Description
La Ferme de Bourlatier is one of the most beautiful slate roof barns (phonolites) in the Montagne Ardéchoise, measuring 51×12.40 m overall. One enters the barn through an arch, located to the west near the rise of the barn.
The arcas is a small porch covered by a slate roof.
We must see its fenière (barn where the hay was housed) with 35 tenailhs (fir crossbowmen) and the proportions of a cathedral: it occupies practically two-thirds of the volume of the building, while the dwelling itself, barely the eighth, and still caught on the stable.
The pillars of the barn, prisms of monolithic basalt, support the main beam, called chareyre, on which rest the beams of the floor of the fenière.
It is therefore a particularly representative specimen of a barn founded on pasture and laid out to shelter livestock. It cannot be dissociated from the CLapas barn, which faces it, still in operation, from that of Liberte, which retains its vaulted stable, and that of Ourseyre in ruins.
The name of Bourlatier appears for the first time in 1543, when Louis Lestrange, lord of the place, carries out a transaction with the Charterhouse of Bonnefoy. A fortified house called "castle" took place there.
In 1643 Charles de Saint Nectaire, husband of Marie Hautefort-Lestrange and Viscount of Lestrange, Baron of Boulogne and Privas of the head (by will) of his wife, had four noble barns built on this site, Bourlatier, Clapas, Liberte and Ourseyre. The barn of Bourlatier, communicating with the castle survived him. In 1767 there was a total renovation of the tenailhs of the fenière, whereas in 1762, the castle was only "hovels" and "rubble", the traces of which can be guessed in the extension of the North-West return.
Restored on the initiative of the Liger association, under the care of the General Council of the Ardèche, and managed by the Syndicat Mixte de la Montagne Ardéchoise, it has become a place for exhibitions and events.
Opening
From 29 / 04 to 05 / 11.
Spring and autumn holidays: Wednesday to Sunday - 14 p.m. to 30 p.m. May / June: Wednesday to Friday - 17 p.m. to 30 p.m. / Saturday, Sunday - 14 a.m. to 30 p.m. Open Monday May 17, May 30, May 10 (Pentecost) from 30 a.m. to 18 p.m. July / August from July 1 to August 8, 29 days a week from 10:30 a.m. to 18 p.m. September: Wednesday - 01:27 p.m. to 7:7 p.m. / Saturday, Sunday - 10 p.m. to 30 p.m. October: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday - 18:14 p.m. to 30:17 p.m.
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