Casa de las Campanas

The part of the house that survives appears to be the eastern head of a Mudéjar palace and opens onto an inner courtyard. This principal block rises two storeys and is laid out across two parallel bays. The ground level presents an open portico composed of three arches, while the upper arcade corresponding to that front is closed. To the left of the palace block a later, relatively modern dwelling completes the parcel; to the right an added extension lengthens the original block.

The street façade now shows four arches in a row. Three of these correspond to the original courtyard front; a fourth, springing from pilasters, gives access to a side gallery. The three principal arches are raised above stone columns that carry leaf‑carved capitals, and one of those capitals keeps large projecting corner pieces (orejones), a Nasrid feature. The central arch is round in shape, while the lateral arches are pointed and formed of multiple lobes, each side arch composed of thirteen lobes.

Inside the gallery the ceiling is a recessed‑panel wooden ceiling (alfarje, a wooden ceiling with framed recessed panels). Each bay contains a pattern of two elongated hexagons and three regular octagons, and traces of bright paint survive across the panels. At the lateral limits of the gallery two small transverse arches sit inside rectangular arch frames (alfiz); their inner curves (intrados) and scalloped edges carry a central hanging motif in the Almohad manner, but parts are covered by limewash.

The wall that faces the gallery has three aligned openings matching the three main arches. The side openings are window recesses framed by rectangular arch frames and smooth round‑arched heads, while the central opening is a Granadan‑style doorway richly faced with carved plasterwork on both faces. The entrance arch has scalloped edges and a chamfered intrados, and it is framed by a double rectangular frame that rises to the ceiling and encloses decorated panels; its inner corners rest on lobulated support corbels. Above the lintel three semicircular lattice windows open into the upper space.

Carved plaster decor remains extensive. Inscription bands run along the rectangular frame, net‑like panels (sebka) fill the spandrels, a sixteen‑point star motif appears in the upper band and within the arch intrados, and linked stylized floral patterns of Almohad character appear elsewhere. The outer band of the rectangular frame is filled with dense vegetal relief pierced by marks resembling Kufic script. These plaster surfaces have not been completely uncovered and some areas remain sealed with limewash.

The interior hall preserves its original coffered beam structure similar to the gallery ceiling but with a more complex beam layout. Major beams carry incised star‑lattice ornament and they are joined by a tie‑beam, a horizontal member that shortens the span between supports, which makes the coffered bays more compact and robust. This roof also retains vestiges of painted color. Above the main doorway an equivalent arch survives on the upper level, though its decoration is hidden under limewash. The parts of the building beyond this principal block belong largely to a later phase, probably dating to the nineteenth century, and the projecting wooden eaves that cap the upper body reflect Granadan models introduced during those later alterations.