Wähä-Rääpi

History

In 1756 Vähä-Rääpi belonged to Walstenius and in 1800 to Johan Sandsröm.

Fire insurance

Fire insurance was taken out in 1859 by the miller M. Limnell. On a plot of land along Isopoikkatu, on the riverbank, there was a gabled building consisting of two buildings, on the corner of the plot facing Isopoikkatu and the riverbank. There were also two outbuildings on the eastern side of the plot. The street-side building was old, in good condition, unplanked and painted red. The roof was tiled. There were eight windows and they were six-paned. There were five rooms: an entrance hall, two halls, a pantry, a kitchen and a doorway. The external staircases were covered. The outer door was a double door of simple plank. The outer doors were half-transomed mirrored doors. Three of the rooms had paper wallpaper. There were three tiled stoves, square and with brown glazing. There was also a kitchen oven. There were three chimneys.

The wing along the river was also old, in fair condition, unplanked, but painted with red paint. The building had a baking room and a chamber with a tiled stove. There was one six-paned window and three mullioned windows. The outer door was a double board door. One intermediate door was semi-transomed. The building had two chimneys.

The outbuilding at the southern end of the site was a grey log sauna and storage building. It had one small window and a double board door. The oven in the sauna was vaulted. The outbuilding on the river side was a log barn, unboarded but painted red. The building also had a chalk and barn. A gate was also insured, which was double boarded and oil painted.

In 1884, the insurance of the house was renewed. The owner at that time was the blacksmith Johan Gröndahl. The house had been extended so that the wings formed one building. There is a stone cellar under the building. There were eight rooms: two halls, three chambers, a kitchen, a baker’s room, a hall and two boarded porches. There were five tiled stoves. In addition, there was a kitchen stove and a baking oven, both of which had a masonry iron stove. The rooms in the house had been renovated: new tiled stoves, kitchen and baking ovens, floors, ceilings, windows and wallpaper.

The exterior building was a single row of buildings running the length of the east side. It was part log, part plank, part old and later extended. The courtyard side was boarded up and painted in red brick. The roof was boarded. The building contained a barn, two paddocks, a privy, a shed, a lean-to and a washroom with a washhouse oven. There was also mention of a driveway with a smaller access gate. The gate is now on the south side of the main building, after a passageway had been converted into a room.

Modification drafts

From 1890 is John Fredr. Lindegren. It shows the façades with a neo-renaissance look, tripartite panelling and four-paned windows framed by strong mouldings. However, the plan did not materialise.

The modification drawing by M. Isakson dates from 1906. The two porches of the building were then connected by a section of multi-screened glass. A handsome neo-renaissance gateway was also added to the building. The building was panelled with a round-arched cornice ending in a circular scribble-edge. The windows were six-paned and had classical frames. The house had two apartments. One had three rooms, a hallway and a kitchen, and the other two rooms and a room with a baking oven. The outbuilding on the eastern boundary of the plot had sleeping quarters, a cattle shed, a latrine and a sauna.

In 1940, the building was modified. The layout of the room remained the same, but the baking oven in the barn was dismantled and replaced by a fireplace. The room became a living room. The room next to it was called the parlour and the corner room the dining room. The other room on the roof side was converted into a kitchen. In the second apartment, when the walls were replaced, the wall was slightly repositioned to create more space in the kitchen and hallway. The rooms were called the living room and the bedroom.

In 1977 the buildings were renovated. One apartment was added to the residential building, plus a sauna. The sauna in the outbuilding was converted into a craft room. A garage was also added to the outbuilding, accessed from the end of the building.

Current situation

Residential building
Long-cornered residential building, with a pantile lining, neo-renaissance ornamentation, hipped roof.

Exterior building
Boarded exterior building line

Gate
Old-style neo-renaissance gate.