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The house, built between 1510 and 1520 for the Desprez family, is a typical example of an Angeline Renaissance civil architecture. Its narrow facade, entirely made of wood, has two square floors and two attic floors, with a sculpted decoration on poles and sandstones. A monumental skylight illuminates the attic, while the elevation on courtyard, partially rebuilt in the eighteenth century, mixes schist and tuffeau. The original front, decorated with arches in braid, was restored in 1995.

The property changed hands several times: it passed by marriage to Étienne Regnard, a drapier merchant, and was sold in 1559 to canon Jean de la Barre. In the 17th century, it belonged to Pierre Goubault, master surgeon. In the 18th century, major changes transformed the posterior elevation, raised the height and added a Louis XVI balcony, which was removed during the 1995 restoration. The latter allowed to reconstitute the windows and highlight traces of polychromy.

Classified as a Historic Monument in 1921 for its façade, the house bears inscriptions recalling its restoration (MCMXCV) and its address (XXI). His name "Adam and Eve" seems recent and not historical. The dendrochronological analyses confirm its construction at the very beginning of the 16th century, giving a rare testimony of the bourgeois Angelian habitat of that time.

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