Rue du Waux-Hall

Description

As you go up the rue du Waux-Hall, you pass two houses with listed facades (numbers 4 and 6). Each has a coat of arms to the right of the front door, giving this information
door. This means that they are protected. They are protected because they are characteristic of the architecture of the middle and second half of the 18th century. The pavement alongside them, made of cobblestones, is also protected.

Question 8. In number 4, which wooden elements are painted blue?

The windows have louvres, i.e. shutters made up of inclined horizontal slats assembled in a frame. These slats are movable. A louver is a panel that pivots on one of its vertical edges. It is used to line the outside of a glazed frame. The shutter is a panel that pivots on one of its vertical edges. It is used to line the inside of a glazed frame.

How can you recognise a building from the second half of the 18th century? By the shape of the openings and their lintels, which are almost always interrupted by a trapezoidal keystone.
The most common types of lintel from the second half of the 18th century are shown in the attachment.

Continuing along Rue du Waux-Hall, on the same pavement you will see a house from another era, number 12.

Question 9: What is the name of the architect who built this house?

This building dates from the 1930s. The façade is covered in decorative plaster painted white in an Art Deco style, as are the wrought-iron railings and the front door.

Continue as far as the entrance to the Waux-Hall garden.

ANSWER
8. The elements painted blue are the entrance door, the window frames, the shutters
and the cornice.
9. The architect's name is Jean Montulet.