Hôtel de Nayrac

English translation

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History

Renaissance edifice, built on the classical plan of the private mansions of the mid-16th century with three buildings of equal importance bordering three sides of a square courtyard of honour of which the fourth side, facing the street, is closed by a wall in the axis of which opens a monumental portal. The arrangement of the three façades facing the courtyard is similar: ground floor lit by three mullioned and transomed windows; pilasters, cornices and pediments. On the right wing, a monumental door decorated with double pilasters, cornice, cut pediment, carved cartouche, is placed in the axis, responds to the windows of the other faces and gives access to the interiors. The noble storey is also pierced by mullioned and transomed windows. The spandrels, the walls, the infills are in exposed brick with "ribbon" joints. A lower storey crowns the edifice, lit by a single window with central mullion, without transom. Turrets in a quarter circle, rising on pendentives from the floor of the first storey, occupy the angles at the back of the courtyard. A belvedere tower surmounts the roof of the right wing and recalls the traditions of Italian Renaissance. Facing the street, the face of the right wing is decorated on its right side by a small rectangular loggia rising in corbelling from the floor of the first storey. The construction of the façades facing the street is identical to that of the façades facing the courtyard. The monumental portal facing the street, in round arch, is flanked by double pilasters with rustication and crowned with a cornice with frieze, cut pediment and central motif of which only the beginning remains.