Tour des Échevins, classified historical monument house in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France

The Maison dite Tour des Échevins is a house at 28 rue des Échevins and 2 rue du Lieutenant-Colonel-Farro, beside the collégiale Saint-Martin in Brive-la-Gaillarde. Built around 1500-1520 in Grammont sandstone, it keeps a corner turret with First Renaissance carving: an octagonal bay of pale yellow ashlar with a window on each level, carved pilasters and reliefs below the openings. A dark corrugated metal roller shutter closes a large base opening in a weathered stone surround.

Built around 1500-1520 from Grammont sandstone, the house retains a first-Renaissance corner turret on rue des Échevins and a corbelled turret on rue du Lieutenant-Colonel-Farro. Antoine Delbos, sieur du Bousquet, councillor to the King's Grand Council from 1787 to 1791, lived here; his son Joseph Antoine Nicolas Dubousquet-Laborderie was sub-prefect of Brive in 1830 and deputy for Corrèze in 1848. The building was listed as a monument historique in 1889, and the staircase tower was restored in 1921 by the Brousse firm.

The building stands at 28 rue des Échevins and 2 rue du Lieutenant-Colonel-Farro, beside the Collégiale Saint-Martin. Its name refers to the échevins, town magistrates, though the house was built around 1500-1520 for a private owner. The corner turret carries First Renaissance relief carving, and about 30 m along rue des Échevins part of the original facade survives, with two large windows and a door opening onto a circular staircase.

The house stands at the corner of rue des Échevins (No. 28) and rue du Lieutenant-Colonel-Farro (No. 2), immediately beside the collégiale Saint-Martin. The Renaissance turret faces rue des Échevins; a second turret on a corbel is on the Farro side. A stretch of the original facade, about 30 m along rue des Échevins, keeps two large windows and a door onto a circular stair.

The house keeps two stair turrets: the decorated one on rue des Échevins, restored in 1921 by the Brousse firm with part of its carving redone, and a second on a corbel on rue du Lieutenant-Colonel-Farro. About 30 m along rue des Échevins, part of the original facade survives, with two large windows and a door opening onto a circular staircase.