Immeuble à lucarne de type compagnonnique

English translation

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History

Three houses currently located at 12, 50 to 58 and 72, rue de la Gare, a street opened from 1873, present roofs adorned with complex dormers executed at the end of his life by the Journeyman Passing Carpenter of the Duty Bon Drille of the Tour de France Hippolyte Moreau, known as Berry-la-Conscience, carpentry contractor in Châteauroux (1822-1900). Associated with his son-in-law, Armand Viraud, public works contractor, he had worked on major building sites opened in Châteauroux in the last decades of the 19th century. The works that Hippolyte Moreau installed as a sign on the family houses of rue de la Gare reflect all the fancies and difficulties of his trade, and condense, like a sort of testament, all his knowledge of the trade – that is to say the drawing of interpenetrating volumes, learned on the Tour de France. The house, of rectangular plan with bevelled corner on the east angle, comprises three levels: ground floor used as a shop, first floor and attic floor serving as residential accommodation. The walls are in masonry on which wooden pieces have been applied arranged in a Saint-Andrew's cross. The interest of this building resides in the carpentry works which ornament the roofs and cover the French doors of the first floor. The central French door of the façade facing rue de la Gare is covered with a squab balcony with raised ridge. The corbelling is obtained by a squab flanked by squab ties assembled by a Saint-Andrew's cross. The balcony is surmounted by a dormer with double squab. The projecting cornice is surmounted by four triangular pediments above which rises a polygonal roof. On the bevelled corner, a guitar balcony supports a dormer formed by a double guitar. Its roof space is made up of two V-shaped crossed domes, connecting at the ends of straight roof spaces. On rue Ledru-Rollin, a balcony established on corbelling is covered by two divergent squabs, raised on three posts and joined by the central one forming an angle. The semicircular corbelling is borne by five wooden consoles falling back on a column with twisted fluting. These two squabs are topped with a roof à l'impériale.