History

The property situated in the Old Town of Piotrków Trybunalski was probably delineated when the layout of the old town was determined in the 14th century. Under the building, in the front part of the land plot, there are cellars probably dating to the 16th century. The structure of the roof truss suggests that the above-ground part of the building was probably built in the 19th century. In the early 20th century, the property was owned by Emanuel and Ruchla Sztainberg. In 1914, half of the property belonging to Emanuel was sold to Ruchla Zajdman, who in turn sold it to Izrael-Samuel Fiszlewicz. In 1938, the part belonging to Ruchla Szteinberg was inherited by her heirs. In 1939, both the Szteinberg family and the Fiszlewicz family sold their parts of the property to Tadeusz and Stanisław Michniewicz.

Description

The house is situated in the Old Town area, in the quarter delimited by the following streets: Farna, Zamkowa, Zamurowa and Starowarszawska. It is located on the second land plot from the intersection of Farna and Zamkowa Streets, in a continuously built-up area, in the eastern frontage of Farna Street. The land plot has the shape of an elongated rectangle and its easter part reaches Zamurowa Street. Within the land plot, there is also an outbuilding adjacent to the eastern wall of the house and utility buildings in the south-eastern corner. The building is accessible from Farna Street and from the yard through an entrance at No. 7a Zamurowa Street.

The features of the house are not representative of any style.

It follows an L-shaped floor plan. The southern wing is 2-bay, parallel to Farna Street, one-storey, cellared, covered with a gable roof. The northern wing is three-bay, one-storey, with a habitable attic. It is covered with a three-hipped roof with a pediment. The building has one entrance from the street and one from the yard. At the eastern elevation, there is an annex with an entrance to the cellars. The southern wing is two-storey, without cellars, with an annex containing a staircase at the eastern wall.

The building is made from solid ceramic bricks laid with lime mortar. It is plastered inside and outside with lime and cement-lime plaster, with a smooth float finish. A part of the interior is partitioned with secondary plasterboard walls with a frame structure. The walls of the annex containing the staircase are wooden, of a skeleton structure, vertically weatherboarded with boards butted together and covered with a narrow batten. In the cellars, there are barrel vaults perforated by lunettes, primary or created by being pierced in a bricked-up section. They are made from ceramic bricks laid with lime mortar. The above-ground storeys are covered with wooden beam ceilings with a soffit, coated with lime plaster with a reed mat as a plaster base.

The wooden roof truss is of a mixed type, with a rafter and purlin structure with sloping queen posts and a rafter-collar beam structure. The roofs are covered with coated steel roofing tiles.

In the cellars, there are concrete floors. In the rooms on the ground floor, there are terracotta and terrazzo floors. The stairs leading to the cellars are one-flight and straight, with an angle bracket strengthening the edge of the tread. The wooden stairs leading to the attic are one-flight and quarter-turn. In the southern outbuilding, there are stairs made of brick, one-flight and straight. The stairs in the southern outbuilding are made of brick, one-flight and straight.

On the ground floor in the front building, the windows in the northern part are made of steel, secured with metal bars. The other windows are jambed and two-wing, with each wing divided into two sections. The exterior door in the western elevation are wooden, two-wing, frame-panelled, partly glazed, with a transom light, secured with metal bars. The doors from the yard include wooden, two-wing and frame-panelled door and steel door.

The western elevation has six axes and parts of different height. The southern part is three-axial and one-storey. It is set on a low, grey plinth. On the third axis from the south, there is a rectangular entrance opening, topped by a segmental arch. The window openings are rectangular. The wall is highlighted by a cornice, above which the attic is rhythmically divided into three decorative panels. The northern part of the elevation is one-storey with a habitable attic. It is set on a low, grey plinth. The openings are rectangular. On the third axis from the north, there is a door. In the gable, there are two rectangular window openings in the attic. The elevation is painted white.

The eastern elevation is three-axial with rectangular window openings enclosed by surrounds topped with a profiled cornice. In the lower part of the elevation, there is an annex with an entrance to the cellar.

Private property. The building can be viewed from outside.

Compiled by Agnieszka Lorenc-Karczewska, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Łódź 29 April 2020

Bibliography

• Pietrzak J., Record sheet of monuments of architecture and construction, 1998, Voivodeship Monuments Protection Office in Łódź, National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Warsaw,
• Głowacki K., Urbanistyka Piotrkowa Trybunalskiego, Piotrków Trybunalski – Kielce 1984.