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Rural house and castle
Apart from the domaine-locaturiers association and the "fermette", the rural habitat of the Centre region also included:
- in the Sancerre area, the vinegrower's house, either a single room above an underground cellar, or a "longère" with an added cellar at the back;
- in the Val d'Orléans, the closerie, a two-storied house built by a bourgeois town-dweller, with accomodation for himself at upper-floor level and for the closier or hired labourer at ground-floor level;
- in the "îles" of the lower-Touraine flood plains, the hemp-grower's one-room house with walls of tuffeau or soft limestone under a two-sided roof of flat clay tiles (hemp being stored in the loft and

dried up in an oven leaning against a gable);
- along the Loire river, the waterman's bourgeois-looking house built of cut stone, with a ground floor used as a storage place topped by living quarters with an external staircase;
- in Sologne, the gamekeeper's two-roomed brick house, built by a castle owner.

Extrait : © Christian Lassure

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