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DESIGN OF HAVELI

The main  gate or street of the haveli is sealed by massive iron-reinforced gate locally known as Darujo. The hindges of the gates are supported on stone pillars know as Kulli. But this is generally locked. The haveli has only a single main entry and no subsidiary entry has been provided. Only NORA and NAAL or the service courtyard has a separate entry for it.

The forecourt or ‘Mardana’ is accessible to all visitors measuring an area of 540 sq. ft., which has two baithaks, one parindas (water storage rooms), store rooms and two staircases which lead to mazzanine floors and terrace.

At one end of the forecourt, opposite the gate is the entrance to the inner sanctum. Steps lead up to the door, which is set back in a cupped archway. The door frame is made up of finely carved wood.

The door passes into a vaulted, domed porch. Ahead stands a blank wall, protecting the privacy of the womenfolk. This pierced by a little window, serving as the peep hole in an urban door might, there is then a open courtyard called inner courtyard or the 'Zenana'.

The haveli also has a pair of kitchen (Rasoro or Rassoi) and three arched ‘tibari’ which onward gave rooms that were used either for sleeping i.e. bedrooms known as ‘chogra’ or for storage. The kitchens are having corner positions with a parinda close by. Rest all the rooms on the ground floor are approached through the pavement  which themselves acted as dinning and drawing rooms.

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