Maison Roigt

English translation

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History

The Maison Roigt stands on a plot formerly occupied by a Gallo-Roman villa. Built from the 12th or 13th century onwards, the present building has undergone numerous alterations over the centuries, notably a change in the number of its storeys which increased from 2 to 3 in the 16th century. The present division into two levels (a partially underground level corresponding to the former ground floor and a storey corresponding to the first floor from when the house had three levels) is created by a concrete slab in the 20th century. The house nevertheless preserves a fireplace and numerous openings, some blocked up, in particular the large arches in its north and east walls, two 16th-century windows on the level of its eastern façade, and a twin opening of the 12th century and an arrow-slit on the level of the southern façade. An archaeological excavation carried out in 1989 led to the discovery of a mosaic (dated to the 6th century), a vestige of the antique villa that once occupied the site.

Description

The Maison Roigt is built principally in limestone but also presents certain parts in brick and rubble stone construction. Facing onto the street from which it is separated by a small courtyard closed by a wall, the western façade consists of stone and brick construction. It comprises a door topped by a round arch giving access to a covered passage leading to the lowest level of the house. The western façade is pierced by three openings: a door and two mullioned windows (dated to the 16th century). A canopy completes the western façade. It shelters a small sink set into a niche topped by a round arch. The south façade opens onto a courtyard separated from the street by a gateway. It is pierced by a door allowing access to the storey created inside the house by the addition of a concrete slab. This façade has two other openings: an arrow-slit topped by a pointed arch corresponding to what was originally the ground floor of the house and now shared between its two storeys; and a twin opening, carved and decorated with a 13th-century quadrilobed motif corresponding to what was previously the second storey of the house.