The farmehouse

The farmhouse, which was large for its time (approximately 130 m²), is a building constructed entirely of cob and timber framing. The facade, originally timber-framed, was faced with brick in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At the rear, overlooking the kitchen garden, it still features a magnificent timber-framed facade.

The house is spread over three levels:

• on the ground floor, you enter a large kitchen with a wide fireplace featuring a prominent stove. This is where the whole family ate, alongside the farmhands employed during peak agricultural periods (up to 15 people). This room leads to a storeroom on one side, and on the other, a room known as "the cold room" (la glacière), followed by a dairy.

• a wooden staircase leads to the first floor, which has four bedrooms, 

• and then to the second floor, which houses an attic. Except for one of them, the bedrooms were unheated—you had to tuck yourself deep under the blankets! Washing was done using basins of heated water carried upstairs. Nowadays, a shower has been installed on the ground floor.

To the right of the house, you can see a rainwater harvesting cistern, complete with its stone well-curb and mechanism, which provided water for the kitchen. The water tower was only commissioned between 1956 and 1958.

To the left, a laundry room is housed in a small turret. The laundry featured a large boiler (with a pipe serving as a chimney) for washing clothes and a large tripod to hold the tub. The washing, done once a week, was hung on a long clothesline that stretched far into the meadow behind.

At the rear of the house, a large kitchen garden, partly enclosed by walls (nearly 300 years old) or hedges, fed the entire family: runner beans, bush beans (preserved in glass jars), carrots, salads, beetroots, Brussels sprouts, leeks, and more. This garden reportedly supplied a convent of nuns from the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Bondeville during the 16th and 17th centuries (located where the pharmaceutical company ASPEN stands today). Beyond the kitchen garden lay a large meadow and then orchards containing up to 100 fruit trees.