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Hôtel d'Albiat ou Maison des Centaures, à Montferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Hôtel d'Albiat ou Maison des Centaures : inscription par arrêté du 12 novembre 1926
Protection dates
1926/11/12 : inscrit MH
Type
maison
Main period of construction
15e siècle, 4e quart 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
11, anciennement Fontaine (rue de la) rue Jules-Guesde
Lieu-dit
faubourg de Montferrand
Commune
Clermont-Ferrand
Département
Puy-de-Dôme
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.79291, 3.11344
Mérimée reference
PA00092048

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Maison également dite des Centaures à cause des centaures servant de support à l'écu sculpté sur la porte d'escalier. Sur la rue, une porte ouverte sous un arc en anse de panier orné de moulures prismatiques, donne accès sur un couloir menant à la cour. A gauche de cette cour se trouve une tourelle d'escalier polygonale dont la porte rectangulaire sous un arc en tiers point est accompagnée de moulures prismatiques. Dans le tympan est sculpté un écu aux armes des D'Albiat. La tourelle contient un escalier à vis. A l'est, la cour est fermée par un corps de logis du 16e siècle, daté par les petits pilastres qui l'ornent.

English translation

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House also called the House of the Centaurs because of the centaurs serving as support to the coat of arms carved on the staircase door. On the street, a door opened under a basket-handle arch decorated with prismatic mouldings, gives access to a corridor leading to the courtyard. To the left of this courtyard is found a polygonal turret-staircase whose rectangular door under a pointed arch is accompanied by prismatic mouldings. In the tympanum is carved a shield with the arms of D'Albiat. The turret contains a spiral staircase. To the east, the courtyard is closed by a main dwelling of the 16th century, dated by the small pilasters which ornament it.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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