The House of the Reclining Lady?

As I mentioned in earlier posts, it used to be that there were no house numbers on buildings, but rather they were identifiable by an image or sculpture found on the building (e.g. the House of the White Boot - see post of 21 April 2010, the House of the Stone Ram - see post of 8 April 2010). Based on that premise, could we then call this the House of the Reclining Lady? Sometimes the name is actually written on the house along side the image, but in this case, I didn't find any such wording.

At the Stone Ram

The name of this building comes from the relief sculpture at the top right of the above picture. Actually, the ram has just one horn so apparently the building has also been called At the Unicorn since not too many rams have just one horn!!

Nevertheless, the rest of the door is what I'm most interested in...especially the carved pillars and the stonework at the top of them. The archway is heavy and strong and probably once framed a magnificent wooden door, but sadly, the present door might be very boring if it weren't for the wrought-iron work, but luckily the iron work is the saving grace. The building is early 16th century, so I am guessing that the door frame is from the same period though it is possible that various renovations occurred over the centuries resulting in changes to the original design of the pillars - that is just my guess though.

The stonework at the tops of the pillars is fabulous!