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The house of Tréguier, built at the end of the 15th century at the top of Renan Street, is a characteristic example of the artisanal and commercial dwelling of the time. Its wooden panel facade, with two floors in corbellation supported by beams and poles, inserts between side walls in schist bellow. The ground floor, widely open to the ground, suggests commercial use, while the floors housed rooms. The structure is reinforced by crosses of Saint Andrew, and the small original bays, clogged in the 16th or 17th centuries, were replaced by semi-twined crosses in the centre of the facade.

Inside, the distribution partially retains its original layout: a vaulted basement serving as a cellar, an old shop on street and a kitchen room on courtyard on the ground floor, as well as two bedrooms on the floors. A central split wall is still in place, but the stairway turning back, the chimneys and the insulation floor of the basement shop were changed or recast, especially in the 19th century. The roof, with a high stack extended by a pointed part, highlights the axis of the construction.

Classified as a Historical Monument in 1964 for its facades and roofs, this house illustrates the Breton civil architecture of the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Its present state reflects successive adaptations, such as the closure of medieval bays or the transformation of commercial space, while preserving original structural elements. The location on Place Notre-Dame-de-Coatcolvezou (or rue Ernest Renan) confirms its integration into the historical urban fabric of Tréguier, a city marked by its commercial and religious past.

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