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The house Le Coudray, located in Forges de Lanouée in Brittany, is a historical monument dating from the 2nd quarter of the 17th century. This house is part of an alignment of four houses, facing south. Its square plan, with one room per floor, is served by a staircase screw to the loose monoxyl steps. The lintel of the skylight bears an engraved date, 1630, as well as an undecrypted inscription, while the pediment is adorned with a chalice. The construction mixes schist bellows and moulure granite bays, with architectural details such as chamfers and doucins.

The structure of the house consists of two crossbow farms, one fork punch and one roll-up, typical of the techniques of the period. The facades and roofs, protected since 1996, illustrate a preserved local know-how. The ground floor and the chamfered beams ceilings reinforce its authenticity. This type of house, modest but neat, reflects the rural habitat Breton of the seventeenth century, where local materials (schist, granite) dominated.

The Le Coudray house, although little documented about its occupants, bears witness to the spatial and social organization of the Breton countryside of the time. Home alignments suggest a structured community life, where each home probably housed a peasant or artisanal family. Religious ornamentation (calice) could indicate a connection with the local parish or a particular devotion of the owners, running in an area deeply marked by Catholicism after the Counter-Reform.

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