The residence no longer exists but was once a typical rural home in southern Sardinia.
It had a double courtyard and a large portal of fine proportions that, due to the gradual raising of the road surface and cursory repairs, now appears to have been seriously affected.
The main residence had a loggia along its whole length, supported by quadrangular stone columns, and was located within a large, irregular-shaped courtyard, completely enclosed by walls and buildings. There were many rustic outhouses around the courtyard, such as a shelter with large mangers for oxen, supported by quadrangular stone columns, a barn, a pigsty and other shelters for farmyard animals and storing work implements.
In the large kitchen with a reed roof and a floor made originally of fomentu, obtained from a mixture of clay, cow dung and straw, there was a fireplace or su foxile at the centre. The fire was regarded with some reverence and was never extinguished because it was seen as a sign of life. It therefore had to be tended, protected and, at the end of the day, its ash-covered embers were retained so they could be revived the next day. The smoke escaped through spaces in the reed ceiling.
Next to the kitchen are rooms known as is apposentus, or ‘added rooms’, such as the bedrooms and the dining room, reserved for special occasions and embellished with tiles in cement grit displaying floral designs.
