Continuing along the Rue de l'Eglise, at no. 4, on the left after the right-hand bend, you will see an old building dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, opening onto a courtyard surrounded by high stone walls covered in lava stone.|It could be the site of the moat of the fortified house built in 1228 under the church by Rénier de Nogent on the site of the Tilchâtel tower, then immediately destroyed by episcopal order. Its former name of Rue des Tournoisiens in 1491 (derived from the Old French Tornoir = tower), seems to confirm the fact.|The facade of the large building overlooking the courtyard was "re-clad" in the 18th century with a facade in the fashion of the time, extended by one metre over the courtyard with roof dormers. A cornice can still be seen on the left gable, designed to protect the pigeons housed at the back of the nesting hole from predators.
behind the upper flight hole. On the right, note the large stonework of the façade of the dwelling house on the street, with its half-hipped roof, whose upstairs accommodation surmounts two large barns with arched doorways opposite, with a cellar of the same design at the rear.| Is this house the oldest curacy in the village? From 1670, this house was owned by the Varaigne (or Devaraignes) family, then by the Chambley and Chauvot families from Langres, before falling into the hands of the Clère family from Cohons, whose last occupant was Marie-Louise, widow of Fernand Clère.
L'ancienne cure de Cohons
