A "house museum"
This building, formerly an exhibition centre and now inhabited, shows the freedom builders could take from the standard house.
The east facade:
Made of loose stones and boulders, it once adjoined a barn that has now been demolished.
The main facade (north gable):
3 characteristic features are visible: the private WC (quacatir, caquiera), a small projecting tower accessible from the kitchen; the staircase, supported by wood and masonry, with a wooden stringboard; the open gable, with the ridge beam supported by a punch anchored in a beam, itself resting on the masonry. This is known as the entrait.
The north facade :
On the north facade you will see a painted rectangle, with a reference to the builders, the date of construction and the coat of arms. The Valaisan armorial, under the name "Allégroz", gives two versions of the pieces of this coat of arms. The second, it suggests, forms a Christogram. In reality, the design reproduces the builders' family crest.
The west facade:
It is of mixed stone and wood, and the roof structure is protected from the rain by planks. A vault gives access to an inner courtyard, the double courtyard, which leads to the cellars and ground floor.
You will notice that access to the ground floor from rue de la Brentaz has been blocked off. In the past, this ground floor housed the village's first grocery shop or "Débit de Sel" (until 1925). The first floor has two levels: level 1, a vestibule and kitchen open onto the gable; level 2, two bedrooms topped by the galetas.
