Ancien hôtel des Ducs de Bouillon

English translation

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History

This 15th-century hotel, whose façade was reworked in the 17th, served as residence for the lords of the place, Dukes of Bouillon. The edifice presents itself as a large rectangular building with three storeys. On the ground floor, a round arch door with rustication gives access to a corridor. On each side of this are found two lower doors, with segmental arch and sculpted rustication. On the first floor, three windows with projecting moulded aprons, with moulded jambs with prismatic bases, surmounted by capitals, on which rests the lintel. The two wider windows are geminate and must have had crosswindows with mullions. Above the buttress supporting the north-east corner is found a round turret in corbel on an ornamental cul-de-lampe, at its lower part, with a sculptured motif representing a head of a chubby cherub between two wings. This turret terminates in the form of a dome surmounted by a ball.