Linnala

History

In 1756 the owner of the plot was listed as Lindqvist and the name Lindula. In 1800 the name was Linnala and the owner was the bourgeois Johan Packalin. He had arable land of two barrels of seed and also a half share in a reef and barn, a food shed and a shore shed.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance was taken out in 1863 by Johanna P. Enckel, the daughter of a merchant. There were two buildings on the property, a residential building along the street and an outbuilding in the middle of the property with a wing on the eastern boundary. Behind the building was a small cattle yard.

The main building was a residential building, old, boarded up and painted with red watercolour. It had a pitched roof. It had four rooms, a hall and a dining room, three tiled stoves and a kitchen stove. The outbuilding was also partly old, but partly of later date. The building was unplanked but painted in red brick. The roof was tiled. The building had a baking room with a fireplace with a stove, a bread oven and a sauna oven. It also had an entrance hall, an above-ground vaulted stone cellar, a shed, a stable and a barn, and a boarded latrine. The gate and fence were also insured.

In 1880 the owner was the sailor Viktor Lindberg. The previous summer the whole building had been raised. The dining room and kitchen had been converted into living rooms and a new kitchen and two covered staircases had been added. The entire interior, floors, roof, ceiling and stoves had been replaced. The entire building was panelled and painted. The roof was still made of boards. The building in the middle of the plot was now listed as a residential building. It was said to have been partly built in the past, partly built the previous summer. The above-ground cellar and chalk had been converted into living rooms, still lacking fireplaces. The whole building was also to be panelled. The building had a baker’s pantry, two chambers and a covered board staircase. The oven in the bakehouse still contained a stove, a bread oven and a sauna oven. Under the building was a vaulted underground cellar. The outbuilding had also been repaired during the previous summer. The layout plan showed a covered pass between the outbuilding and the outbuilding to the cattle yard. The house shared a well with a neighbour.

In 1896, the insurance company was informed that a bread oven and stove had been bricked up to replace a tiled stove in one room of the street-side building, and that the other room had been decorated as a furniture shop. A residential building in the courtyard, which had contained a bake house and two chambers, had been converted into a carpenter’s workshop by removing all partitions and fireplaces. The roof and walls were plastered with clay and lime plaster. A single tiled stove had been built in front of which a hewn stone had been placed to protect the fire from falling biscuits. Frans Henriksson, a carpenter, was the author of the report.

Modification drafts

In 1887, there was an alteration drawing for a residential building along the street. In the centre of the building had been a door to a commercial building. Now the door was to be moved to a room at the east end of the building in place of a window. The former door was replaced by a window. The building was drawn as a vertical block for the residential floor. The cladding was finished at the scribbling stage. The windows were six-paned with classical framing. The attic section was plain boarded and the attic windows were narrow, double-hung. The vertical pilasters of the building had carvings and button motifs. The shop door was a double door with glass panes at the top and a mirrored lower part. The shop’s high stairs were wooden and parallel to the street, leading from two sides. The gate was enclosed and had a separate access door next to it. The gate leaves were mirrored.

A drawing from 1895 shows the buildings on the plot at that time. There was a residential building along the street, which also had two store rooms, meaning that the two large rooms in the duplex were used as store rooms. In between was a hallway and a pantry. On the courtyard side there was a kitchen attached to the porch. On the roof side there was a further pantry and a baker’s pantry with its own entrance and porch. The building was vertically planked and the planking ended in a scribbled edge. The attic floor was horizontal boarded. The windows were four-paned, with a small single-paned window above them. The window panelling was in the neo-renaissance style, as were the double doors of the shops, which were made to replace the windows. The window above the door of one shop bore the name of the owner of the house, the carpenter F. A. Henrikson. The stairs were of stone, with three steps. The dwelling in the centre of the plot was previously divided into three rooms, two chambers and a room with a fireplace containing both a baking oven and a sauna stove. It was now planned to demolish both the partitions and the old fireplaces and replace them with a single heating oven. The building was apparently used by a carpenter’s workshop. The exterior of the building was vertically boarded and the windows were six-paned. The attic floor had single-pane windows. The roof was pantiled. The entrance to the building had a gabled porch. In 1898, there was an alteration drawing, in which the carpenter’s workshop was to be divided into two parts by a board wall and the new small room was also to be equipped with a tiled stove. The large workshop room had proved too large to be heated by a single stove. In 1908, it was decided to convert the workshop building into a dwelling, closing the main door and dividing the space into two chambers, a kitchen and a hallway.

From 1908, there is an alteration drawing in which the shop door at the eastern end of the street-side building was to be changed back into a window for the living room. At the same time, fireplace modifications were made, the baking oven was demolished, and the dwelling became a small kitchen when part of the dwelling space was attached to the chamber.

In 1911, there was an alteration drawing to open the shop entrance and display window in the middle of the façade. The windows were now drawn as quadruple windows and the framing was in the neo-renaissance style, as in the 1895 drawing. The planking of the walls was still the same as in the 1887 drawing, except for the unrealised chamfering and button decoration of the pilasters. In addition, a kitchen was added to the courtyard side porch as part of the alteration, which resulted in a slight extension of the porch. In 1912, two shop doors and a display window were opened on the roof side.

In 1939, there was an alteration drawing showing improvements to the building. The kitchen stove on the courtyard side was moved inside the room to a space cut off from the front room. The front hall on the street side was converted into a kitchen, and additional space was taken from the hallway for this kitchen as well. An entrance to the shop room in the centre of the building was also made from the courtyard. The old vertical planking was proposed to be replaced by horizontal planking, combined with simple window frame planking. The gate was proposed as a low-height, closed at the bottom and consisting of a grille at the top. The gate had no upper timber.

In 1949, they wanted to open a shop door and a shop window at the east end of the building. A barber shop was opened. Originally, the shop door and shop window were in the middle of the building.

In 1957, changes were made to the exterior of the building. Parts of both ends were demolished, leaving wood sheds and a new garage.

In 1986, the outbuilding was replaced by a new one. A sauna and a garage were added, as well as storage space. In 1994, the facades of the building were to be restored in a neo-renaissance style. The entrances to the shops were left in place.

Current situation

Street-side building
Residential building with elongated corners, partly as a commercial building, horizontal boarding from 1939, saddle roof, shop windows

Courtyard building
Residential building with elongated corner, late horizontal timbering

Outbuilding
New building from the 1980s.