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STR_217
Address: Megalou Alexandrou 21
1st historical phase:
The building was constructed around 1920 (in 1925 according to DLS ) and in its original typology was a characteristic example of a traditional ground floor house of the historic core of Strovolos. It has been used as a house through all of its lifetime and it is occupied today.
It consisted of the three basic rooms -hall, dining room and bedroom- and two auxiliary rooms -kitchen and bathroom. Its main façade is located along the street border while the main entrance leads directly to the central room -the sun hall- where doors on both sides give access to the other rooms.
The building is built partly from local sandstone and partly from adobe. The roof is duo pitched and consists of timber beams and roman tiles.
The house is built on a neo-classical style, with influences from rural Cypriot architecture.
An interesting element of the building is the carved stone frame of the entrance door with its wrought iron skylight. In addition, at the cellar room there are roof beams made of original tree trunks.
2nd historical phase:
At some point, between its construction date and 2005, a number of interventions took place that corrupted the character of the building. In particular, the roof tiles were replaced by asbestos sheets, the original flooring and the window sills were replaced by mosaic and cement plaster was added at the walls.
The DLS portal mentions a renovation in 1994 which describes as ‘full’, for which there is no details at all at the Municipality file. It could be a system error or it could refer to the aforementioned renovation.
The house was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 2004.
3rd historical phase:
It was renovated in 2007. The renovation included a restoration of the existing structure as well as an addition of a two-story extension to accommodate two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
This renovation included, among others:
• Repair, cleaning, maintenance and completion of the external masonry and restoration to its original form
• Removal of all incompatible plasters from exposed stone masonry and reconstruction of completely existing traditional coatings (of plaster-straw type)
• Demolition of subsequently added elements such as the bathroom and the wall under the arc
• Removal of the asbestos roof and reconstruction of the roof to its original form and at the correct elevation.
• Repair of the entrance gate and of the carved stone portal
• Demolition of a part of the old masonry:
o between the proposed kitchen and the dual-chamber
o to create blind shallow frames
• Addition of a fireplace
• Construction of an additional two-story building, to house two bedrooms and two bathrooms, at the west side of the plot so that the two buildings together form an ‘L’ shape. The building is made out of a metal structure and light concrete blocks.
• Lengthening of the façade windows to preserve the original traditional proportions
• Lengthening and widening of the doors at the south side to increase natural lighting
• Addition of sunshades in the yard
• Addition of paving at the yard
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LIM_634
Address: 28is Oktovriou 257
The building was constructed some time before 1878, during the Ottoman period in Cyprus, and before the construction of the nearby St. Catherine’s catholic church. The construction of the church was completed in 1879, although the Franciscan monastery, just behind the church, was already built. John Thompson includes a photo of the building in his collection ‘Through Cyprus with the camera in the autumn of 1878 ’. Today, its main façade is on the seafront avenue of Limassol.
In its original form the building had a protruding covered wooden balcony -the so-called sahnisi- on the front façade of the first floor, and had the exact same topology with the building attached on its west side. The balcony was covered by a tiled canopy, supported on timber diagonals. The front door had a pointed lintel. During this period, the building was probably used as a wine cellar and shop, on the ground floor, and as a residence, at the first floor. A number of pointed arches in its interior supported the horizontal elements.
In the interwar period, the front door lintel was replaced with a horizontal one.
Some time, definitely before the start of the 1960s, the sunshade canopy was removed.
During the 1960s, the wooden balcony was demolished and replaced by a reinforced concrete cantilever. In addition, a number of walls were erected in the interior of the ground floor in order for the large space to be divided into smaller rooms and a number of rooms on the back side, on both floors, were demolished and rebuilt. This is related to the transformation of the ground floor to a separate house. At that time, a number of other changes -probably related to the widening of Ierousalim st.- were proposed for the east façade of the building, that were never implemented.
A number of the arches were, at some point, replaced by classic-looking architectural elements.
At some point, the attached identical building was demolished and an apartment block was erected on its position.
The building has a large back yard, surrounded by a stone fencing.
A rare pebbled floor can be still found today at the ground level.
It was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1992.
