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41 rue Haute

Hôtel · Honfleur The Printed Home Rue Haute since 1893

Fourteen rooms on Rue Haute, Honfleur

The Printed Home

A printer's house from 1893, two streets back from the Vieux Bassin. The press has gone, its counter is now the desk, and the rooms climb through the floors where the family once lived.

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Linen pillows on a made bed, a single protea in a glass on the bedside table

Ink on the floorboards since 1893

14rooms, and no two of them the same shape

1893the year the first press was bolted to the floor

300 mfrom the front door to the old harbour

In the house

Small things done properly

Opened oysters on a plate of crushed ice

Upper Case

Oysters from the bay and a kitchen that shuts at ten

Dinner is served five nights a week in the front room, where the type cases once stood in rows. The menu follows the boats into Honfleur and the orchards behind it.

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Where you sleep

Four kinds of room, one staircase

The Attic Rooms

Under the pine boards of the main roof, with gable windows that look down Rue Haute towards the estuary.

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Attic room under sloping pine boards, a long window at the gable end

The Street Rooms

The second floor at the front. Tall windows, shutters that close properly, and the church bells on the hour.

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Street-side room with a pale rug, a bench at the foot of the bed

Downstairs and across the yard

Red velvet armchairs drawn up to a low polished table

Two flights up

The casino is the loft at the top of this house

The Printed Room has five tables and a short bar under the roof beams, and it opens Wednesday to Sunday from eight in the evening. The floor of the casino is the same oak the sailmakers knelt on until 1974.

From the desk you take the back stair two flights up and walk twenty steps along the landing, and you never leave the building. French law puts the casino age at 18, and the door checks photo identification on every visit.

Up to the loft

Section through the shop wing: from the desk on the ground floor, up two flights of the back stair, then twenty steps along the landing to the gaming room under the roof. SAIL LOFT UNTIL 1974 LANDING, TWENTY STEPS SECOND FLIGHT FIRST FLIGHT THE DESK, OLD SHOP GAMING ROOM RUE HAUTE
From the desk to the loft door: two flights of the back stair and twenty steps along the landing, all under one roof.

The front on Rue Haute

Slate, timber and a hoist beam at the top

Rue Haute was the street of pilots, shipwrights and chandlers, and this house shows it. The ground floor is the old shop, with its wide window and the door the paper came in by. Above it are two floors of rooms, and at the very top the gable still carries the oak beam the sailmakers used to haul canvas up from the street.

That top floor is the one most people ask about. It is the house casino now, and it has its own page, but from the pavement it looks exactly as it did in the drawings the town made in 1951.

Street elevation of the house on Rue Haute: the tall main house on the left and the lower shop wing on the right, with the hoist beam at the top of its gable. ATTIC ROOMS STREET ROOMS LIBRARY HALL HOIST BEAM SAIL LOFT COMPOSING THE OLD SHOP RUE HAUTE
The front as it stands: main house of 1786 on the left, the chandlery that became the print shop on the right.

Play happens in a single room of this house, the loft over the old shop, and in no other place. The Printed Room takes no bets online, opens no player accounts and handles no payments through this website.