Maison Courtial ; hôtel Franc de Cahuzac

English translation

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History

This building results from the union of three houses, the most important of which is mentioned in 1470. In 1624, the proprietress acquires this first house as well as two other neighbouring ones. Since 1672, the building is counted as a single house. The present building was therefore rebuilt, at least in part, around 1648-1672. The street façade opens by a rectangular portal with external framing with long crossettes at the upper angles. These crossettes are each supported by a narrow and very projecting console. Above, a broken circular pediment and the location of a cartouche are visible. A covered passage leads to a square courtyard whose north and south walls rest, on the ground floor, on a very wide basket-handle arch. The arch on the north opens onto the gallery which precedes the staircase. This gallery opens onto the stairwell by three unequal arches. The stringers of the staircase are supported by rampant arches while the landings are supported by round-arched arches. These longitudinal and transversal arches rest, towards the walls, on engaged pillars, towards the cage on square pillars. All these pillars are ornamented with moulded, non-rampant imposts. The intrados of the transversal arches are rampant barrel vaults. The rail is in iron and consists of vertical bars linked two by two, consecutively, by an upper loop. The handrail is doubled by a parallel bar, with round struts, mushroom-shaped, every two bars.