Immeuble

English translation

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History

The outbuildings extend to the north as far as the rue du Chapitre, but it was around the middle of the 17th century that the main dwelling on the rue Dorée was transformed and partly rebuilt in its present form. In the 17th century, the hotel comprised a house, porch and courtyard. A century later, permission was granted to construct an adjacent hotel. The following can be attributed to the 1649 campaign: the façade on the rue Dorée with a sculpted portal; the façades facing the courtyard; the staircase, its railing and the ironwork of the eastern gallery. The small southern gallery, built later against the south façade of the courtyard, on brick barrel vaults and small beams, is a 19th-century addition. To the right upon entering the courtyard is the staircase, widely open to the courtyard by very taut arches, each furnished with two ornamental pendentives with sculptures. This staircase comprises three straight rectangular flights then a landing resting on two arches. The same arrangement between the first and second storey, with the difference that the very taut arch landings have been replaced by straight lintels decorated with mascarons. The ironwork consists of the staircase railing and the two support railings of the storey landing. These works are composed of small equal panels, all identical, decorated with opposed volutes garnished, in places, with entwining foliage. In the centre of the landing, the central panel comprises an oval escutcheon, without heraldic bearing, supported by two lions. At a recent period, the lateral access to the apartments was improved by a gallery facing the courtyard, on iron beams and brick barrel vaults.