Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ferme de Bigorre
Saint-Front, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Ferme, avec sa cour et son annexe en surplomb (cad. AH 68, 69) : inscription par arrêté du 31 décembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/12/31 : inscrit MH
- Type
- ferme
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Bigorre
- Commune
- Saint-Front
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.99507, 4.09651
- Mérimée reference
- PA43000001
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le hameau de Bigorre est un des rares villages à avoir conservé un important ensemble de chaumières. La ferme correspond au modèle-type de la maison-bloc avec pièce d'habitation et étable au premier niveau et grange à l'étage, probablement construite au 19e siècle ou à la fin du 18e siècle.
English translation
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History
The hamlet of Bigorre is one of the rare villages to have preserved an important ensemble of thatched cottages. The farm corresponds to the model-type of the house-block with living quarters and stable on the first level and barn on the upper floor, probably built in the 19th century or at the end of the 18th century.
Nearby in the register
- Croix de la Pradette, du 16e sièclecroix monumentale1 mi
- Croix du 15e sièclecroix monumentale2 mi
- Maison Sauronmaison2 mi
- Maison Matemaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.