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Address:Obispo 117-119 e/ Oficios y Mercaderes, Habana Vieja
Construction date:1648 |
Current use:
This primitive two-story house corresponds to all the characteristics of a stately house of the 17th Century, although some elements have been added in past times.
A small courtyard is the centre of the space organization and ventilates and lights the different premises of the building. Also, through this courtyard there is access to the downstairs and upstairs rooms.
The main rows of rooms are in L-shaped and they communicate with the courtyard through corridors located in both stories. In the upper floor, the access is complemented with two flat roofs arranged parallel to those corridors.
The premises roofed with independent battens are spacious in spite of the predominant low prop; especially the room located upstairs facing the street. Annexed to this room, the highest premise is located and it is an evocation of the watchtower of Moorish constructions.
The façade with marked proportions distinguishes its front without adorn, the balconies closed with shapely wooden rails and the touch of the tiled roof.
A singular detail of this building is the arc of two volutes that dominates the access door which is a clear antecedent of the arcs of straight and curved lines used in our architecture of the 18th Century.
