Hôtel Muret, dit aussi hôtel de Sampigny

English translation

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History

The hotel is constituted of several building blocks forming four wings delimiting an interior courtyard. Two facades onto the street each allow access to the interior courtyard. The oldest part of the building can be dated to the 13th century because of the presence of twin windows in the south wall of the west wing to which was attached, in the 16th century, a staircase opening onto a loggia on the first floor and closed by timber framing on the upper floors. A building block is constructed in the same alignment towards the south. Opposite, a gallery on two levels, originally open and supported in the lower part by five columns with Doric capitals in granite and, in the upper part, by five columns with Corinthian capitals in wood, occupies the greater part of the east wing. In the middle of the 18th century, the south wing is rebuilt, set at a right angle on the site of the old buildings and two neighbouring houses. The north wing is also the subject of transformations at this time (woodwork, fireplaces, overdoors). Several vaulted cellars extend beneath the building. This hotel is one of the rare examples of an urban dwelling in Limoges that has preserved elevations from the 13th century. It constitutes evidence of the hotels built, since the Middle Ages, by notables, royal officers and wealthy merchants in the heart of the town centre.