A few areas of the medieval town remain, with their half-timbered houses and mullioned windows. Built along the main road that runs upstream along the Garonne, on the city's ancient ramparts, the town centre is carefully maintained by a variety of urban developments designed to unify the architectural heritage. The house is a small private mansion with three storeys on the street side to the north and four storeys on the courtyard side to the south. Opposite the main entrance, a wide terrace runs the full length of the façade, joined by two original, timber-framed walkways overlooking an enclosed, flower-filled garden. The east gallery has a Moroccan-style lounge set in a small flat, which has three large windows; the west gallery, which is entirely open to the outside, leads to a summer dining room. The garden is closed off by a garage that can be easily accessed from a side street. Finally, two passageways under the house lead to cellars and an underground passageway, which was recently closed up. The front façade, accessible from the main street and in dressed stone, was probably standardised in the 19th century. It is open, with its ten large windows and four small ones full of little panes, or its wooden shutters painted in light green that surround an ancient entrance door, also wooden. On the courtyard side, the rear façade features a large cross window on the first floor and pink brickwork on the east side, while the west side features pointed ashlar throughout. On the ground floor, the façade is rendered white. From the terrace, a stone staircase leads down to the garden, both the terrace and stairs have simple wrought-iron railings. The building is semi-detached on its west side, and opens onto a lane via another door with access to the cellars on the east side. All parts of the house are covered with single or double-sloped interlocking or canal tile roofs.

The house

The ground floor
In the hallway, with its tiled floor, there is a library area before a wide staircase with a wooden colonnade, leading to the bedrooms on the first floor. A side storage room leads on to a large reception room, which opens onto the terrace through a French window and is bathed in light. It features a monumental marble fireplace with carved hunting scenes, moulded 18th-century baseboards, painted beams and parquet flooring. Under the staircase, a passageway leading to the toilet leads on to a long dining room, which also opens out onto the terrace through a French window. A window with 19th-century stained glass overlooks the lane. A functional kitchen, designed in the 1960s and decorated in an old style, including copper pans on the walls and period ceramics, communicates with a bedroom, a former study facing north onto the street. A washing area includes a walk-in shower, washbasin and toilet. A side door leads to the hallway. Two wings depart from the U-shaped terrace in the form of a covered gallery, housing a summer dining area and a barbecue on one side and an oriental lounge on the other.
The first floor
The quarter-turn wooden staircase leads to a landing with four large bedrooms. On the garden side, the first room features medieval architecture, with a mullioned window, the beginnings of a watchtower, a large moulded wooden fireplace and parquet flooring. Another room, also south-facing and communicating with the first, is just as spacious, with an interesting Henri II-style fireplace topped by a mirror. On the other side, a hallway with large cupboards leads to a small bathroom with a mezzanine designed for young children. Back on the landing, a small door provides access to the second floor; the attic, which could be converted. After there are two bedrooms, also with parquet flooring, that look out onto the street. One, with moulding in Directoire style with an alcove and pink marble fireplace, has its own shower room; the other, above the study, adjoins a large bathroom with cupboards, a bath, a washbasin, bidet and toilet. This floor has plenty of wall cupboards and central heating.
The second floor
A concealed staircase leads up to the top floor, under the rafters, and leads to two large, open rooms lit by little windows and covered with thick rock wool insulation. This high-ceilinged, fully convertible space has retained its oak parquet flooring, exposed beams and small brickwork windows, and has also been converted to create a terrace with views over the Garonne and the surrounding countryside.
The basement
In the basement, two large low-arched openings provide access to vaulted spaces. The foundations of the house, with two doors opening onto the garden, contain a series of rooms of varying sizes: on one side, a large workshop with a door leading to the lane to the east and, at the far end, a boiler room; on the other, a wine cellar, a wood cellar, an interior well that is still fed and a door, recently blocked off for safety reasons, to an underground passageway. These vaulted cellars, the loopholes, the layout of the interior spaces separated by studded doors and protected by wrought iron bars on the windows all bear witness to the medieval foundations of the dwelling.