Maison des Consuls, Gothic residence in Périgueux, France

Maison des Consuls is a 15th-century Gothic residence at 16 boulevard Georges-Saumande in Périgueux, between the Maison Lambert and the Hôtel Salleton. Its pale grey ashlar front has mullioned and transomed windows, a long balustraded balcony on carved corbels, and a rectangular stair tower. The steep red-brown tiled roof carries two dormers with white-stone arched gables and carved heads, a brick chimney at the left and a stone one at the right.

This house was built during the 15th century and received protected monument status in 1889. Despite its name, it never functioned as the city's consulate or seat of government.

The name is misleading: the house never housed the city's consuls, whose seat stood on Place du Coderc. It belonged to the du Lau de la Côte and Cayla families, and before the Revolution to the de Fayolle family. Since 2014 it has been converted into eleven flats, with apartments facing the Isle and studios at the rear.

The building underwent major renovation work completed in 2016 and now serves as a residential complex with eleven upscale apartments. As a private residence, it can be viewed from outside but is not open for visitor access inside.

The rear of the house overlooks the narrow rue du Port-de-Graule, where a small courtyard gives onto a hexagonal tower holding a spiral staircase. Its corbelled machicolations continue those of the neighbouring Hôtel Salleton, so the two buildings read as one defensive line above the lane.