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Chauvincourt Manor House, located in Chauvincourt-Provemont, Normandia, is one of the oldest and best preserved houses in the department. Built between 1200 and 1220, it is attributed to Amice de Chauvincourt or his son Eustache. Its architecture combines flint, shale and limestone, with defensive elements such as massive foothills and a latrine turret that is now extinct. The site, sloping on the Bonde valley, includes a 13th century vaulted cellar and a rectangular house modified in the 16th–15th centuries.

The history of the mansion is marked by complex family successions. After the Chauvincourts, he passed to the Gamaches, Douxmesnil, then to the Tertre. In 1577, Philippe de Fumechon and Françoise de Malterre became owners, followed by their daughter Renée and her husband Jacques de Biencourt. The Biencourt family retained the estate until 1778, when it fell to the Belloys by alliance. In the 18th century, the mansion was transformed into a farm, housing workers' housing until the 1950s.

The building underwent three major phases of construction: the medieval foundation (1200–1220) with cellar and turret, a Renaissance re-enactment around 1580, and interior arrangements (roadway, staircase, attic) in the 17th–15th century. Ranked a historic monument in 1961 and 1998, it was restored from 1958 by descendants of the Fumechon-Biencourt. Its particularities include 13th century sled windows, an underground staircase linking the cellar to the cellar, and traces of a medieval fireplace.

The mansion is situated in a preserved rural setting, with a paved courtyard to the south and a north terrace supported by a 17th century flint wall. Additional buildings (grange, entrance pavilion, wall) have disappeared, as evidenced by the cadastral plans of the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, the house, the cellar, the retaining walls and the paving of the courtyard are protected, testifying to its heritage importance in the Norman Vexin.

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