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Maison-Tour

Cahors, Lot, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Maison-Tour (cad. C.D. 106) : inscription par arrêté du 23 mai 1991
Protection dates
1991/05/23 : inscrit MH
Type
maison
Main period of construction
2e moitié 13e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
2 rue du Four-Sainte-Catherine
Commune
Cahors
Département
Lot
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Coordinates
44.44914, 1.44226
Mérimée reference
PA00095302

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La maison appartenait au collège Pélégri, fondé en 1365. L'édifice se présente comme une maison-tour, de plan barlong. Il compte sept niveaux, mais le bâtiment médiéval n'en comportait que cinq. Le quatrième niveau correspond au premier niveau médiéval. Fenêtres géminées. Le rez-de-chaussée côté nord a été prolongé par un four très important. Au premier étage d'origine, des traces d'enduit peint d'un faux-appareil ont été décelées.

English translation

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The house belonged to the Pélégri college, founded in 1365. The building presents itself as a house-tower, of oblong plan. It comprises seven levels, but the medieval building had only five. The fourth level corresponds to the first medieval level. Twin windows. The ground floor on the north side was extended by a very large oven. On the first original storey, traces of rendered paint depicting a false-ashlar have been detected.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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