Maison Perrot de Saint-Angel

English translation

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History

House built at the location of the west tower of the former Forges gate and communicating with it. It belonged in the 16th and 17th centuries to the Verrouquier family, which counted among its members several attorneys in jurisdictions and a royal notary. It is especially known for having been the residence of Gilbert-Bon Perrot de Saint-Angel (1756-1847), clerk of the subdelegated intendant at Montluçon, municipal officer then deputy mayor, and especially Montluçon scholar, author of Montluçon. Its civil and religious establishments from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, published by Léonie Duchet in 1913 [G.-B. Perrot de Saint-Angel, Montluçon […], 1913, p. 5, 7, 8, 38 (ill.), 63, 110, 205 and 264]. Bourgeois house of the 15th century, at ground level constructed in blonde arkosic sandstone, pierced in the 18th century by four round-arched openings, raised in timber framing with Saint-Andrew's cross on corbelling at the first floor. The roof, modified by the addition of a through window, was covered with slate in the 19th century. The half-tower adjoining the house is the last remnant, covered with a slate roof in the 19th century, of the Forges gate which was one of four fortified gates pierced in the enclosure of the town of Montluçon, in the late Middle Ages.