page_title: 33, Cathedral Street
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: 33, Cathedral Street / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Carmel House
context_page_description: Carmen is a late 19th-century townhouse at 33, Cathedral Street, Sliema, Malta. The residence was purposely built, and used, by Catholic clergy as a residence and for general community services. It was built and completed in 1870 by the Mdina Cathedral. It was used for its original purpose for less than two decades, after which went through adaptive reuse.
  Today the townhouse lies in the Urban Conservation Area. It is considered a historic house, however has been the subject for demolition due to its site being of high economic interest for high rise development. It is currently in good condition but left neglected. An application to develop the site into flat has been refused in March 2019.
context_section_description: At some point the house was named Carmen. The building is two stories high, with a groundfloor and a first floor. It has a vernacular baroque façade, generally described simply as being vernacular, with a balanced facade and front terrace. The façade is characterized by a main door, with one window on each side on the groundfloor.
  The part of the façade on the upper floor has a traditional closed timber balcony, supported by detailed decorative corbels the middle of which having a sculpted head of a lion. Similar to the groundfloor, the upper floor has a window on each side however are complemented by a corbel above each.
  The interior of the house is rich in architecture and has been described by the Planning Authority as “consist[ing] of a symmetrical double fronted town-house having a restrained neo-classical exterior with a more lavish internal layout accentuated by fine architectural detailing concentrated in the main hall and main staircase, together with its centralised axis leading from the front door to the ‘nympheum’ at the back of the garden. The town house under consideration is the last in this row of houses which abut it on the left, whilst on the right it is abutted by a single fronted Art Nouveau town house, attributed to Architect Giovanni Psaila who worked prolifically in the Sliema area during the first part of the 20th century and whose most noteworthy work is Balluta Buildings.”
  The townhouse has a large back garden, with trees that were planted years ago which are sparse over its grounds. An elaborate niche is found at the very end of the garden.
  Since December 2017, the house has been designated as a Grade II building.
caption: Details on façade
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