Hôtel de Chaumeils (ou hôtel Dulac de Fugères)

English translation

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History

This house would date back to the 13th century. The arcades with pointed arches still remaining must have opened onto shops from that period. However, the building could date from the 12th century, as evidenced by a small column with its capital on the first floor. In the 16th century, construction of the staircase turret. From the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, the owners enlarged the house and gave it the appearance it has retained with panelling, coved ceilings... Until the end of the 19th century, the stable preserved two bas-reliefs by Vaneau which were sold at that time to the Louvre. The architecture of the house has retained traces of the 12th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The 12th-century small column, on the first floor of the Rochetaille façade, appears to rest with its base on a cornice dominating the ground floor carried by pointed arches which must have followed the entire façade. On the first floor, a kind of blind arched window is composed of a mosaic of black and white squares which appears Romanesque. Above, the old facing marks a very clear resumption during the raising of the 16th century with the turret. It presents small windows with multiple prismatic mouldings, a basket-handle door now walled up, topped by a battered escutcheon. The Polignac façade comprises a chamfered corner of the 18th century connecting the tower to the 17th-century façade with its entrance door with panelling. Inside 18th-century decoration: great hall, coved ceilings, fireplaces, panelling, stucco decoration.