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