Maison sise n° 10 rue Georges-Sabo

English translation

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History

This house is located near the central square of Revel which is a bastide founded in 1342. The rue de Carcassonne, then des Frères - present-day rue George-Sabo - connected the Halle square to the gate called the Frères gate - today on boulevard Carnot, located at the place of the rampart. The analysis of the building and especially of the applied decoration allows us to propose as the period of construction the second half of the 17th century. The town preserves numerous timber-framed houses which are traditionally dated to the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Here, the main structure - timber framing laced with brick - is covered with a thick recent render which makes impossible the analysis of the forms of the roof structure. The squat volumetry of the building is common to a few grand dwellings which appear to belong to this chronological period. The beautiful staircase with baluster guard rail with square double-sided balustrades in wood corresponds to a model in vogue throughout the 17th century. The coffered ceilings painted with rosettes and crowns of flowers, probably originally grisailles, preserved on the ground floor and second storey, are fairly rare in civil buildings. The mouldings are painted with red dots. This arrangement is dated to 1696. The top storey of the house also preserves partitions made of vertical overlapping planks fixed to upper and lower plates. They carry alternately acanthus leaf scrolls and vine leaf tendrils with bunches of grapes; the rendering is supple and delicate and distinguishes itself from standard production. Complementing these painted wood decorations, careful sculpted plaster ornament decorates three rooms. Relatively easy to implement and inexpensive, the technique of plaster decoration enjoyed great success in Languedoc and neighbouring regions during the second half of the 17th century. The decorations of this house constitute a precious and rare testimony to this type of creation.

Description

The property consists of a large house whose front façade is aligned with the street, a small house with a dependency at the rear and a garden enclosed by high boundary walls. The back of the plot is bordered by the Mayral, a stream marking the plot boundary which formerly served as a sewer. The main house consists of a ground floor, a first floor in salient corbel projecting approximately 80 cm from the ground floor; the second floor, usually serving as an attic, has openings measuring half those of the principal floor. Both houses are constructed in timber framing with brick infill. Modern renders do not allow the structure of the buildings to be seen. Vertical corner chains in render imitating rustication frame the façade. The ground floor and first floor present the same layout: a wide central corridor housing the staircase separates the main dwelling in two, with on each side two rooms, one opening onto the street and the other onto the garden to the south. The imposing wooden staircase, datable to the 17th century, distributes the two floors. The support rail consists of square balusters with double bellies in wood. The beams of the entrance and the second floor are covered with a floor cut into small square coffers ornamented with flowers painted in grisaille. Completing the painted ceilings, an elaborate sculpted plaster decoration, probably datable to the second half of the 17th century, ornaments three rooms, the ground floor salon, another on the first floor and a small bedroom.