It used to be the house of the consul of Spain, Leonidas Papadopoulos, hence it was known as ‘The consul’s house’ in the local community. His daughter, Konstantia, and his son, the actor Christos Papadopoulos, donated the property to the Municipality of Limassol. Their wish was to establish a museum at the ground floor, a research and culture centre at the first floor and a public park at the large backyard.
- 5 2 9 139 0
STR_337
Agiou Georgiou 40
It is a single-storey building made of stone and adobe. The roof is duo pitched and consists of timber beams and roman tiles. A part of it is two-storey.
The building is a typical example of traditional folk architecture (farm-house) organised along the free space. Its value is very significant because it is one of the very few (if not the only one) of this type in the historic core of Strovolos. It was constructed at the end of the 19th century (probably in the 1890’s, or in 1910 according to DLS).
The building has arches, a sun hall and two upstairs rooms. The sun hall acts as a transitional zone from the outside to the inside. The rooms are organised around the sun hall. A concrete staircase exists along the volume, that leads upstairs, through a timber balcony.
The building has an active relationship with the outside space while the sun hall with its arch create a shady cool space. The openings are made of wooden elements.
It was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1993 and is abandoned today.
In 2012, a building permit was issued according to which the building would be maintained and restored and some additions would be made in order for it to be used as a cultural centre. The permit was never executed, probably because of the financial struggle of the Municipality.
In February 2020, the owners asked again from the Municipality to undertake the renovation of the building in order to be reused to for cultural reasons or to cover some municipality’s needs (e.g. as a museum or air-conditioned/heated space or guesthouse).
- 5 2 23 147 0
LIM_1075
Address: Agiou Andreou 253 & Othonos kai Amalias
The two-storey building was constructed at the beginning of the 1920s. It used to accommodate two individual residences, one in each floor. Its main façade is symmetrical and on the Agiou Andreou street. The entrance to the first floor is possible via a stone staircase at the side of the building.
The façades of the building are of very elaborate construction with numerus decorative stone elements. The architect-constructor who designed them tried to mimic the neoclassical models, already used in the public buildings of the period. In addition, at the centre of the main façade, a stereotype of Limassol’s bourgeois dwellings was reproduced: the loggia, behind a balcony which is supported by elaborate corbels. Particular attention was also given on the carved stone decorative details above the roof which can be found on the centre of the main façade and on the four corners.
During the first decades of its life, the building’s use was residential. It was later bought by Ioannis Schizas, a merchant dealer from Alexandria. Schizas rented the first floor to the family of Ioannis Kolakides and this is where his son Fotis Kolakides, architect and future Limassol mayor during the period 1973-1986, was raised up. In 1958, Schizas donated the building to the Municipality and it was used as the Municipal Nursing Home. It was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1984 and in 1985, during Kolakides’ mayorship, its full renovation was completed in order for the ground floor to house the Folk-Art Museum and the first floor the Theatre Archives. The restoration project received the Europa Nostra award in 1988. Today, the Museum can still be found on the ground floor while the first floor is the seat of the Culture Services of the Municipality.
- 5 2 26 131 0
STR_131
Address: Dimitras 1 & Stadiou
The building is a corner single-strorey house that was erected around 1910, according to DLS. It is an example of urban vernacular architecture with neoclassical elements and it is considered to have an outstanding architectural value.
Its load bearing construction is made of stonework, coated with gravels, while adobe was used for the walls. On the façade, columns and beams are visible. Its hipped roof consists of a timber structure covered with byzantine-type tiles. The cornice is made of carved stone. The windows have movable blinds while the door has an ironwork and a skylight. The frames of the entrance door and the main façade windows are also made of carved stone.
The most interesting elements of the building are its covered veranda with a series of columns on both sides of the main face to the street and the stone carved façade, as well as the painted tiles on the exterior and interior floors.
The house consists of two verandas, a sitting room, five rooms, a hallway, a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet, a garage and a yard with trees. The central interior sun room leads to the veranda on the backside.
In 1998, the four sandstone façade columns were demolished and concrete columns coated with stone were erected in their place. The stone surrounding wall was also demolished and replaced with an enclosure made of metal wire. These alterations were part of converting the house into the seat of an association.
The building was returned to its original residential use some time in the years to follow.
It has been recently included in the catalogue of listed buildings.
