A 225m² First Floor Apartment In A 19th Century Edifice In Nîmes In Southern France, Near The

A 225m² first-floor apartment in a 19th-century edifice in Nîmes in southern France, near the city’s UNESCO-listed Roman temple. The edifice has three levels and a basement. It is part of a 19th-century series of adjoining buildings that enjoys a remarkable location beside the street Rue de l’Horloge. It links the square Place de l’Horloge, on its east side, to the Roman temple, on its west side. The facade blends into its paved street in the historical heart of Nîmes. Its is coated with beige rendering and has 19th-century architectural features that are typical of France’s Bourbon Restoration period. This facade is plainly classical in style, crowned with a cornice with modillions and rosettes, which runs above the next cornice down, which only has mouldings, as well as a simple stringcourse that marks the top of the ground floor. The first floor is punctuated with four tall windows that combine colours and time periods, with bluish metal frames, large panes, double glazing, fanlights with the same materials, ashlar surrounds and pilasters. The windows along the top floor are smaller and their surrounds plainer. The roof is covered with barrel tiles, which is typical of the local region. A large entrance door framed between two shopfront windows – one for a florist, the other for a hairdresser’s salon – stands in the middle of the facade on the ground floor. This double door of solid oak with a patina of time has panels with mouldings and bronze fittings that include a door knocker. The door is set in a surround with a semicircular arch and limestone blocks in relief – the mark of an architectural style that is at once simple and elegant. Above the door, there is a glazed fanlight fitted with a wrought-iron grate with a radial pattern. This remarkable feature is a token of high-quality craftsmanship and an embellishment that bears witness to a time when an entrance to an edifice had to be at once reassuring and ceremonial. A broad staircase of stone steps leads up to the first floor where the apartment lies. Its wrought-iron balustrade has bars forming a remarkable neo-Gothic motif of pointed arches – a typically 19th-century design – and a handrail of oak with a patina of time.
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