Rančić Family House, Grocka
building in Serbia
The Rančić Family House (Serbian: Ранчићева кућа) is located in Grocka, at 9 Majevička Street, in the immediate vicinity of the Čaršija (historical main street), on an elevated, spacious plot, set free in relation with the street regulation. The house was built at the beginning of the 19th century as a two-part Kosovo-style ground-floor house. The building is a half-timbered construction filled built with wattle and daub, and covered with four-sided ceramides (a type of roof tile) roof with large roof drains – eaves. Along the entire front facade, there was a very deep architraved porch leveled with the terrain. There was a special door leading from the porch into the "house," that is, the room, while the internal communication between the "house" and the room was left out. The rooms in the house were separated, not mutually connected, so later on, the house was rebuilt. It was elevated then so that it got a basement and a veranda, which gave it the appearance of the townhouse. The present organization of the rooms was done around the heart room, as the central room was directly connected to the porch.
The architecture
In the middle of the 19th century, changes were made in the design construction for, which dominated in the village in the 1830s and as a result so-called Grocka town houses appeared, so Rančić family house also belonged to this group of houses. The basis is widened and the house got larger dimensions and new organization of space.
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