Do you love beautiful parquet floors, marble or stone fireplaces, stuccowork and mouldings?
If you would like to live in a period apartment, discover this lifestyle and the properties that match your search criteria. You can also browse all our properties by type and lifestyle on our dedicated page.
Features of a period apartment
Located in a fine bourgeois building, the period apartment offers beautiful volumes with generous ceiling heights, sometimes up to 4 metres in the Lyon canut apartments. It has also preserved its original features: solid oak parquet, one or more marble or stone fireplaces, mouldings, stuccowork, ceiling roses, cornices, various joinery such as stylobates, and French-style beamed ceilings. The charm of the old is the number-one asset in the sale of a fine period apartment in Lyon.
The little extras of a period apartment
On an upper floor with a lift, ideally from the 2nd or even 3rd floor, with an open view — why not a view over Fourvière — at a fine address, on the quays or on a Lyon square, dual-aspect, with a balcony or terrace, fully renovated with a fully equipped open-plan kitchen or entirely to renovate… these are all sought-after criteria that make a period apartment exceptional and can spark a real crush. Take the opportunity to discover the roof-terrace apartments in Lyon that we have for sale!
Old-world charm apartments in Lyon
Many apartments in Lyon have kept their old-world charm. Between the soaring ceiling heights, parquet floors, mouldings and fireplaces, the charm is very much present. One of the most important criteria for buyers is undoubtedly the parquet.
The different types of parquet
Hungarian point (point de Hongrie) parquet is a herringbone pattern that takes its V shape from laying boards cut at angles between 45 and 52°.
Broken-stick (bâton rompu) parquet, with its herringbone pattern, looks strikingly similar to the Hungarian point. However, its boards are cut at 90° and laid at right angles, forming a V.
Versailles parquet takes its name from the parquet laid at the Château de Versailles. A true masterpiece, it is complex to lay but its result is impressive, creating a pattern of interlaced diagonals.
Aremberg parquet is a variation on the Versailles parquet, assembled in square panels featuring a pattern.
Surfaces that evolve
These apartments have changed a great deal over time, according to their owners’ wishes. Some have kept very large surface areas; others have been divided in two to create smaller spaces or, on the contrary, combined to create large family or reception apartments. The large surfaces usually benefit from two landing doors that allow for these changes.
The large surfaces enjoy generous volumes with a double reception room, a living room with an open kitchen to create beautiful living spaces, a dining room, and a sleeping area with a master suite and several bathrooms. A cellar and attic help declutter the living space and favour clean, uncluttered areas.
Where to find a period apartment for sale in Lyon?
BARNES, an estate agency specialising in high-end properties in Lyon, supports you in your search for a bourgeois apartment, a canut apartment, or contemporary apartments in Lyon — renovated or to renovate — at the finest Lyon addresses.
28 consultants specialising in the 69 department welcome you to our agencies: entrust them with your preferred criteria. They will support you from the first viewing right through to the final signing for your apartment. Step inside BARNES to be looked after by a single, dedicated point of contact. Using our database, they can select properties in line with your search and refine them with you as they present them. They can also offer you, as a priority, properties that have not yet been marketed. What is more, not all of our properties are available on our website; we work on so-called off-market properties. With no marketing at all, and thanks to our network and client database, these properties are sold in the utmost confidentiality.
Buying a period apartment in Lyon
BARNES offers a selection of apartments for sale in Lyon and the surrounding towns: