THE GREAT FARMHOUSE
At the far end of the courtyard, the Great farmhouse stands on two floors and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, and has dormer windows. By its imposing size, it shows how important the agricultural activity of the estate used to be.
Its vast granary, under an ancient roof trussing, used to contain the taxes for the fief of which Banizette was the centre. It is reached by a rare spiral staircase with wooden steps, the structural core dating from the 16th or 17th century.

THE OUTBUILDINGS
To the south of the courtyard can be found the outhouses : firstly, a long building with a central porch above which is a square tower, the dovecote. It contains a very ancient double bread oven, with all its traditional material. The premises are topped by an attic where bundles of wood and chestnuts were left to dry.
A stable for the riding horses with four loose-boxes. The woodshed where the firewood was sawn and kept. Two pigsties and a henhouse.

THE FARM
The farm or small farmhouse was used as a dwelling for a tenant farmer or a labourer and his family.
This building, which has a cellar and a pigsty annexed, was heightened at the end of the 19th century to enable an increase in the amount of space for the family; the habit of sleeping in the cowsheds becoming less and less common.

THE BARN-COWSHED
The Barn-cowshed of the Auvergne type mesures about 30 meters long. The construction is traditional.
On the lower level can be found the cowshed; access for the cattle was through a double door opening onto the south gable whereas the sheep entered the cowshed through two single doors on the East façade.
On the upper level was the barn from which the hay was thrown down into the cowshed.

THE MILL
A man-made mill pond covers over more than one thousand metres on the hillside, offers, along the small valley, a romantic landscape amongst the trees. It emerges into a lock, where the retained water is intended to regulate the waterfall during the hours that the mill is in function.
The mill can be found in the Napoleonic cadastre in 1830 with another hemp mill. But it is certain that the flour mill existed already in the 15th century.

At the end of the 19th century, the mill which was very active, suffered during drought periods. The lack of water made it difficult to cope with the volume of grain to be ground. It was therefore decided to complete the installation with an oil-fired engine which enabled the mill to continue turning even when the water in the lock had dried up.

But at the begining of the 20th century, round about 1907, a misfunction of this engine caused a fire which destroyed the upper part of the mill. The following year, the mill was then rebuilt and an extra floor added. At the same time it was equipped with a turbine and a generator . This allowed the mill to generate the estate's electricity in the evenings.