Restoration of unique house gets underway

Initial restoration works have commenced on Roseville, a unique house in Attard that showcases one of the finest and earliest examples of Art Nouveau in Malta, MEPA said today.

The works are being carried as a result of collaboration between MEPA and a developer to ensure that this distinctive architectural building is safeguarded, restored and re-used in a sustainable manner.

In January 2000, MEPA had issued an Emergency Conservation Order to protect the building owing to its architecture, especially its polychromed facade, the wrought iron railings and several other external and internal details.

A plan for restoration was submitted together with an application that included the construction of an old people’s home adjacent and on the rear of the property. Roseville will house the administrative quarters of the Home.

Roseville was built in the early 20th century as a summer residence. It was built in two phases; the ground floor in 1912 by architect Alessandro Manara and the first floor was added in 1921 by architect Emanuele Borg in the same architectural grammar of the ground floor.