Buvette de la Renaissance

The Buvette de la Renaissance is a half-timbered house located at 21 rue Beauvoir, in the old Bourg-Neuf quarter of Blois, in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France. It went up in the last quarter of the 15th century and still carries most of its original façade decoration: dense diamond framing, carved animal-head drip-stops (so-called engoulants), a few crocketed pinnacles, and several of the earliest Renaissance motifs to turn up on a Blois townhouse. The bay on the left side, framed by St Andrew's Crosses that climb into the gable, is the feature most often singled out by writers on the building. The façade and the roof have been classified as a French monument historique since 23 November 1946.