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The medieval peasant home limited to one room at the ground level can usually still be found here and there only through remnants difficult to separate from the fabric of villages and houses built later. Studying it is therefore a difficult challenge. While often built in masonry, some of them used a timber frame. Here we introduce a rare example of a house of this type from the Sologne area, to be found in Lally-en-Val (Loiret); and dated back by dendrochronology to the lower Middle-Ages, which revealed that it had also undergone major remodeling during the 17th century. At the same time, and in order to better understand the way in which such houses were built, we analyze several contemporary building contracts, notarized in the mid-16th century —a type of source, the existence of which Bernard Edeline, the historian and ethnologist of Sologne, had postulated. Another useful contribution of these documents is that they highlight the necessity of sytematically hiring a mason and a carpenter to build these houses, in accordance with the division of labor between distinct crafts which prevailed uduring the Old Regime.