The unusual feature of Cité-de-Trévise is its green open, landscape area, taking pride of place in its centre, from which two streets part from opposing corners. Enclosed by railings, the garden is planted with sycamore trees. In the middle, a fountain with three nymphs holding hands, the work of sculptor Francisque-Joseph-Duret. The architectural style of the estate predominantly reflects that of the Renaissance era. The moulded architraves at the windows, the arched openings and the walls, featuring grooved joints, of some of the buildings are taken from the Italianate neo-classical style. Some buildings, including the one housing this particular flat, are enhanced with architectural features, included since 1991 on the French Supplementary Historic Monument List
Once through the elegant carriage gates, with their tall wrought iron panels, their access protected by an interphone security system, a porchway gives access to double glazed doors where a hall paved with inlaid marbled houses a wide, semi-circular stairway, covered with a carpet runner. At the end, a courtyard closed by another side of the U-shaped building, provides access to the utility floors. In this flat laid out on the road side, the hall and the stairway are included on the French Supplementary Historic Monument List.
A single flat can be reached on every floor via double doors, with lateral panels as well as glazed upper sections and fanlights, protected by a metal grill typical of the Louis-Philippe style.
This L-shaped, through flat still has all of its original decorative traits and features: solid oak wood parquet flooring, cornices and moulded cap moulding, ceiling roses, doors with moulded panels, fireplaces with marble mantels and trumeaux with gilt frames, a Prussian wood-burning stove, embellished with ceramic tiles and wrought-iron espagnolette window bolts.
Four large, double-glazed, double windows, fitted with outdoor slatted shutters, widely illuminated three adjoining rooms which are all accessed via an entrance gallery: a main bedroom, a living room and a study, with its solid oak wood bookcases. On one side, a guest toilet separates the main bedroom from a second bedroom, with a window overlooking the courtyard. Opposite, a dining room, with the Prussian wood-burning stove, is illuminated via a window overlooking the courtyard. And lastly, a corridor gives access to a bathroom and a kitchen, both with windows overlooking the courtyard.
The heating is electric and domestic hot water produced by a hot water tank installed in the kitchen. A large cellar in the basement can be reached via the back stairway off the courtyard.