French-style mansion of indianos in Colombres

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The first building corresponds to a mansion listed as Indiano architecture, included in the IPAA (Inventory of the Artistic Heritage of Asturias), with integral protection grade 1. It is a building of good workmanship, built in 1887 by the French architect Eduard Brudard, noted for its sobriety and packaging with exposed ashlars arranged in rope and tizón framing of openings and corners. It is structured on two floors with a sloping roof, with an important central staircase that gives access to the complex, which starts from a large entrance hall. It has a rectangular floor plan with a built area of around 1,000^m2. It has 12 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, several living rooms and a large dining room.

The construction conserves rooms with high ceilings, terracotta floors on the ground floor and wooden floors on the upper floor and in the attic, windows with wooden shutters, wooden panelled doors topped with leaded stained-glass windows and, in the living room, a fireplace with a stone masonry fireplace decorated with an emblazoned coat of arms.

In the entrance hall, the floor is made of large stone ashlars and the walls are lined with wooden panelled wood panelling, decorated with rosettes, which extends towards the staircase, also lined with the same wood that also frames the door frames of the different rooms, as well as the pillars and the ceiling beams.

The walls of the dining room feature wood in the ceiling beams and in a half-height frieze with a ribbed design. The kitchen retains the design of centuries past and is notable for the original hydraulic tiled floor, which is also present in the bathrooms.

The second building on the estate, also listed in the IPAA with comprehensive protection of lower grade, is a set of housing, stables and barns with a large courtyard at the front, where there are also two separate outbuildings, which were once used for housing services (woodshed, slaughter, etc.) as well as two roofs. It has a constructed surface area of approximately 2,270^m2 distributed over two floors. The door and window openings are framed in ashlar stone, of which material are also the dove’s breasts that adorn it, as well as a wooden corridor/sunroom of singular width and length. There is no record of the date of its construction, but it is well before that of the mansion and, in this case, corresponds to a typical Asturian construction.

Outside, the estate has a large green meadow, surrounded by an iron fence and stone piles, with a palm tree typical of the houses of the indianos and a fountain with a sculpture of a woman carved in stone.

The total area to be restored is 3.270^m2 built and a garden area of 9.511^m2.

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