ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

It is a large two-storey house of the so-called ‘koshel’ type with a working part dislodged on the longitudinal axis. Both floors were used as dwelling quarters, in summer people even lived in attic rooms (svetelkas). The windows of those attic rooms open to the balconies on the northern and western facade walls.

A five-wall framework with a slightly skewed inner wall protrudes 4.58 m to the south over the edge line of the working area of the house. There are four front ‘izbas’ inside the framework. Two ‘izbas’ of the southwestern part of the house are lit through windows, each living room having six of them. There are fewer windows in the southeastern part of the five-wall framework. A lower ‘izba’ has three windows on the southern side, and the ground floor ‘izba’ has four. The protrusive part of the house is covered with a symmetrical roof fixed with the logs making up the pediments and the poles bearing roof timber, while the roof over the main part of the building is asymmetrical. The southern framework is adjoined by a large anteroom (‘seni’). A two-storey gallery of the anteroom has a porch on the ground floor, which is located near the front ‘izbas’. The decorative balcony of an attic room (‘svetelka’) is above the porch. From the left, the anteroom is joined with two northern ‘izbas’ on the ground and the first floors. The working area and a shed are located to the north-east of the dwelling quarters of the house. The western side of the working area is adjoined by cattle-sheds.