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Hotel Les Rives is a building in Falaise, Calvados, built between 1782 and 1786. It is a farm with a closed courtyard typical of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, where all buildings surround an inner courtyard. The openings are facing inward, and the whole includes a barn, a bassyard, a pigeon house, and a small stone house. The terrain, crossed by a ru, once housed an orchard and a nursery according to plans of 1776.

The facades and roofs of the hotel have been listed as historical monuments since 7 December 1967. The site is extended by agricultural outbuildings, including a stone barn with an apple press, and a pond fed by a residual stream from the old alluvial Marescot terrace. These elements illustrate the rural organization of the time, mixing noble habitat with agricultural exploitation.

The agricultural parts date from the 3rd quarter of the 17th century, with a bay dated 1674, and were redesigned in 1786, as evidenced by a skylight. The whole reflects the architectural and functional evolution of a seigneurial or bourgeois property in Normandy at the end of the Ancien Régime.

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