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Chamberet's Renaissance mansion, now listed as a Historic Monument, illustrates an architectural transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Built on a typical medieval plane (rectangular house bodies with central stair tower in protruding), it features Renaissance decorative elements, such as the superimposed pilasters of its turret, inspired by the classical repertoire. The building, erected in the second half of the 16th century, would have suffered damage during the fire of the village in 1590, before being partially restored in the early 17th century.

The central core screw staircase originally served two wings, East and West, the doors of which were later walled to the west. The ground floor of the East House preserves a 16th century kitchen, with its arched fireplace and integrated oven. Upstairs, a large fireplace, now masked by 19th-century woodwork, bears witness to an older stone structure. The mansion, transformed into a presbytery at the end of the 19th century by architect Bardon, was then enlarged by an adjacent house and a Maltese cross carved on the fence wall.

The 19th century restoration works, although partially modifying the building, allowed its preservation. Ranked by arrest in 1992, the mansion now includes the main body, its stair tower, the adjacent house and the entrance gate. Its history reflects the architectural and social evolutions of the Corrèze, between Renaissance and modern times.

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