Former metallurgical plant

A metallurgical plant was set up on the Boutancourt stream by Jean-Nicolas Gendarme in 1830. It was called the Algiers forge in reference to the capture of the town that same year. It had two puddler furnaces, a refinery fire and hammers. When Gendarme died, the Boutancourt factory passed to his grandson Hannonet de la Grange, and in 1865 to Société E. Muaux et Cie, which also owned the factory in Flize. In 1862, housing was added to the production building. In 1868, it was sold to Baudry, then successively transformed into a sawmill by Pouplier, into an ironworks from 1914 and finally into a taillanderie by Boxberger from 1931. The site is currently occupied by a craftsman.

The manufacturing workshop and the one-storey, square workers' accommodation are built of rubble stone and limestone ashlar; the roofs are long-sloped (half-hipped for the forge), and the exposed timber frames are covered with mechanical tiles. The small building housing the pond winnowing system is made of brick.