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| Identification / पहचान | |
| Reference Number / संदर्भ संख्या | JK06000831 |
| Built Heritage/Site निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल |
Built Heritage |
| Name of the Monument / Built Heritage / Site स्मारक / निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल का नाम |
Abdul Ali Shah s House |
| State / राज्य | Jammu and Kashmir |
| District / जिला | Anantnag |
| Manual District | |
| Sub District / उप-जिला | |
| Manual Sub District | Anantnag |
| Village / गाँव | |
| Manual Village | |
| Cultural Affiliation / सांस्कृतिक सम्बंधन | Modern - आधुनिक काल |
| Date/Period तारीख/युग |
C. 19th - 20th Cent. CE |
| Sub Period | |
| Geo-Location / भू-अवस्थिति | Mohalla Shah Saheb, Anantnag |
| Latitude / अक्षांश | |
| Longitude / देशान्तर | |
| Approach to the Monument / पहुंचने का मार्ग | |
| Approach /पहुंचने का मार्ग | N.A |
| Air Port / विमानपत्तन | Srinagar |
| Railway Station / रेलवे स्टेशन | Wanpoh, Anantnag |
| Bus Station / बस स्टैंड | Anantnag |
| Topographical Features / स्थलाकृतिक विशेषताएं | |
| Topographical Feature / स्थलाकृतिक विशेषताएं | Hill - पहाड़ी |
| Topographical Description / स्थलाकृतिक विवरण | The building is located on the foothills of an adjoining karewa tableland . |
| History / इतिहास | |
| Brief History / संक्षिप्त इतिहास | The building which happens to be the tallest vernacular residence in Kashmir was constructed by a Kashmiri Pandit family. Members of the family migrated from the area in the 1990 s. No account of the builder or the exact date of construction of the building could be obtained. |
| Local / Traditional description associated with Built Heritage / Site निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल से सम्बंधित स्थानीय/ परम्परागत विवरण |
The building is part of a small residential cluster that was inhabited mostly by members of Kashmiri Pandit community. |
| Architectural Style / स्थापत्य शैली | N.A - उपलब्ध नहीं |
| Building/ Structure/Site
इमारत / संरचना / स्थल |
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| Description of Building/ Structure/Site
इमारत/संरचना/स्थल का विवरण |
With its seven floors, the house boasts of being the tallest of all the extant traditional houses in Kashmir. The building has a rectangular layout with a centrally located staircase lobby which, led by a finely decorative doorway. Each floor has four rooms with two rooms on each side of the lobby. The top or the sixth floor has two halls. The ground floor mostly has storage rooms. The building is detached from other properties in the area which make all its four sides clearly visible from the road. The two longer faces of the building are almost similar in appearance with a very noticeable, three storey wooden dub starting from the centre of the third floor as a octagonal box dub, widening as it continues in the form of rectangular dub to the fourth floor and becoming narrow and octagonal again on the fifth floor. Apart from this, on the longer faces, there are also two octagonal dubs on each end second floor. The top or the sixth floor attains the shape of a penthouse with the two halls lifting up as two separate units above the fifth floor. |
| Structure material and other material संरचनागत सामग्री और अन्य घटक |
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| Building/Structure material and other material used प्रयोग में लाई गई इमारती / संरचनागत सामग्री और अन्य घटक |
The main materials used in the construction of the building are stone, brick and timber. While the ground floor and first floor is constructed in ashlars, all the upper floors are in burnt brick masonry. The structural system of the building consists of load bearing masonry walls laid in mud mortar. Each fa ade has a series of segmental arched windows set within slightly decorative and projecting surrounds. All windows start at floor level comprising carved wooden sills and glazed and paneled window panels. The rooms are replete with khatamband ceilings and fine decorative incised mud plaster. Each floor level is emphasized by a decorative brick frieze band running the entire length. Internally the floors are covered with sathrun mud flooring in most of the rooms. The building is covered with a traditional pitched roof comprising CGI sheets with ornamental finials at each roof edge. Other decorative elements include roof pendants and carved eaves boards |
| Usage(s) & Sub Type | |
| Usage(s) / प्रयोग | Living Monument - प्रयोग |
| Sub-Usage(s)/ उप-प्रयोग | Residential |
| Ownership / स्वामित्व | Private - निजी |
| Protection status / संरक्षण अवस्था | Unprotected- असंरक्षित |
| Plan/Elevation विन्यास/उध्र्व विन्यास | |
| Published Reference / प्रकाशित संदर्भ | |
| Author / लेखक | Bates, Charles Ellison |
| Name / नाम | Gazetteer of Kashmir, , Lawrence, Sir Walter Valley of Kashmir |
| Year / वर्ष | |
| Published/Unpublished प्रकाशित / अप्रकाशित |
Published |
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