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Maisons à pans de bois

Bourges, Cher, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Les façades et les toitures (cad. 0 492, 493) : inscription par arrêté du 12 juillet 1965
Protection dates
1965/07/12 : inscrit MH
Type
maison
Main period of construction
limite 15e siècle 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
7, 9 rue Jean-Girard ; anciennement 7, 9 rue Edouard-Vaillant
Commune
Bourges
Département
Cher
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.08604, 2.39836
Mérimée reference
PA00096708

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1707 map "La Province de Berry. La Generalite de Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Cette maison a été construite après l'incendie de 1487. Après cette catastrophe, les maisons furent reconstruites en pan de bois mais avec des saillies de façade très peu prononcées pour éviter la transmission du feu d'un côté de la rue à l'autre. L'immeuble actuel est composé de deux maisons dont les pignons sur rue sont juxtaposés. Aux rez-de-chaussées, les anciennes boutiques médiévales ont été transformées en salle de restaurant à l'époque moderne. Les deux étages et les combles ont gardé en façade leur pan de bois apparent, formé de croisillons aux mailles losangées et serrées.

English translation

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This house was built after the fire of 1487. After this catastrophe, houses were rebuilt in timber framing but with very little pronounced facade projections to avoid the transmission of fire from one side of the street to the other. The current building is composed of two houses whose gables on the street are juxtaposed. At ground level, the old medieval shops have been transformed into a restaurant room in the modern era. The two storeys and the roof space have retained in facade their exposed timber framing, formed by crosspieces with close diamond-shaped mesh.

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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