Maison Fraisse

English translation

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History

The building has always belonged to notable families since the 16th century. The façade was entirely altered in the 19th century. The main entrance, on the church square, gives access, by a passage, to a small courtyard with a niche well and stone coping. This courtyard is surrounded by superimposed wooden galleries, on two sides. The staircase serving these galleries is also in wood. The two ends of the north gallery open onto the apartments by pointed arch doors. The apartments of the first floor, to the north and west of the courtyard, have largely preserved their old ceilings with exposed beams. The side faces of the large beams are ornamented with foliage scrolls, painted in white and outlined in brown. The metopes between the beams each received the decoration of a bouquet of flowers (roses, tulips, cornflowers, campanulas).