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Origin and history

The Town Hall of Caudebec-en-Caux is a house built in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century, before 1805, for the Busquet de Caumont family. It is characterized by a facade decorated with large carved coat of arms and an interior decorated in an antiquisant style. Originally, the building was inserted into a terraced garden bordering the Seine, accessible by a gate aligned with the dock. Two building bodies then composed the whole, completed in 1818 by a south extension now disappeared.

In 1830, the retaining wall of the garden, topped by a row of trees, was replaced in 1857 by a stone balustrade from the castle of La Mailleraye, then in ruins. The property remained in the Busquet de Chandoisel family until 1921, before being transformed into a passenger hotel (1926-1936), then into a recording studio for Radio Normandie (1936). Requisitioned in 1941 to replace the town hall destroyed in 1940, the building definitely became the city hall in 1953 after its purchase by the municipality.

A fire in 1994 destroyed some of the extensions, saving the original woodwork on the ground floor. The restoration, completed in 1995, preserved three historic rooms. The site also includes a hangar (1984) with a traditional gribane, linked to the Musée de la Navigation en Seine. The whole, partially protected since 1996, illustrates the architectural and functional evolution of a private building that has become public.

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