House à Gabarret dans les Landes

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Origin and history

Gabarret House is a 16th-century historical monument in the municipality of Landes. A former seigneurial residence, it is distinguished by its wood-paned facades, a constructive technique used at the time. The ground floor, made of bricks, supports a corbelled floor, reinforced by a grid of beams. The hurdles, a mixture of plaster and bricks, are sometimes arranged in a bias to imitate an oblivious apparatus, while a stone chaining consolidates the angles.

The front on courtyard ends with a genoese cornice, and the whole is covered with a roof in canal tiles. Classified as a Historical Monument, the protection specifically concerns facades and roofs on street, registered by decree of 17 May 1977. The house, now privately owned, reflects Renaissance civil architecture in southwestern France, mixing local materials and craftsmanship.

Gabarret, located in the present-day New Aquitaine, was at that time an area marked by the influence of the local lords and trade, notably via the road of Armagnac. Wood-paned houses, like this one, served both as a residence and as a symbol of social status for local elites. Their construction also met practical needs, such as modularity of spaces and weather resistance.

The building thus combines defensive elements inherited from the Middle Ages (stone chaining) and aesthetic innovations of the Renaissance (cornry, oblivious apparatus). Its state of conservation and its location make it a rare testimony of the rural seigneurial habitat of this period in the Landes.

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