Immeuble de Surrel

English translation

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History

Originally, the house consisted of two independent buildings, later united at the far end of the courtyard that separated them. Built in the 14th century, the left wing shows a door of that period which has retained its leaf. Erected approximately a century later, the right wing possesses a late Gothic window on the first floor, moulded and sculpted. The door dated 1762 confirms the alterations to this wing in the classical period. The two buildings were united at the end of the 18th century by a wing which closes the courtyard and which is decorated with two balconies with wrought-iron railings. The portal of the early 17th century, ornamented with diamond points, which unites the street façades, comes from the old chapel of the Carmelites, as do the pillars and wheel-stops along the right wing. This wing extends along a terraced garden by a building of outbuildings. The room situated at its extremity, on the first floor, was decorated in the 18th century with painted woodwork hung with canvases representing hunting scenes and fantastic landscapes. All these elements testify to the evolution of the taste of Aurillac's cultivated bourgeoisie over more than two centuries.