The House of the Seven Windows (the main house of the town manor) looks two centuries older than it really is! This mansion, designed by the architect Svetlana Zyryanova in 2008-2014, embodies the characteristic features of large Plios manor houses of the mid-19th century.
A one-storey facade of three windows with a porch and a veranda faces Yurievskaya street, and a two-storey front facade with seven high arched windows and a balcony in the upper floor faces the Volga river.
The 2.6 metres high windows and the balcony door were transported to Plios from St. Petersburg, from the Palace Embankment. Once these windows and the door decorated the reserve palace of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and looked at the Neva river and Peter and Paul Fortress, and now they look at the Volga.
The carved platbands for the mezzanine windows are copied from house number 14 on Yurievskaya Street. Between the cobblestone retaining wall and the street façade there is the semblance of a fortress moat, a bridge over it and a traditional Plios porch on semicircular wooden brackets, effectively protecting the entrance door from rain and snow. This is the entrance to the upper floor. From the ground floor there is access to an open boarded terrace and garden down to the riverfront. The staircase from the embankment was built by the project of landscape architect Anatoly Sorokin.
The reconstruction of the house of traditional Russian architecture was realised within the framework of the Hidden Russia project.
