The town houses of Mont-St-Michel with originally all constructed of timber- frames, but during the late 19th century and the Belle Epoch era most were torn down and replaced by much more comfortable dwelling places, although the original land divisions were adhered to. A beautiful stone and timbered building clinging to the town ramparts and constructed on corbels, facing the Kings Gate is known as the house of the Arches. In times gone by this lovely building once housed a part of the town’s garrison.
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Not far from the house of arches is an unusual building faced in wooded shingles. This is the house of the Artichoke, its name deriving from the floret of its dormer windows and bridge across the main street. The Inn of the Unicorn opposite the modern but very sympathetically designed hotel Saint-Pierre, is now a souvenir shop, but is one of the last examples of buildings which once characterised an earlier Mont-St-Michel town. The house of Guesclin and his wife Tiphaine is although much restored a text book example of old stone houses of the typical of the town. The shop of the Mouton Blanc or White Ram was once the establishment of the town’s old bakery, and stand directly across from a hotel of the same name.
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