On a base of Tabor stone, the house rises on two levels of half-timbering, to which is added a last level in the mansard. On the first floor, a group of small windows are set in the wood panelling to create a vast opening that is essential to provide light as this façade is to the north. Its side façade is flanked by the passage that leads to the lateral door of the parish church. It can be assumed that when part of the abbey buildings were destroyed during the Hundred Years' War or the Wars of Religion, this plot was part of the abbey's hold in the heart of the village.
Colonel Macon Gray Williams (Warsaw, Alaska 1901-Clairac 1996), an American from Ohio who trained as an architect and served in the army during the Second World War, moved to Clairac in the early 1960s with his French wife, Suzanne Voisin (who died in 2012), whom he met when she was a nurse at the Châteauroux air base where he was a colonel. Previously, as a member of the US Air Force, he had served with the Allied Forces in Wiesbaden. Among his many hobbies, he also indulged in the art of ceramics and drawing; anyone who passed his house on the way down to the beach could take a look through the glass roof of his studio. Fascinated by Clairac's vernacular architecture, he devoted himself to the restoration of the house he had bought in rue Puzoque; for several years, he was seen on his scaffolding, instruments in hand, knocking down the old plaster and filling in the brick half-timbering.
Like his grandfather Alexandre de Lalobbe, Roger Tramond (1904-1978) was both an officer (air force) and a painter. When he retired to his property in Sinange, he found time to indulge in this hobby again, as this delicate watercolour shows. He was also involved in various local works and associations, including the famous Semaine musicale de Clairac of which he was one of the initiators alongside the Roubet family.
