Researching the history of the house is something we shall get into later. In the meantime, we do have a stone lintel bearing the date 1879, which was discovered during renovation by the previous owner, and which we thought would indicate the date the house was built.

That was until, during the course of the St George's Day celebration in St Maigner in 2007 (yes, we do celebrate St George as the patron saint of St Maigner), we saw the official plan of the commune of St Maigner on display. This plan was marked as 'completed in 1830'. Extracting the area of Beaugut (then spelled Bogut), it was as below.

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Notice that the two buildings at the top of the plan are no longer in existence, and that the ruined building at the bottom of the Google Earth image did not exist 180 years ago.

Sadly, we don't have any old images of the house. However, that on the left was taken early in 2001, when the previous owner bought the place as "in need of renovation", and the one on the right was taken in August, 2008. Of course, most of the work that was done on the house was on the inside, but we have no interior shots before those taken when it was sold to us, at which time practically all the work had been done.

If we manage to find any more information, it will appear here