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The Le Selve farmhouse under scaffolding, with the ground-floor arches and the stone and brick walls

Città della Pieve · Listed building · Work in progress

Le Selve
farmhouse

The recovery and conversion into a private residence of a seventeenth-century farmhouse, protected by the Soprintendenza, the Italian heritage authority.

Building
Listed farmhouse
Works
Ongoing
Project
From farmhouse to residence
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The project

A listed farmhouse

We are carrying out the restoration and conservative rehabilitation of the farmhouse of the Confraternity of San Giovanni Decollato and Misericordia di Gesù: the main building, an outbuilding and the landscaping of the grounds, with a new swimming pool.

The building is protected by the Soprintendenza for its historical and architectural interest, linked to its origins, its connection with the Confraternity and the features of traditional rural architecture. Every intervention therefore respects the historical identity of the complex and preserves its original elements.

Location
Le Selve, Città della Pieve (PG)
Protection
Soprintendenza
Project
Recovery and conversion into a private residence, with conservative restoration
Status
Work in progress

The history

Stone and mattacchioni

The complex is made up of six buildings: the farmhouse and five outbuildings. The two-storey house grew out of three parts built at different times: the oldest section dates from the seventeenth century, the latest additions from the mid-twentieth century.

The walls are mixed masonry of stone and large bricks known as mattacchioni, typical of the Città della Pieve area. On the ground floor the old stables have masonry arches supporting the floor above; the floors are timber beams with terracotta tiles and the roof is pitched. An external staircase, sheltered by a clay-tile canopy, leads to the first floor.

Drawing of the south-east and south-west elevations of the farmhouse, before the worksDrawing of the north-west and north-east elevations of the farmhouse, before the works
Existing state: the four elevations of the house before the works, from the project drawings.

The works

From the foundations to the roofs

The work is mainly structural: consolidating the foundations, rebuilding the collapsed walls, rebuilding and strengthening the floors, consolidating the existing walls and redoing the roofs, with traditional techniques and materials. Work is ongoing: we will update this page with new photos.

  • The trench along the wall of the house for the consolidation of the foundations
    Foundations
  • The old stables on the ground floor, with the masonry arches and the works under way
    The stables
  • The brick arches of the stables and the floor dug out during the works
    The stable arches
  • A brick arch held up by timber and steel props
    Propped arches
  • The stable floor dug out between the brick pillars
    Digging under the arches
  • The new floor with the steel mesh over the terracotta tiles
    The new floor
  • The steel reinforcement laid over the terracotta tiles of the floor
    Floor reinforcement
  • A first-floor room with a timber-beam ceiling and cracks in the walls
    First floor
  • A room with a beam-and-tile ceiling, the window and the props
    Beams and tiles
  • The house wrapped in scaffolding with the safety net on the roof
    The scaffolding
  • The stone and brick façade covered by scaffolding
    The façade
  • The side of the stone and brick farmhouse, with the crane
    The side
  • Stones from the collapsed walls, piled in front of an outbuilding
    Collapsed walls
  • A stone and brick outbuilding, with building materials in front and the scaffolding
    The outbuilding
  • The site seen from the olive grove, with the crane and the hills
    The site

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