Cultural Heritage Site

Bien de Interés Cultural


  • Name: Corral del Conde
  • Other names: Old Count's Corral
  • Code: 01410910050
  • Characterization: Architectural


  • Province: Seville
  • Municipality: Seville
  • Autonomous Community: Andalusia


  • Category: 51 Monument
  • Status: Registered
  • Status: BIC – Asset of Cultural Interest
  • BOE: 18/01/1980
  • Nuance: Declared Autonomous Community. Formerly L/85

Technical description


It is a large corral, possibly the most interesting in the city, and is located on Santiago Street.


The building is arranged around an L-shaped courtyard with a detached section built in the center of its shorter arm. It has a single bay along both the facades and party walls and three stories, which are reduced to two stories in the detached section.


The interior elevations facing the courtyard are all formed by lintelled galleries, whose height decreases as they ascend, supported by wooden posts with corbels. The floors of this gallery are also made of wood, with brick infill.


The rooms open onto the courtyard and are accessed via the galleries, by means of staircases located in each bay. After the renovation, the original living units were enlarged, in most cases by combining two of them to form a new one, now equipped with a kitchen and bathrooms that were formerly communal. New staircases were also introduced to reduce interior travel distances.


The roofs are single-pitched in the perimeter bays and double-pitched in the detached building, covered with ceramic tiles.

The courtyard features a well, which once brought together the washing areas around it, and although it is paved today, it was probably originally earthen.


The corral secures and isolates the collective life inside through a single entrance door on an urban scale.


Fountain:


  • Regional Government of Andalusia. Ministry of Culture.
  • Francisco Collantes de Teran y Delorme. Sevillian civil architecture. Unknown, 1976. 84-505-1306-5.
  • José Hernández Díaz. Reports and proposals on Andalusian monuments. 1987, pp.171-275.