Ancien hôtel de Rougé, hôtel Vic de Pontgibaud

English translation

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History

Town house, dating from the 1800s, opening to the East onto a large English-style park. The street-facing façade presents a ground floor and two storeys. In the middle of the ground floor opens, under a depressed arch with projecting keystone, a carriage gate closed by two heavy moulded wooden doors. To the right of this street façade, a brick construction, for use as outbuildings, opens by a 17th-century door, with round arch loaded at its keystone with a scroll clasp, with pilaster-shaped jambs and bossage surround. The courtyard façade of the main dwelling presents pink and brown brick facing with lozenge decoration. Two single-storey wings for use as stables and outbuildings return on this façade. A rectangular staircase cage is contained in the north-east part of the main dwelling, opening onto the ground-floor corridor established between two carriage gates. The wrought-iron railing presents a series of vertical motifs rounded at the top where they inscribe a floret with double corolla from which escapes a pistil turned downwards, and terminated at their lower part by two confronted volutes. The first-floor landing opens onto two salons with stucco decoration in panels loaded with scroll clasps and flower garlands. The panels above doors or mirrors are decorated with urns or vases, from which escape vegetable scrolls. Their frame is formed by a gilded bead of Louis XVI style. The angles are clasped with a medallion inscribing a flower bouquet. The second salon has parquet flooring with leaves.