- 5 2 26 138 0
STR_215
Address: Prodromou 10 & Megalou Alexandrou
The building was constructed in the interwar period (in 1934, according to DLS). It was originally used as a residence and consisted of a hall, five rooms, a cellar, a small cooking area, a sanitary space, two verandas a laundry room and a covered area in the yard.
External and internal walls are made of adobe, the load bearing structure is made of stone and the roof is made of wood and tiles.
The property is a listed building since 1992.
Around 2000, the building was renovated and its use was changed to offices. Τhe renovation consisted of a general maintenance of the building as well as internal and external conversions that included changes in floors, walls, roofs and frames.
The exterior stone walls were cleaned, repaired, maintained and completed and then, restored to their original form. New interior and exterior plaster coatings were constructed. The floors, frames and other morphological elements were maintained and restored according to the standards of traditional architecture.
In the interior, a part of the existing traditional masonry wall on the northeast auxiliary wing was demolished and a new wall was constructed to create kitchen, bathroom and shower areas.
Roof works included the reconstruction and modification of the roof on the east-rear part of the main building and on the northeast wing. During this process, the original tiles were removed and only the non-damaged ones were put back along with new tiled similar to the original.
On the southeast auxiliary building, the small external room was demolished and, on its place, a new shower room was constructed.
Other exterior works included the construction of new steps at the entrance of the building, the modification of external openings to the plot’s yard and the widening of the existing opening of the plot’s surrounding wall
In 2009 the use of the building was changed once more, becoming a private language school.
- 5 2 27 130 0
STR_290
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 .
- 5 2 27 125 0
LIM_467
Address: Agkiras 84
The building is located on Agkiras street, the heart of the social and commercial life of the Turkish community of Limassol, before its relocation. It is unclear when the building was built, although it must be around 1940. The original use of the building was mixed residential and commercial, as it is the case with the most buildings of this street.
The walls of the structure are made of stone and adobe while the roof consists of timber and tiles. All door and window frames are made of wood. Interesting elements of the building include the curved furrows, the false columns of the façade, the skylights and the arches on the façade and in the interior.
Originally, each of the four arc frames next to the main entrance used to have a wooden door that provided access to the shops of the ground floor. The first-floor timber balcony (sahnisi) in the inner yard of the north side is a newer addition.
It was declared a listed building in 1988.
In 1998, in an agreement with the Turkish Cypriot Property Management Service, the building was leased to a Greek Cypriot in order to be renovated and transformed into an art gallery. The renovation included a total repairing and conservation of the building as well as modifications in the interior spaces.
In particular the renovation, completed after 2000, included the complete repair and conservation of the building façade. The exterior masonry was cleaned, repaired, completed and restored to its original form. The arch openings of the façade were closed with glass. Visible stone was cleaned and already existing timber was maintained and had its worn parts replaced. The frames, doors, floors and other morphological elements were restored and reconstructed according to their original condition and the traditional standards of the area and the floor was also levelled. The roof was repaired and conserved by removing and repositioning the tiles. The existing traditional coatings were repaired and reconstructed.
In order for the building to function as gallery, a number of new spaces were required. In the interior, several dividing walls were erected and others were demolished to divide or unite spaces. In more detail, the shops of the ground floor were integrated with the sun room to create a bigger exhibition area which was connected to the new office and kitchen spaces by creating new openings. On the exterior, a new toilet and warehouse was constructed at the back of the building.
- 5 2 25 144 0
LIM_744
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.
- 5 2 28 128 0
LIM_541
Address: Saripolou 32-36 & Giagkou Potamiti
The building is located at the intersection of Saripolou and Giagkou Potamiti streets, right next to the town hall of Limassol in the town centre. It is a modernist building, erected after 1940. Originally, it was probably accommodating two residences on the first floor and an office and a shop on the ground floor.
Its longer façade on Saripolou street is dominated by two horizontal zones corresponding to the two floors and the vertical staircase zone that extends to a third floor to provide access to the roof. At the intersection of the two streets, the building follows a curved path which is highlighted further with curved balconies and railings on the first floor and the roof.
The building is today part of a complex of buildings around the town hall that are linked to it and house municipal services. More specifically, its first floor is where the technical department of the municipality functions.
- 5 2 18 124 0
STR_566
Address: Stadiou 26
The property is a two-storey house that was built in 1940, according to DLS.
