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Luxury home - Between Montpellier and Nîmes, an ancient 7-hectare agricultural estate with a 17th-century mas and a master’s house, outbuildings and a 19th-century winery. Less than 1 km from Quissac, the 7-hectare estate extends to the east and west, on both sides of four buildings grouped into a private hamlet: a winery, a large farm known as “the grand mas”, a dovecote and the winegrower’s residence. Access to the property is via the road that serves the old farmyard. The master’s house, reached through the countryside, is located opposite this departmental road, facing the vineyards and woods. Strongly testifying, through the articulation of its elements, to former viticultural activity, the property has clearly known several destinies. An artisanal sericulture activity may have preceded viticulture, before land subdivisions put a stop to it. And other uses followed—thus the old winery has been transformed today into workshops and reception rooms. On the foothills of the Cévennes, the construction of the buildings, often austere, obeys only the laws that labor and rural living could dictate over time. The periods of construction vary from one element to another and mainly range from the early to the late 19th century, with architectural interventions also aimed at unifying the ensemble in the 20th and 21st centuries. The master’s house, built in the late 19th century, curiously adopted the model of the local magnaneries, sober and largely open to the south. The winery, from the same period, was rearranged after a roof collapse of the central part. The “grand mas,” which was probably a rural dwelling with a few vaulted ground-floor rooms, provides a clear example of construction carried out on earlier remains, probably from the late 17th century or the early 18th century. The dovecote, in red bricks, built on the roof of dependencies used as living spaces, dates from the early 20th century. It is surrounded by a series of small adjoining houses that are currently rental units. The whole, whose appeal is heightened by the preservation of the natural environment from various damages, offers an interesting testimony to the daily life of Cévenol viticulture. Its contemporary rehabilitation, unfinished in places, has endowed it with a certain coherence.