Filature et tissage de laine Charles Houiller, actuellement immeuble à appartements

English translation

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History

This wool cloth manufacture, in the old town centre, comprises three workshops built around a rectangular courtyard and a dwelling with covered passage closing off the courtyard onto rue de la République. The timber-framed workshops, erected during the second half of the 18th century, were remodeled and heightened in the 19th century. The western workshop comprises three storeys topped by a drying loft. Its western elevation still shows traces of the original shingle cladding in chestnut scales. The northern and eastern workshops have only two storeys. The layout of their ground floors indicates the former existence of stables. The 1831 cadastre attests the presence of a horse-driven mechanism for the spinning mill, since disappeared. At that date, the building is attributed to the cloth manufacturer Charles Houiller. The dwelling was rebuilt subsequently in two campaigns, around 1835 for the eastern part, and around 1865 for the western part. Textile activity there presumably ceased around 1870. The workshop buildings have since been partly converted into dwellings.