Hôtel d'Arnaud de Brucelles

English translation

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History

Facade of Gothic style, built in timber framing crisscrossed in X, the intervals being laid in brick. In the courtyard of this house are found a staircase tower and galleries with balusters. In three rows corresponding to the three storeys of the main dwelling, above the ground floor, these galleries are covered with coffered vaults adorned with fleurons. They connect the staircase to a second body of dwelling on which open large windows framed with fluted pilasters. The Renaissance tower, built around 1532 by the capitoul Arnaud de Brucelles, presents, on a hexagonal plan, seven storeys terminated by arcading of false machicolations, crowned by an open-work stone balustrade. The door, bearing the arms of the capitoul, is surmounted by six windows above which rise figures of half-length that stand out against the bricks.