The walls of the house originally included parts of visible masonry, carved stone and adobe. At some point, in order to complete or replace the roof, concrete columns and slabs were built. In addition, a toilet was added at the exterior space. The roofing system consists of wooden beams and venetian tiles. The floors are made of wooden planks in some rooms and of painted tiles in others.
The building was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1992.
The house was renovated around 2004 in order to improve its functionality and the comfort of its users, while at the same time maintaining the traditional character of the building by refitting and highlighting its elements that were worn down or neglected through the years.
The works included a small extension of the kitchen, conversions in the interior and creation of sanitary spaces on the ground floor and first floor. To realise these, new interior walls were constructed while a part of the interior traditional masonry on the first floor was demolished to create a passage from the sun room to the bedroom.
The stone masonry, the adobe and the visible stone were restored while the traditionally coated surfaces, were repaired and coated again. On the interior surfaces, gypsum coatings were applied and, on the exterior, lime coatings.
The roof was rebuilt on a similar way to the original while the cornices as well as the horizontal and vertical gutter on the façade were also reconstructed. The frames of the door and windows were restored.
The authentic colourings on walls and doors were revealed and repeated. In addition, for the newly created spaces, colours that match the ones in the original spaces were used.
All the wooden board floors were replaced with new ones and the painted tiles were removed, repaired and cleaned, and placed back on their original positions.
- 5 2 27 145 0
STR_230
Address: Archiepiskopou Kyprianou 81 & Agiasmatos
The building, originally used as a house, is a single-floor stone structure with a hip tile roof. The building material is local sandstone while the roof is made of timber beams and french tiles.
It was built in 1906. On the ironwork above the front door, 1909 is mentioned as the date of construction (it was constructed in 1910 according to DLS). It is of neoclassical style.
Its corner location in relation to the main street and the Chryseleousa church creates a continuous view of its two main facades. The continuity of the same surface on both sides is highlighted by the equal distance of the openings from the corner and from the special configuration of the corner itself.
The front side is emphasized by additional decorations inserted in the openings’ frames and the entrance. Apart from the neoclassical elements, there are also some Venetian remains in the elongated openings on both sides of the entrance. The entrance itself has an arched end with pilasters defining its two sides.
Particular importance is given to the verticality, especially around the entrance with false columns as well as in the various openings. The horizontal lines are accentuated at the base and the top of the building where they turn and continue to the other side.
The main building is accompanied by three auxiliary buildings, one of which is attached to it and can be seen from the street. Those buildings are made from adobe.
The building is part of a group of 46 Strovolos buildings that were included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1992.
The building is today used as a pottery workshop.
- 5 2 25 157 0
1st historical phase:
The building was constructed around 1920 (in 1925 according to DLS ) and in its original typology was a characteristic example of a traditional ground floor house of the historic core of Strovolos. It has been used as a house through all of its lifetime and it is occupied today.
It consisted of the three basic rooms -hall, dining room and bedroom- and two auxiliary rooms -kitchen and bathroom. Its main façade is located along the street border while the main entrance leads directly to the central room -the sun hall- where doors on both sides give access to the other rooms.
The building is built partly from local sandstone and partly from adobe. The roof is duo pitched and consists of timber beams and roman tiles.
The house is built on a neo-classical style, with influences from rural Cypriot architecture.
An interesting element of the building is the carved stone frame of the entrance door with its wrought iron skylight. In addition, at the cellar room there are roof beams made of original tree trunks.
2nd historical phase:
At some point, between its construction date and 2005, a number of interventions took place that corrupted the character of the building. In particular, the roof tiles were replaced by asbestos sheets, the original flooring and the window sills were replaced by mosaic and cement plaster was added at the walls.
The DLS portal mentions a renovation in 1994 which describes as ‘full’, for which there is no details at all at the Municipality file. It could be a system error or it could refer to the aforementioned renovation.
The house was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 2004.
3rd historical phase:
It was renovated in 2007. The renovation included a restoration of the existing structure as well as an addition of a two-story extension to accommodate two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
This renovation included, among others:
• Repair, cleaning, maintenance and completion of the external masonry and restoration to its original form
• Removal of all incompatible plasters from exposed stone masonry and reconstruction of completely existing traditional coatings (of plaster-straw type)
• Demolition of subsequently added elements such as the bathroom and the wall under the arc
• Removal of the asbestos roof and reconstruction of the roof to its original form and at the correct elevation.
