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The Sourdon house, located in the Lion-d Its initial architecture includes a two-tiered house body served by a spiral staircase in a square tower, as well as a wooden barn on a stone base, characteristic of the Renaissance Angelian rural buildings. The tufted openings and brick elements, such as those of the 19th century horse stable, illustrate the evolution of local materials.

Acquired in 1558 by Marc Cerisay, son of a wealthy butcher merchant of Angers who became lord of Pruillé, the house was then part of the estate of the Mas seigneury. The extensions of the following centuries reflect its adaptation to agricultural needs: a dining room and a kitchen with fireplace and tank are added in the seventeenth century, while a horse stable is built in the second half of the nineteenth century. The mansion, transformed into a farm at the beginning of the 19th century after the construction of a nearby castle, passed into the hands of noble families such as the Farcy, the Poulain of the Forestry (from 1778), then the Heliant in 1851.

Ranked a Historic Monument in 1986 for its facades, roofs and barn with wooden panels, the Sourdon house embodies the transition between the seigneurial home and the farm. Its history is linked to the social ascent of Angelian merchants under the Old Regime, then to the adaptation of rural elites to the economic changes of the 18th and 19th centuries. Subsequent restorations preserved remarkable elements, such as the tank chimney on the facade or the symmetrical layout of the barn, which are evidence of local know-how.

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