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Address: Korsikis 5 The building was constructed in 1930, according to DLS, although it is probably oldest since the date 1920 appears on the metal decoration of the skylight above the main entrance door. The property, originally a residence, is a ground floor building with its eastern part having two storeys. The main north and the west façade are on the road border. The ground floor includes a central sun-room, four rooms, a cooking area and a toilet while on the floor there is an additional room which is accessed via an internal wooden stairway on the east room. The four square-shaped rooms on both sides of the sun room have been, at some time, merged into two larger rectangular rooms. The building’s walls are made of adobe on a 50 cm stone base, covered with plaster. The floor room has access to a wooden uncovered balcony, on the back yard, originally supported on timber poles. There is a marble floor on the ground floor and a plank floor on the first floor. On the gable roofs there are venetian tiles. Peculiar elements of the building are the interventions of different periods and the stone decorative details on some features. The main entrance has a geometrical carved frame of Limassol stone , a double door and a skylight with handmade metal decoration. The pointed arc on the other end of the sun room is built of the same hard stone. During the years some interventions changed the traditional character of the building. The arch was closed, the balcony was supported on horizontal beams and most of the window frames were changed. It was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 2003 because of its exceptional architecture value. In 2007 there was a renovation and a partial change of use so that the building also includes an art workshop for painting and sculpturing on the ground floor. This renovation concerned the cleaning, repair, maintenance and competition of the external and internal adobe masonry and restoration to its original form, repair and reconstruction of the existing traditional coatings and construction of new plasterboard interior walls on the floor. The existing roofs were also repaired and restored as they originally were with timber beams and tiles. Additionally, the frames, doors and other morphological elements were maintained and restored to their original condition and according the traditional standards of the period and the Strovolos area. Finally, all the facades were restored .