• Repair of the entrance gate and of the carved stone portal
• Demolition of a part of the old masonry:
o between the proposed kitchen and the dual-chamber
o to create blind shallow frames
• Addition of a fireplace
• Construction of an additional two-story building, to house two bedrooms and two bathrooms, at the west side of the plot so that the two buildings together form an ‘L’ shape. The building is made out of a metal structure and light concrete blocks.
• Lengthening of the façade windows to preserve the original traditional proportions
• Lengthening and widening of the doors at the south side to increase natural lighting
• Addition of sunshades in the yard
• Addition of paving at the yard
The building was constructed some time before 1878, during the Ottoman period in Cyprus, and before the construction of the nearby St. Catherine’s catholic church. The construction of the church was completed in 1879, although the Franciscan monastery, just behind the church, was already built. John Thompson includes a photo of the building in his collection ‘Through Cyprus with the camera in the autumn of 1878 ’. Today, its main façade is on the seafront avenue of Limassol.
In its original form the building had a protruding covered wooden balcony -the so-called sahnisi- on the front façade of the first floor, and had the exact same topology with the building attached on its west side. The balcony was covered by a tiled canopy, supported on timber diagonals. The front door had a pointed lintel. During this period, the building was probably used as a wine cellar and shop, on the ground floor, and as a residence, at the first floor. A number of pointed arches in its interior supported the horizontal elements.
In the interwar period, the front door lintel was replaced with a horizontal one.
Some time, definitely before the start of the 1960s, the sunshade canopy was removed.
During the 1960s, the wooden balcony was demolished and replaced by a reinforced concrete cantilever. In addition, a number of walls were erected in the interior of the ground floor in order for the large space to be divided into smaller rooms and a number of rooms on the back side, on both floors, were demolished and rebuilt. This is related to the transformation of the ground floor to a separate house. At that time, a number of other changes -probably related to the widening of Ierousalim st.- were proposed for the east façade of the building, that were never implemented.
A number of the arches were, at some point, replaced by classic-looking architectural elements.
At some point, the attached identical building was demolished and an apartment block was erected on its position.
The building has a large back yard, surrounded by a stone fencing.
A rare pebbled floor can be still found today at the ground level.
It was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1992.
It used to be the house of the consul of Spain, Leonidas Papadopoulos, hence it was known as ‘The consul’s house’ in the local community. His daughter, Konstantia, and his son, the actor Christos Papadopoulos, donated the property to the Municipality of Limassol. Their wish was to establish a museum at the ground floor, a research and culture centre at the first floor and a public park at the large backyard.
It is a single-storey building made of stone and adobe. The roof is duo pitched and consists of timber beams and roman tiles. A part of it is two-storey.
The building is a typical example of traditional folk architecture (farm-house) organised along the free space. Its value is very significant because it is one of the very few (if not the only one) of this type in the historic core of Strovolos. It was constructed at the end of the 19th century (probably in the 1890’s, or in 1910 according to DLS).
The building has arches, a sun hall and two upstairs rooms. The sun hall acts as a transitional zone from the outside to the inside. The rooms are organised around the sun hall. A concrete staircase exists along the volume, that leads upstairs, through a timber balcony.
The building has an active relationship with the outside space while the sun hall with its arch create a shady cool space. The openings are made of wooden elements.
It was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1993 and is abandoned today.
In 2012, a building permit was issued according to which the building would be maintained and restored and some additions would be made in order for it to be used as a cultural centre. The permit was never executed, probably because of the financial struggle of the Municipality.
In February 2020, the owners asked again from the Municipality to undertake the renovation of the building in order to be reused to for cultural reasons or to cover some municipality’s needs (e.g. as a museum or air-conditioned/heated space or guesthouse).
The two-storey building was constructed at the beginning of the 1920s. It used to accommodate two individual residences, one in each floor. Its main façade is symmetrical and on the Agiou Andreou street. The entrance to the first floor is possible via a stone staircase at the side of the building.
