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English translation

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History

The origins of this house are not known. It dates back no doubt to the 14th century. In the middle of the 16th century, it housed a hospital for the poor. In 1753, this charitable institution bore the name of "Religious hospital ladies". Their enclosure had then considerably expanded through the acquisition of other houses. Three arches open onto the street façade. Two are old. The third, the left arch, is said to have been built in the 19th century. Each of these pointed arches is made up of thirteen voussoirs, with central keystone. Between them open small rectangular windows. The masonry is very carefully executed and the sharp edges of the frames are chamfered. The rectangular courtyard is framed by walls in corbelling whose renders mask the timber framing. These corbelllings are supported by beams with sculptured ends, resting themselves on four great arches established on each of the faces of the courtyard. Two of these arches spring from a pillar at the south-west corner. All other bearings are made, without intermediate pillar, on pilasters engaged in the ground-storey walls. It follows that, except at this south-west corner, the arches cut each other two by two at 1.50m from their springings, their intersection giving rise to a fairly complicated oblique cut. The bases rest on the engaged pilasters by means of capitals simply splayed. Only the capital of the north-west corner was carved with foliage. The Gothic abaci are simply hollowed with a gorge.