The House of Pešinoski family, or House of Pešinovci is a

house A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air c ...

in the

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Vevčani Vevčani () is a village in North Macedonia. It is the only settlement and seat of Vevčani Municipality. Geography The village of Vevčani is found in the southwestern range at the foot of the Jablanica (mountain range), Jablanica mountain ...

Vevčani Municipality Vevčani () is a municipality in western North Macedonia. ''Vevčani'' is also the name of the municipal seat and the only settlement of the municipality. This municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. Geography The municipali ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

. The house belongs to the Pešinoski family and the building is registered as a

Cultural Heritage of North Macedonia Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

History

The house was built in

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the BBC, British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, John Reith becomes the first ...

year before the old

House of Pluškoski family The House of Pluškoski family, or House of Pluškovci is a house in the village of Vevčani, Vevčani Municipality, North Macedonia. The house belongs to the Pluškoski family and the building is registered as a Cultural Heritage of North Macedoni ...

from the XVIII-XIX century, which forms an architectural complex.

Architecture

The building is a tall house with a ground floor and two upper floors. It contains a two-level porch and a double central

veranda A veranda (also spelled verandah in Australian and New Zealand English) is a roofed, open-air hallway or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front an ...

with a distinctly differentiated

winter Winter is the coldest and darkest season of the year in temperate and polar climates. It occurs after autumn and before spring. The tilt of Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun. Dif ...

apartment in the

mezzanine A mezzanine (; or in Italian, a ''mezzanino'') is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped ...

and

summer Summer or summertime is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours are the longest and darkness hours are the shortest, with day ...

apartment on the first floor. The first (ground) floor and the second floor are made of

stone In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its Chemical compound, chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks ...

, leveled with wooden sashes in dry masonry. There are

brick A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a unit primarily composed of clay. But is now also used informally to denote building un ...

decorations above the first floor windows. The third floor to the east and west is of stone, and the rest of the walls are of solid brick. Above the wooden windows there is an arched brick decoration. The mezzanine construction is made with beams of

chestnut The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Description ...

wood. The roof is multi-pitched, it is also made of chestnut beams, with tiles on a canvas of boards. The wooden roof structural beams, which form the eaves, end with decorations. The internal doors, floors, as well as the mezzanine pillar are made of chestnut wood.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:House of Pesinoski family Houses in Vevčani Cultural heritage of North Macedonia Houses completed in 1927

History

Architecture

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