Hôtel d'Aubière (ou de Pierrefitte)

English translation

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History

The street frontage has two storeys. On the ground floor, access is via a large portal with depressed arch, with rustication and moulded with a wide cavetto. The key is formed by an imposing dressed stone block. The varnished wooden door has two leaves. Each leaf consists of two moulded panels. The upper panels, decorated with mouldings in the Louis XV style, include ironwork, and notably a wrought-iron door knocker in the form of a ring. Above a projecting moulded lintel is the transom decorated with mouldings and featuring in its centre a fixed window of oval form. Besides this portal, the ground floor has a large depressed arch opening. The windows are decorated with wrought-iron balconies formed of scrolls, arranged symmetrically with respect to a central motif. The joinery is also of the period. In the inner courtyard, a fine door with pointed arch whose prismatic mouldings of the frame rest on bases. The tympanum of this Gothic door is decorated with an escutcheon bearing the arms of Pierrefite. Two little angels, whose dresses with fringed edges draw very elaborate curves, support it. A third crowns it.