Architecture of the house in Český Krumlov
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The house is a storey building with an asymmetric ground plan and a hip roof covered with burnt roofing. Due to uphill terrain of the parcel, cellar rooms in the front part of the building become subbasement. All rooms on the cellar and the ground floor level are arched, on the first floor the rooms have flat ceilings. The frontispiece is structured with lisenas that pass on all walls and upper cymatium into richly shaped principal moulding. Ground floor of the northwest face of the building is structured with bossage. Window openings are framed with plat-bands, decoratively ornamented with tassels, volutes, stylized shells, and saddlecloths parapet panels.
In medieval times a ground floor house stood here, which was restricted by the space in the lines of the next-door building number 99. This building is also of medieval origin and until 1893 it was a part of our house as a ground floor building.
During Renaissance period the building was extended and pushed forward the line of the building number 99. New large cellar room originated (present dining room) as well as equally large festive room (living room of the apartment No. 1) on the ground floor. Staircase from the hall to the cellar was probably created at that time.
In the 18th century, the storey together with the staircase was annexed. According to the character of plastering this happened rather in the early 18th century. Facing got baroque appearance. In the period of Classicism, construction work was reduced just to the facade.
Historically valuable components of the house:
- cellar and ground floor medieval and renaissance rooms and construction
- stone door case with a simple band (initials I.L. and the year 1692 are remarkable on the door case lintel)
- stone window case with preserved hooks of window shutters
- brick pavement of the entry room
- double-framed roof, which has similar construction as a roof truss in the neighbour house No. 99 from the time after 1893, though our roof truss is older
- composite chimneys so called “trousers” (probably of classicist origin)
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