Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison dite Maison Laguens
Rieux-Volvestre, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. E 505) : inscription par arrêté du 18 juillet 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/07/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de l'Evêché
- Commune
- Rieux-Volvestre
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.25805, 1.20225
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094437
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La maison présente une tour hexagonale coiffée d'une pyramide en briques et d'un chemin de ronde crénelé. Portes à linteaux en accolade. Façade à colombage côté cour, et façade 18e siècle côté rue, décorée de balcons en fer forgé. Plusieurs dessus de portes sont décorés de linteaux ouvragés, pierres sculptées ou armoiries.
English translation
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History
The house presents a hexagonal tower topped with a brick pyramid and a crenellated parapet walk. Doors with accolade lintels. Timber-framed façade on the courtyard side, and 18th-century façade on the street side, decorated with wrought iron balconies. Several door lintels are decorated with worked lintels, sculpted stones or coats of arms.
Nearby in the register
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancienne cathédrale Sainte-Mariecathédraleunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.