 Lintel of 1771 |
The house was built in 1771 for Manuel
Galitó, as the old lintel of the house indicates. According to a
notarial registry signed on 26th October 1770, Manuel Galitó released
his father Josep from certain dutys, that he had acquired in accordance with
the matrimonial chapters that they had signed in 1767. In exchange, Manuel
received from his father some landholdings, one those in particular was in the
share of Vilot, that was the site where the house has to be built in origin
"una casa ab parets de tàpia de coranta sinch palms a tot quadros, ab
sos corresponents sòculs y fonament de pedra y argamassa,... ab dos
trevols, finestras y teuladauna casa ab parets de tàpia de coranta sinch
palms a tot quadros, ab sos corresponents sòculs y fonament de pedra y
argamassa,... ab dos trevols, finestras y teulada". Apart from the house, the
father was obliged to give to his son "cent sinquanta lliures moneda
barcelonina... [as well as] los materials necessaris per a la
construcció y fabricació de dita casa, ab la forma dalt dita de
bigas, pedra, rajolas, guix y argamassa a peu d'obra, y [també]
deurà donar las pedras picadas que ja eran destinadas y no empleadas per
Josep Galitó per fer una casa nova" (AHCC, registry office
Tàrrega, Pere Vila Coll, Book 1770-1771, fol. 197 ss.). |
 Lateral facade |
We know from a later document that at
the end the house was built in another site: "the house, farmyard and threshing
floor is situated in Utxafava, in the property called Piló de la Creu.
To the east, it runs alongside the road that ends on the church of Castelnou,
and it shares with Antonio Balagué's property; to the south, the track
from Castellnou to Poal; to the west with that track; and to the north it runs
along the road from the flock to the to the pool" (AHCC, Bellpuig Register,
Ramón Soler Rossell, Capbreu d'Utxafava i Oberchs, 1791-1797, fol. 201
r.).
The house underwent several
refurbishments during the nineteenth century. The kitchen and balcony belong to
that time. At that moment the house was called "Cal Manel". Other alterations
were carried out in the seventies and eighteens of the twentieth-century: a
side door was opened in the frontage, and the first floor was refurnished.
Finally, the house was acquired the 2004
by Irene Barón. She brought the house to its present state, by doing an
elaborated work of restoration, refurbishment and decoration. |
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