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Origin and history

The house located at 6 Rue de Verdun in Saint-Jean-d'Angély is a building typical of 16th century civil architecture. It is distinguished by its structure in apparent wood panels, characteristic of the urban buildings of this period. The building includes a ground floor and two floors in corbellation, a common technique to gain space in medieval and renaissant cities.

Classified as a Historic Monument, this house saw its street façade and roof protected by a registration order dated 26 August 1943. This status demonstrates its heritage importance, although the available archives do not specify the specific reasons for this protection. The exact location, confirmed by the Mérimée base, places the monument in the city centre of Saint-Jean-d-Angely, in Charente-Maritime.

Wood-paned houses such as this one reflect the urban lifestyles of the 16th and 17th centuries, where commercial and craft activities often occupied the ground floor, while the floors served as housing. Their preservation now allows us to study the evolution of construction techniques and the social organization of the cities of western France during the Renaissance.

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