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Angers House is a typical example of medieval urban housing, built in the first half of the 16th century. It is distinguished by its unique housing body, without an inner courtyard, and its two-paned roof complete with a lateral appentis. The facades, made of wood with torchi hurdles, open on two streets, while the ground floor on Rue Pinte is in shale. The vaulted basement in a cradle, equipped with tufts, and the original staircase (from the first floor) bear witness to traditional constructive techniques.

Older masonry jobs, visible on Pinte Street, suggest an earlier occupation of the site. The chimneys, added in the 18th century, reflect subsequent changes to adapt housing to the lifestyles of the era. The staircase access to the first floor, rebuilt in the 20th century, marks a modern intervention in a building otherwise preserved. The façade, classified as Historic Monument in 1921, highlights the heritage value of this house, representative of the Angelian architecture.

Located at the corner of Beaurepaire and Pinte streets, the house combines defensive elements (pignon sur rue) and domestic (inner distribution around the staircase). Its present state, despite ad hoc transformations, offers an overview of the bourgeois or artisanal houses of the Renaissance in Pays de la Loire, where wood and local stone (tuffeau, schist) dominated the constructions.

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