The main house

Built in a very quiet pedestrian street, backing onto the chapel to which it once belonged, the house faces south-east and extends over two storeys above the ground floor. The facade, built of stone from the Fontvieille quarries, features two arched windows per floor, with louvred shutters on the first floor and more opaque wooden shutters on the second. The gable roof is clad with monk-and-nun tiles. A wooden door topped by a transom window with wrought ironwork leads from the street into the ground floor entrance hallway.
Modest in appearance, the house successfully conceals its interior comfort. Larger than it seems, it comprises nine rooms: a kitchen, a dining room, a sitting room, four bedrooms and two bathrooms. On the ground floor, the 17th-century ceiling with its groin vaults, adorned with a central keystone framed by a moulding, confirms the building's religious character. The 18th-century fireplace with carved stone mantelpiece and overmantel, period terrazzo granito or cement tile floors and beamed ceilings bear witness to the building's later transformation into a private residence.
The upper floors are accessed via a stone staircase with wrought iron balustrade and wooden handrail. Upstairs, there are four bedrooms with tiled or parquet floors and whitewashed walls, two of which have fireplaces, and two with sloping ceilings, and a shower room with a waxed concrete floor.
At roof level, a semi-covered Roman terrace of around twenty square metres houses an open-air gym with panoramic views over the city.

The courtyard garden and pool

The walls of the former convent buildings adjoining the chapel protect the courtyard garden extending over around 200 m². They are partly covered in Virginia creeper and jasmine. The garden, which is rather minimalist today, was once more abundant and could become so again in the future.
A central pool used as a swimming pool, of limited dimensions - around 3 m x 2 m -, unexpected in the heart of the town centre, forms the central feature of the courtyard. The freshness of the pool benefits all the surrounding bedrooms.
This somewhat eclectic enclosure is a mixture of highly disparate architectural elements: a medieval arched window, a tall 18th-century small-paned window, a small dormer window, an outside staircase, a fragment of a vaulted ceiling and a small arch. Restored in the 2000s in the spirit of traditional Arab-Andalusian dwellings, the ensemble resembles a riad where light and shadow interplay with shapes.

The studio flat and outbuildings

Across from the house, closing off the walled outdoor area to the south, is a single-storey studio flat (approx. 26 m²) with its own entrance from the street and access to the courtyard and the pool. With its resolutely contemporary design and pervasive black and white features, the shower area/toilet and the fitted kitchen counter equipped with all the essentials, it is ideal for a young adult or visiting guests. This small lodging provides the opportunity to take part in the life of the house around the pool or to withdraw, while preserving one's independence thanks to an entrance from the street.
Finally, opposite the studio, the outdoor staircase which climbs over the courtyard arcade leads up to two spare bedrooms for friends, with whitewashed walls and waxed concrete floors.