The mansion block, with a resident caretaker, comprises several Empire-style buildings framing a vast paved courtyard decorated with southern plant varieties: citrus trees, white lilacs, oleanders and medlar trees. The building is very sober, characteristic of revenue houses of the period, and offers a number of typical features: dressed guard stones, concave niches under the porch opening onto rue Meslay, stained glass windows depicting a royal lion, arched entrance doors, dentil mouldings, and repetitions of Greek meanders under the second porch opening onto the boulevard Saint-Martin to the north. The property is located on the third floor of the same building, accessible by lift or staircase, via a protected hall with a black and grey veined marble floor.
With a surface area of 84 m² and a ceiling height of 3.20 metres, the full-width flat with a parquet floor offers a triple exposure. Behind the glass front door, the hallway leads immediately to the first bedroom and then on to the living room. Both feature large windows, revealing the foliage of the street and the silhouettes of the "Bantu" warriors painted by the street artist Kouka, which adorn the facade of a 1970s building originally designed by Jean-Jacques Fernier and André Biro.
From the living room - with its ceiling rose, its mouldings alternating floral motifs and modillions and its fireplace topped by a mirror - a wide corridor leads to a series of well-lit rooms overlooking the courtyard: a second bedroom with a transom and ceiling rose, a shower room, a bathroom, separate toilets, as well as a kitchen with a fireplace mantle and a period tiled floor.