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Origin and history

The house in Rodez, built in the 16th century, adopts an elongated plan between Rue du Bal and Rue du Court-Comtal. Its grip on the ground dates back to an earlier medieval construction, attested by a view of 1495 designating it as the house of Barthélemy Gauchoz. The esteemed books of 1450 and 1497 reveal a functional division: a house body with three working rooms (room, room, stable) and inner galleries connecting the floors. The façade on Rue du Bal, decorated with a late Gothic décor, preserves counterfiches, drawstrings and modified cross-windows, topped by a braided arches and flamboyant pinnacles.

Originally owned by the Goch family (Barthélemy in 1450, then his son in 1497), this residence reflects the status of wealthy merchants, like other families in the Bourg (Daulhou, Masnau). The chimneys and the distribution of the rooms confirm a medieval domestic organization. In the 19th century, the house became the property of the merchant Simeon Boyer (1810), then of the pharmacist Trouillet at the end of the century. The latter installs its office (Modern pharmacy) and rearrangement inside: ramp staircase on ramp, neo-classical door with bosses, and furniture elements (mirrors, hat holders) dating from this period.

The major transformation took place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, with the fusion of stables and houses, and the addition of an entrance street of the Court-Comtal. The old bays on the ground floor, replaced by windows, testify to this commercial adaptation. Ranked for its façade and roof in 1950, the house illustrates the evolution of a medieval merchant house into a mixed building (residential and commercial), while retaining remarkable Gothic architectural elements, such as larmiers or frames of windows with gorges and torus.

The written sources (books of esteem, view of 1495) and the material traces (pathways, panels of wood) allow to partially reconstruct its history, although the biographies of the owners (Goch, Boyer, Trouillet) remain fragmentary. The building thus embodies the transition between the Ruthenian medieval habitat and the urban changes of the 19th to 20th centuries, marked by the rise of commercial activities in the historical centre.

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