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The Cormier mansion, located in the rural commune of Frazé en Eure-et-Loir, illustrates the Percherian architecture of the 16th and 17th centuries. Its entrance porch, dated 1572, and master house reflect the successive phases of its construction. This manor house, surrounded by ditches and organised around a central courtyard, embodies the classic model of the seigneurial houses of the region, adapted to both defence and agricultural life.

The entrance porch, the most remarkable element of the site, houses a hanging screw staircase and a large room upstairs, characteristic of the manor houses of this time. The most recent farm buildings appeared on the 1810 cadastre, with the exception of the barn. The whole, partially inscribed in the Historical Monuments in 1995 (including the entrance pavilion), reflects the evolution of the residential and economic needs of the noble or bourgeois families of the Perch between Renaissance and modern times.

Fraze, a picturesque village ranked among the most beautiful in Perche, is part of a territory marked by feudal and rural history. The Cormier mansion, like other local buildings (castle, Notre-Dame church), is part of this dense architectural heritage, reflecting the social and economic dynamics of the region. Its inscription is part of a desire to preserve the material testimonies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, periods of transition between the Middle Ages and modern times in the Centre-Val de Loire.

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