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The house at 12 rue des Consuls in Sarlat-la-Canéda is an emblematic 17th-century civil building. It consists of seven spans spread over two floors, surmounted by a steep roof forming pavilion at the ends. Part of the cover, initially in lauze, was replaced by flat tiles. The façade has a round-opened entrance door, framed with two stone pilasters, topped by a triangular pediment decorated with an erased shield bearing the arms of the Labrousse family.

Access to the inner courtyard reveals a screw staircase housed in a square turret above the porch. This staircase, illuminated by four windows with bossed frames, illustrates the care given to vertical circulation in the bourgeois houses of the era. The facades and roofs of the building were protected by an inscription in the Historic Monuments on June 6, 1962, recognizing their heritage value.

The architecture of this house reflects the characteristics of private hotels or noble houses in southwestern France in the seventeenth century. The decorative elements, such as pilasters and shields, as well as the span structure, show a moderate classical influence, adapted to the provincial context. The presence of a spiral staircase in a square turret also underlines the importance attached to symmetry and interior distribution, typical of urban residences of this period.

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