Ahmad Pasha al-Daramalli

Description (The direction towards Mecca (Qibla) is described as eastern and other directions are named accordingly)

A sizeable rectangular enclosure (measuring ca 20 x 38 metres), with a front garden courtyard facing the street to the north and a back courtyard which is partly taken by an earlier 14th-century mausoleum in its south-eastern corner. Roughly a half of the lot is built up with single-storey buildings. The front gar-den is separated from the street by a breast-high wall built of ashlar stone and divided into sections by square stone pillars crowned with simple cornices and bulbous toppings, with the upper section filled with a simple decorative wrought iron fence. The gate is placed asymmetrically in the left (eastern) part of the wall. It consists of a two-leaved door of simple decorative wrought iron grille and sheet-metal or-naments in the lower part placed between two stone pillars. In the middle of the front wall is a wall fountain in the form of a rectangular block of stonemasonry topped with a muqarnas cornice and fleur-de-les crenellations. In its front wall is a recess flanked by engaged colonnettes and topped with a round arch framed in simple knotted mouldings. The northern façade of the building on the southern side of the courtyard is plain, undecorated, built of rubble stone and plastered except around the doors framed with ashlar masonry. In the left part is a door leading to the main building, flanked symmetrically by two windows on each side, and to the right, a door of the unroofed passage leading to the back yard, and to the right of it a window of a room in the tract of rooms by the western side of the lot. These rooms are currently used as a furniture-painting workshop.