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This house, located in Salles-la-Source in Occitanie, was reportedly built after the French Revolution, probably on land confiscated from the Church or the monks. Its architecture, dated from the end of the eighteenth century, reflects this hinged period, with elements like two semicircular bays on the ground floor and a salient attic above the second floor. These stylistic details suggest an adaptation of post-revolutionary aesthetic codes, while maintaining traces of the religious heritage of the places.

Ranked a Historic Monument, the protection of its facades and roofs by decree of 28 July 1947 underscores its heritage interest. The house thus embodies the transition from the Old Regime to the 19th century, a period marked by political and social upheavals. Its location in Salles-la-Source, Aveyron, is part of a rural territory where ecclesiastical goods were often redistributed after 1789.

The approximate address, near the church of Saint-Austeroine, reinforces the hypothesis of an origin linked to religious properties. The location, noted as "passable" (level 5/10), indicates minor geographical uncertainty, but the sources (Monumentum, Merimée base) confirm its anchoring in the village. No information is available on its current use (visit, accommodation) or possible historical owners.

The local context of the era evokes a changing rural society, where bourgeois or artisanal houses, like this one, symbolized the rise of new post-revolutionary elites. The Aveyron, then integrated into the Midi-Pyrénées region (now Occitanie), was marked by an agropastoral economy and a built heritage often linked to the Church, before massive secularizations.

The absence of names of manufacturers or sponsors in the sources limits the precise knowledge of its history. Only the architectural elements and the date of inscription in the Historical Monuments allow us to date and value this heritage, a discreet witness of the social transformations of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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