The remarkable house in pale gold stone, medieval in architecture and strikingly authentic, fits naturally into a paved street of the village centre, among lanes, old shops, and ancient remains. This main street is the principal artery through the upper town. Running east to west, the house was built over the town's former ramparts and is arranged over four levels.
The street facade is protected as a historic monument. Its verticality gives the building its grandeur. Entirely of stone, this civic frontage presents a highly regular composition, organised in bays and in levels separated by stringcourses. Large pointed-arch openings, their dressed-stone surrounds made up of carefully laid voussoirs, punctuate the ground floor, historically given over to trade. Narrow Gothic windows pierce the upper levels. Jambs and engaged colonnettes frame them, carrying small capitals at the springing of the arches. The facing combines rubble-stone masonry with dressed-stone architectural elements, notably in the surrounds, the quoins, and the supports of the openings. Together they reflect the quality of the Gothic civic architecture that distinguished the village in the 13th century.
On the ground floor, the traditional arrangement places sitting room and kitchen beside an interior courtyard at the centre of the vast main house, while the upper levels hold no fewer than six bedrooms and three shower rooms. The garden level provides guest accommodation and an indoor pool.
At the rear, a Mediterranean garden, modest in size and well composed, offers views over the tops of the surrounding buildings and the countryside beyond.

The house

The ground floor
The inner courtyard forms a true central patio, entirely tiled in terracotta and bordered by ochre-toned stone walls whose irregular surfaces reflect their age. One of its most remarkable features is its upper elevation, where old stone structures and sturdy masonry corbels or brackets stand out beneath the upper levels. The terracotta floor brings warmth to a resolutely mineral interior. Two large French windows, their glazing divided into many small panes, flood the space with light. To the right, a sitting room is lined with moulded wooden panelling painted grey-blue and gold. Heavy timber beams rest on stone walls, one wall pierced by an arched opening. An imposing column opposite anchors the space. The wide openings frame views of the valley and the surrounding countryside. The adjacent kitchen and dining area share the same outlook.
The first floor
The staircase serving this level is of traditional craftsmanship, bearing the deep patina of time. Its treads are of dark timber, the nosings rounded and worn smooth. A worked timber railing with turned balusters runs alongside, anchored at its foot by a massive newel post capped with a decorative finial. Handrail and balustrade elements are equally old, their patina lending them distinction.
The stairs lead to two bedrooms and a shower room. The larger bedroom is marked by its terracotta-tile floor and grand fireplace, with a hearth of old bricks and a decorative cast-iron fireback. Two windows overlooking the surrounding landscape fill the second bedroom with natural light.
A gallery leads to the third bedroom on this level. One side is bounded by a rendered stone wall, patinated and showing traces of age, with a metal guardrail securing the other. The floor is a plain stone slab.
The second floor
A winding staircase with stone steps, reached through a wide semicircular-arched opening of exposed stone, leads to this level. Connected to the staircase, a gallery runs along an old building and forms a covered outdoor passageway of strongly authentic character. An exposed stone wall of beige and ochre blocks bounds the walkway, and a metal guardrail with slender vertical bars secures it.
At the far end, a solid timber door of horizontal boards opens onto a large terrace comprising two distinct areas, one open to the sky, the other covered. The open section frames a half-timbered wall. Singular in character, the terrace retains its unobstructed views and leads to the three large bedrooms and two shower rooms on this level. The ceiling, with its honey-toned exposed beams, harmonises with the stone walls in patinated render and the pink-toned terracotta-tile floors.

The garden-level floor
A flight of stone steps leads to a room of unmistakably medieval character, its stone walls and imposing original timber beams intact. A small kitchen gives guests independence and comfort. Two bedrooms and views of the valley complete the arrangement. An indoor pool sits beneath a well-preserved medieval vault. Wall fountains, decorative niches, and fine ironwork deepen the intimate, singular atmosphere throughout.