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Lalande House, located in Brive-la-Gaillarde, is an architectural complex composed of two houses. The first, overlooking Rue de Corrèze, includes a shop on the ground floor and two square floors. Its bays on the 1st and 2nd floors are adorned with 18th century ironwork forebodys, while the rumped roof is pierced with skylights with masonry fronts. A well, integrated into the wall of refend, dates from the oldest part of the seventeenth century. The second house, on the boulevard Général-Koenig, features an elevated ground floor accessible by an external staircase, with a roof with long broken panels and a vaulted basement in a cradle.

Acquired in 1725 by the Lalande family, the property included a body of houses on the street and a building on a courtyard, backed by ramparts, housing an oil press (of which only remains remains). From the 17th century remain a part of the house on the courtyard side, the structure of the entrance hall with its pavement, and a kitchen fireplace. In the middle of the 18th century, Antoine Lalande, whose interlaced initials adorn the ironwork of the facade, reshaped the house: the new facade is plated on the old structure, and the interior spaces are redeveloped. The staircase dates from the 19th century.

Around 1850, the former outbuilding on courtyard was transformed into a house after the demolition of the ramparts, offering two illuminated facades and a private garden. The Lalande family, which had long owned the neighbouring parcels, also bought the chapel Saint-Liberal in 1791 as a national property, before returning it to the diocese in 1876. However, the archives do not confirm whether adjacent dependencies (parcelles 121 and 122) were built by this family.

The facade decorated with balconies, characteristic of 18th century civil architecture, has been protected since 1932 by an inscription to the Historical Monuments. This building illustrates the evolution of bourgeois dwellings between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, mixing medieval heritage (reparts), urban transformations and adaptations to residential needs.

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