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The Manor House of the Gabertie, located in Thézac (Lot-et-Garonne), is an austere building built on the edge of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It consists of two L-shaped buildings, organized around a square courtyard whose fence has disappeared. The cut stone walls and hollow tile roofs reflect a sober architecture, marked by a crib vaulted porch and a defensive scald at the east corner. The main house, with vaulted rooms, was initially connected to a lower building body, now redesigned. A well of 30 meters deep, with margins dated 1720, and an 18th century barn-stable complete the whole.

The mansion was reportedly erected for the Protestant Guilhem family, a nobility of dress located near Tournon. A will of 1690 attests to his possession by Jean de Guilhem and his wife Sara de Lard. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the estate moved to Abraham de Faure, lieutenant general of police of Tournon, who undertook work there: reconstruction of the well margin (1720), drilling of new openings (including a door dated 1721), and addition of a barn-stable. The manor house, transformed into a farm, was partially destroyed before being restored in the 1970s-1980s by its current owner.

Ranked a Historic Monument in 1996, the Manor House of the Gabertia illustrates the evolution of a seigneurial residence in agricultural estate. Its protected elements include the facades, the roofs of the communes, the well, the oven, and the remains of the courtyard fence. The northeast wing, today on the ground floor, has lost its original layout, but retains two superimposed chimneys incorporated into the south-east house wall. The nearby farmhouse, restored at the same time, bears witness to the functional unity of the site throughout the centuries.

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