This farmhouse located in Triq iż-Żurrieq in Safi is a typical rural farmhouse although some alterations have been carried out to it in order to modernise it as well as to improve access from one room to another.

Some parts, although fairly dilapidated, have however been spared insensitive alterations. Most of the ground floor façade has been quite severely hacked and a square-headed garage door introduced clashing with the architectural style of the property.

Although the exact date of construction is not known, the property is somewhat significant since it is one of the few vernacular properties that have survived almost in their entirety in the area.

The building is a typical vernacular structure in that it is rather introvert with relatively small apertures on the façade (except for insensitive alterations). The remissa doorway is arched by relatively large stones in the mediaeval style. A tower-like projection at roof level serves as the stair (garigor) hood. An open, running balcony overlooks one side of the internal yard. A small number of holes indicate that the space within some of the walls serve as a pigeon loft. The dilapidated rooms accessed from the yard are roofed in the traditional method by means of kileb and xorok tal-qasba. The stair hood at the highest roof level is not very common due to its round, squat shape.

Mepa scheduled the farmhouse as a Grade 2 national monument as per Government notice 1225 dated December 10, 2010.

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