listed private mansion for sale Rouen, France

In a pedestrian street in the historic center of Rouen, an apartment of over 300 m², on the first floor of a listed 18th-century hotel. At the beginning of a pedestrian street, the apartment is located in a condominium of six lots, accessible through a discreet automated carriage door. This leads to a first courtyard, extended by a vast shared tree-lined garden where parking spaces are arranged. The layout of the whole has hardly changed since its origins. After being successively owned by several families of the robe nobility in the 18th century, the building belonged, from 1829 to 1871, to Louis de Maupassant, ancestor of Guy de Maupassant, who also lived there during his schooling at the Jesuit college in Rouen, now Lycée Corneille. Some remnants of the former Hôtel du Roy, the house of the Fathers of the Oratory, and the Sainte-Barbe hospital still exist nearby, integrated into the walls of adjacent buildings: sculpted posts with a floral ornament, a stone cartouche adorned with scrolls and small masks, or even a bell. The façades and roofs of the private hotel are listed. The openings of the main body are separated by engaged pilasters. On the second floor, they are extended by a balustrade guardrail. Five dormer windows supported by pigeonholes rhythm the overhanging slate roof of Angers.This description has been automatically translated from French.