The façades of the building are of very elaborate construction with numerus decorative stone elements. The architect-constructor who designed them tried to mimic the neoclassical models, already used in the public buildings of the period. In addition, at the centre of the main façade, a stereotype of Limassol’s bourgeois dwellings was reproduced: the loggia, behind a balcony which is supported by elaborate corbels. Particular attention was also given on the carved stone decorative details above the roof which can be found on the centre of the main façade and on the four corners.
During the first decades of its life, the building’s use was residential. It was later bought by Ioannis Schizas, a merchant dealer from Alexandria. Schizas rented the first floor to the family of Ioannis Kolakides and this is where his son Fotis Kolakides, architect and future Limassol mayor during the period 1973-1986, was raised up. In 1958, Schizas donated the building to the Municipality and it was used as the Municipal Nursing Home. It was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1984 and in 1985, during Kolakides’ mayorship, its full renovation was completed in order for the ground floor to house the Folk-Art Museum and the first floor the Theatre Archives. The restoration project received the Europa Nostra award in 1988. Today, the Museum can still be found on the ground floor while the first floor is the seat of the Culture Services of the Municipality.
The building is a corner single-strorey house that was erected around 1910, according to DLS. It is an example of urban vernacular architecture with neoclassical elements and it is considered to have an outstanding architectural value.
Its load bearing construction is made of stonework, coated with gravels, while adobe was used for the walls. On the façade, columns and beams are visible. Its hipped roof consists of a timber structure covered with byzantine-type tiles. The cornice is made of carved stone. The windows have movable blinds while the door has an ironwork and a skylight. The frames of the entrance door and the main façade windows are also made of carved stone.
The most interesting elements of the building are its covered veranda with a series of columns on both sides of the main face to the street and the stone carved façade, as well as the painted tiles on the exterior and interior floors.
The house consists of two verandas, a sitting room, five rooms, a hallway, a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet, a garage and a yard with trees. The central interior sun room leads to the veranda on the backside.
In 1998, the four sandstone façade columns were demolished and concrete columns coated with stone were erected in their place. The stone surrounding wall was also demolished and replaced with an enclosure made of metal wire. These alterations were part of converting the house into the seat of an association.
The building was returned to its original residential use some time in the years to follow.
It has been recently included in the catalogue of listed buildings.
The building was constructed in the interwar period (in 1934, according to DLS). It was originally used as a residence and consisted of a hall, five rooms, a cellar, a small cooking area, a sanitary space, two verandas a laundry room and a covered area in the yard.
External and internal walls are made of adobe, the load bearing structure is made of stone and the roof is made of wood and tiles.
The property is a listed building since 1992.
Around 2000, the building was renovated and its use was changed to offices. Τhe renovation consisted of a general maintenance of the building as well as internal and external conversions that included changes in floors, walls, roofs and frames.
The exterior stone walls were cleaned, repaired, maintained and completed and then, restored to their original form. New interior and exterior plaster coatings were constructed. The floors, frames and other morphological elements were maintained and restored according to the standards of traditional architecture.
In the interior, a part of the existing traditional masonry wall on the northeast auxiliary wing was demolished and a new wall was constructed to create kitchen, bathroom and shower areas.
Roof works included the reconstruction and modification of the roof on the east-rear part of the main building and on the northeast wing. During this process, the original tiles were removed and only the non-damaged ones were put back along with new tiled similar to the original.
On the southeast auxiliary building, the small external room was demolished and, on its place, a new shower room was constructed.
Other exterior works included the construction of new steps at the entrance of the building, the modification of external openings to the plot’s yard and the widening of the existing opening of the plot’s surrounding wall
In 2009 the use of the building was changed once more, becoming a private language school.
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 .
The building is located on Agkiras street, the heart of the social and commercial life of the Turkish community of Limassol, before its relocation. It is unclear when the building was built, although it must be around 1940. The original use of the building was mixed residential and commercial, as it is the case with the most buildings of this street.
The walls of the structure are made of stone and adobe while the roof consists of timber and tiles. All door and window frames are made of wood. Interesting elements of the building include the curved furrows, the false columns of the façade, the skylights and the arches on the façade and in the interior.
Originally, each of the four arc frames next to the main entrance used to have a wooden door that provided access to the shops of the ground floor. The first-floor timber balcony (sahnisi) in the inner yard of the north side is a newer addition.
It was declared a listed building in 1988.
