Maison Brives

English translation

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History

The façades have undergone major alterations. Only two mullioned windows remain on the west façade. The best preserved part is the staircase turret situated on the street façade. This tower rises on a square plan, with a ground floor, four storeys and a roof space adapted as a dovecote with single-pitch roof covering. The door facing the street presents a round arch forming an ashlar lintel. The imposts are moulded with a flat astragal, a rule and a fillet. The lateral pilasters are also crowned with imposts. The frieze is decorated with five diglyphs beneath the remains of a simple cornice. At the top of the arch is a relief shield with no decoration. The single leaf, in oak, is of a type frequent in the Saint-Ponais and Lodèvois. It comprises a rectangular section topped by a semicircle. The rectangular section, above a remade base, comprises two equal panels framed by pilasters. The three pilasters, two lateral and one central, are each decorated with six flutes and topped with capitals with ovae and a moulding with two rules. Inside the panels are depicted arches in false symmetrical perspectives.