Engineering:Longère

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Longère in Ernée, Mayenne, France (2006)

Longère is the name (la longère in French) for a long, narrow dwelling, developing along the axis of its peak, typically inhabited by farmers and artisans and typical of the regions of Brittany and Normandy in northwestern France .[1]

Meanings

Sketch of a longère north of Guérande en Loire-Atlantique) (2007)

Longère also means a "long wall" or "gutter wall" of a building, whether for a church or house, in Lower Brittany.

See also

Longère à Botmeur (Finistère) (Monts d'Arrée, Lower Normandy) (2006)
  • Dartmoor longhouse
  • Longhouse
  • Longhouses of the indigenous peoples of North America
  • Neolithic long house
  • Housebarn
  • Quistinic
  • Manoir de Mézarnou
  • Moulin d'Olivet

References