In 1998, in an agreement with the Turkish Cypriot Property Management Service, the building was leased to a Greek Cypriot in order to be renovated and transformed into an art gallery. The renovation included a total repairing and conservation of the building as well as modifications in the interior spaces.
In particular the renovation, completed after 2000, included the complete repair and conservation of the building façade. The exterior masonry was cleaned, repaired, completed and restored to its original form. The arch openings of the façade were closed with glass. Visible stone was cleaned and already existing timber was maintained and had its worn parts replaced. The frames, doors, floors and other morphological elements were restored and reconstructed according to their original condition and the traditional standards of the area and the floor was also levelled. The roof was repaired and conserved by removing and repositioning the tiles. The existing traditional coatings were repaired and reconstructed.
In order for the building to function as gallery, a number of new spaces were required. In the interior, several dividing walls were erected and others were demolished to divide or unite spaces. In more detail, the shops of the ground floor were integrated with the sun room to create a bigger exhibition area which was connected to the new office and kitchen spaces by creating new openings. On the exterior, a new toilet and warehouse was constructed at the back of the building.
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.
The building is located at the intersection of Saripolou and Giagkou Potamiti streets, right next to the town hall of Limassol in the town centre. It is a modernist building, erected after 1940. Originally, it was probably accommodating two residences on the first floor and an office and a shop on the ground floor.
Its longer façade on Saripolou street is dominated by two horizontal zones corresponding to the two floors and the vertical staircase zone that extends to a third floor to provide access to the roof. At the intersection of the two streets, the building follows a curved path which is highlighted further with curved balconies and railings on the first floor and the roof.
The building is today part of a complex of buildings around the town hall that are linked to it and house municipal services. More specifically, its first floor is where the technical department of the municipality functions.
The property is a two-storey house that was built in 1940, according to DLS.
The walls of the house originally included parts of visible masonry, carved stone and adobe. At some point, in order to complete or replace the roof, concrete columns and slabs were built. In addition, a toilet was added at the exterior space. The roofing system consists of wooden beams and venetian tiles. The floors are made of wooden planks in some rooms and of painted tiles in others.
The building was included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1992.
The house was renovated around 2004 in order to improve its functionality and the comfort of its users, while at the same time maintaining the traditional character of the building by refitting and highlighting its elements that were worn down or neglected through the years.
The works included a small extension of the kitchen, conversions in the interior and creation of sanitary spaces on the ground floor and first floor. To realise these, new interior walls were constructed while a part of the interior traditional masonry on the first floor was demolished to create a passage from the sun room to the bedroom.
The stone masonry, the adobe and the visible stone were restored while the traditionally coated surfaces, were repaired and coated again. On the interior surfaces, gypsum coatings were applied and, on the exterior, lime coatings.
The roof was rebuilt on a similar way to the original while the cornices as well as the horizontal and vertical gutter on the façade were also reconstructed. The frames of the door and windows were restored.
The authentic colourings on walls and doors were revealed and repeated. In addition, for the newly created spaces, colours that match the ones in the original spaces were used.
All the wooden board floors were replaced with new ones and the painted tiles were removed, repaired and cleaned, and placed back on their original positions.
The building, originally used as a house, is a single-floor stone structure with a hip tile roof. The building material is local sandstone while the roof is made of timber beams and french tiles.
It was built in 1906. On the ironwork above the front door, 1909 is mentioned as the date of construction (it was constructed in 1910 according to DLS). It is of neoclassical style.
Its corner location in relation to the main street and the Chryseleousa church creates a continuous view of its two main facades. The continuity of the same surface on both sides is highlighted by the equal distance of the openings from the corner and from the special configuration of the corner itself.
The front side is emphasized by additional decorations inserted in the openings’ frames and the entrance. Apart from the neoclassical elements, there are also some Venetian remains in the elongated openings on both sides of the entrance. The entrance itself has an arched end with pilasters defining its two sides.
Particular importance is given to the verticality, especially around the entrance with false columns as well as in the various openings. The horizontal lines are accentuated at the base and the top of the building where they turn and continue to the other side.
The main building is accompanied by three auxiliary buildings, one of which is attached to it and can be seen from the street. Those buildings are made from adobe.
The building is part of a group of 46 Strovolos buildings that were included in the catalogue of listed buildings in 1992.
The building is today used as a pottery workshop.