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The 15th century Sarlat-la-Canéda building is a typical example of medieval civil architecture. Located at the bottom of an impasse, it is accessible by a vaulted passage leading to a main facade structured in two levels. The first floor is served by an external stone staircase, while the second one presents a corbelling advance supported by beams and beams. The rear façade is distinguished by an imposing stump of chimney in corbellation, starting from a door in the middle of the hanger on the ground floor.

The front façade combines defensive and aesthetic elements, such as a geminied third-point window on the first level. The large bays, potentially endowed with cruciforms, reflect the influence of late Gothic styles. The building, whose facades and roofs have been protected since 1977, illustrates local constructive techniques and the adaptation of urban homes to topographical constraints.

Ranked a Historic Monument, this building bears witness to Sarlat's bourgeois or artisanal life at the end of the Middle Ages. Its spatial organization, with differentiated accesses and careful decorative elements, suggests a residential or mixed function (housing and workshop). The presence of monumental half-timbers and chimneys also evokes the concerns of thermal comfort and social representation specific to this period.

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