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Dwelling House, the XV-XIX centuries. Preservation Number #1662 | Foto
17 Dovga St.

At the end of the XV- at the beginning of the XVI centuries, it was situated with the indention from the red line of the building up of the street on 5.5 m, it was almost square in its plan (8.2�8.8 m), one-storied, with a basement. In 1700, it consisted of the dwelling room with an alcove and a kitchen. At the beginning of the XVIII century it was extend by the outhouse from the northern side, and at the beginning of the XIX century - in the western direction to the red line of the houses in the neighbourhood. In this period one more storey was built on, the western front got the ornament with typical elements of Baroque and Rococo. In the second half of the XIX century, it was completed from the east and became right-angled. In the middle of the XX century, an attic was arranged there.
Today, the building is stone, rectangular in its plan, two-stoired, plastered, and faces the red line of the building up by its butt-end. Planning of the ground and the first floor is similar. The basement is a corridor, 1.5 m wide, crooked a little in its shape, 18.5 m long, with adjoining chambers by its sides, it is covered with torispherical vaults. The entrance to the building is framed with pilasters of the lonic order. The angles of the building on the ground floor are underlined by simple shovel, turning into the pilasters with capitals on the first floor, which supported a profiled cornice, decorated with modelled corbels. The embrasures are decorated with door casing with sandricks. The socle of the building is plastered with simulation of rustication. The building is crowned with a pyramidal roof with interception.
The monument charecterises the city building up of the end of the XVIII - the second half of the XIX century.

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Translated by Yana Anufriyeva
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