Maison dite de la Mothe

English translation

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History

Date of construction unknown. The facade on the street has undergone retouching. The facades on the courtyard, to the east and south, are pierced with Gothic windows. In their angle rises the staircase turret. Of octagonal plan, it is exposed on three faces. The door, wide and low, is in basket-handle arch with large radius, mouldings with interpenetrations. The spiral staircase has a solid core. This core continues to the roof of the staircase, formed by radiating stone slabs from a capital with nine faces. The core extends above this capital and projects 20cm above the terrace. The staircase is probably later than the east facade. Indeed, at its base it masks a small Gothic door thus rendered unusable. Inside, the large hall on the first storey has retained its ceiling with moulded beams and joists as well as a wall tilework of 165 tiles from the Teruel workshop, of the Spanish type of Flanders. This tilework commemorates the victory achieved over the Spanish before Lérida, on 7 October 1642, by the Marshal de Lamothe. The latter stayed in Narbonne where he received from Louis XIII the marshal's baton as a reward for his victories at Tarragone and Villefranche.