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Origin and history

The Caron House, classified as a Historic Monument, took its present form in the 1830s. This ambitious architectural project is organised on both sides of the national road through Dampierre. To the south, the property includes an entrance gate, the main house, a courtyard of the communes and an adjacent building to the east, while the park and gardens extend over the slope. Symmetry also dominates north of the road, where three large communal buildings frame a courtyard closed by a central gate gate. These provisions reflect the importance attached to the harmony of volumes and the functional distribution of spaces.

Inside, the house body retains remarkable decorative elements, such as a stairwell and painted corridors. Several rooms still house marble fireplaces as well as period wallpapers, testimonies of the bourgeois refinement of the 19th century. These details, combined with the rigour of the exterior design, underline the social status of the owners and their desire to assert a certain provincial elegance.

Together, including the main house body, the facades and roofs of the 19th century buildings, the fences and a basin, was included in the inventory of Historic Monuments by order of 19 July 2006. This protection recognizes the heritage value of a site where residential architecture interacts with its landscape environment, typical of bourgeois achievements of the first half of the 19th century.

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