Maison Beley

English translation

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History

House composed of a main dwelling preceded, on the street, by a square dovecote, and pierced at ground level by a gun opening in the form of a gun-port. The dwelling retains several openings of the 16th century, and must originally have been completed by outbuildings. It is a building of rectangular plan with a spiral staircase within the walls, composed of a vaulted basement, a ground floor, a first floor and roof space. The ground floor and floor each have one room covered with a flat ceiling, with a 16th century stone fireplace. The fireplace of the upper floor, in polished marble stone, presents sculpted geometric decoration, as well as the arms and devices of the Cousin de Nozeroy family. The jambs support consoles bearing two figures, a man and a woman bare-torsoed, beneath a representation of the sun and the moon. Above this fireplace, and in several places in the room, there remain traces of a painted frieze of leaf scrollwork.