History

The two-floor terraced house of the passage type with a classical nine-bay façade decorated with high-order pilasters, double piano nobile windows and sill cornices was built on older foundations by reconstruction according to the plans of A. Hellmich from 1852, modified by Josef Liebl.

photos before reconstruction

The two-floor terraced tenement consists of a rectangular street wing and two additional perpendicular wings, the overall layout being U-shaped. The main façade fronting the street has eight window bays and is divided by a high pilaster row passing through the first and second floors. The pilasters have composite heads. The ground floor is articulated by a banded bossage and divided by rectangular windows serving as shopfronts. On the left, there is a wide passageway arched with segmental barrel vaulting. The upper floors feature simple and compound double windows, rectangular, right-angled, flanked by chambranles with a continuous cornice above the windows. Windows without a cornice on the upper floors. The façade is horizontally divided by cordon cornices and closed with a profiled crown cornice.

photos before reconstruction

The courtyard part of the house consists of galleries. The left wing features a courtyard gallery, the staircase to the first floor boasts a decorated cast-iron handrail. The right wing is prismatic without a gallery. Only the left wing has a basement floor, Prussian striped vaults, with barrel segmentation. The street wing is two-tract, the courtyard wings are single-tract.

This valuable Classicist house, valued for its original plan and material structure, is a testament to the initial development of Vyšehradská Street.

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HISTORY

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