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Address: Eirinis 69 The building was constructed around 1890 and it was originally used as a residence. The original structure consisted of a central hall and four rooms –two on the left side and two on the right side of the hall. In addition to these, at the back of the main structure, there used to be a number of auxiliary structures. These were two rooms, a bathroom and a laundry room. The latter is a rudimentary construction built later. In front of the auxiliary rooms, there used to be a covered corridor connecting them with the main structure. The wall of the main façade on Eirinis street is built of stone and coated with lime plaster which was originally painted in ocher colour. There are stone frames at the two edges, at the centre where the entrance veranda is and around the windows. The rest of the walls are made of adobe with the exception of the internal walls which are constructed using the ‘Dolma’ system, which was common on Cypriot buildings of the era and consists of a wooden frame filled with various materials. The roof is made of timber and covered with French type tiles. There is a wooden ‘karkani’ at the front, back and side façade. The original roof of the auxiliary rooms, which was also made of timber and French tiles, had a slope towards the yard and was covering the external corridor too. Between the main and the auxiliary structure, there used to be a shelter made of timber and metal beams supported on the adobe walls and a stone column. The floor of the central room is covered with painted tiles while the floors of the rooms surrounding it and of the auxiliary rooms consist of wooden planks. The building was used as house and later as storage space. It was unoccupied, but on decent condition, for forty years until it was fully renovated in 2000 in order to accommodate the Kanali 6 radio station. During the renovation, the existing structures remained at their position and the required repairing, maintenance and conservation took place. An extension was added at the back of the auxiliary structures that includes three ground floor and two first floor rooms. During the renovation the roof was maintained with the worn tiles and timber being replaced, the fascias were replaced with exact replicas of the originals, due to their very bad condition, and the roofs of the auxiliary rooms and the connecting shelter were reconstructed. All exterior and interior coatings were maintained and reconstructed, when necessary, while the wooden door and windows were repaired and repainted with oil paint and the stone decorations were conserved. In the central room, the floor was levelled and the worn tiles were replaced with others of similar type and the wooden ceiling was maintained and repainted with its worn parts also being replaced. In the surrounding rooms, the wooden floors were totally removed and reconstructed with the same materials. The floors of the newly created sanitary areas were covered with tiles and the open side of the connecting corridor was closed with frameless glass between the timber columns with its floor being covered with white marble. The new construction, which has a flat roof, was built using a wooden frame, plasterboards and bricks. The building was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1982.