House Toulon (83)
An early-20th-century villa to be restored with a 210m² floor area and a south-facing garden, near beaches in the Mediterranean city of Toulon. The villa stands on a calm road lined with detached houses. It is characteristic of upper-middle-class houses of the early 20th century. The villa dates back to a period before 1920. It offers a 210m² floor area and faces north and south. The edifice is rectangular in shape with a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. The ground floor leads out southwards onto a tiled terrace edged with a low stone wall and, beyond it, a garden. On the street side, the stone facade with pale rendering is punctuated with wooden louvred shutters painted green. There is a balcony with a finely crafted wrought-iron balustrade on the first floor. This balcony is supported by six corbels with mouldings, spaced out over the top corners of the window and door surrounds on the ground floor. All the windows are rectangular and arranged symmetrically around the central axis where the entrance door is. They are set in surrounds of white stone with mouldings. Most of them have sculpted mascarons or foliage at the top. A cornice marks the top of the facade, which is also divided with a plain stringcourse. The villa is crowned with a three-slope roof of interlocking tiles. Just beneath the roof, there is a window with a balcony that has a stone balustrade. Sculpted corbels support this balcony. On the garden side, on the first floor, a balcony spans the width of the elevation, which is rendered similarly and is currently covered with an abundance of vegetation.
… $815,600
By Patrice Besse
