Schloss Lerchenhof

The house sits on a rectangular plan and rises three storeys above ground, set within a broad surrounding garden that frames the principal elevation. The exterior is rendered in plaster, and the ground storey is given a grooved, rusticated treatment that is separated from the upper levels by a projecting profiled cornice. Ground-floor windows are deeply set into the wall face, while the upper floors rise with a regular rhythm of openings that announce the building’s late-classical ordering.

The main front is organized into seven vertical axes, with a slightly projecting central section defined by Tuscan pilasters, plain classical columns attached to the wall. That central portion is capped by a large triangular pediment, the triangular gable above the facade, and the triangular field inside this pediment contains a painted Steinwender family coat of arms bearing the date 1631. Two flat vertical wall strips support the composition and help lead the eye up to the pediment. The only round-arched openings are the principal ground-level entrance and a single arched upper-window, the latter opening onto a small balcony via a round-arched door-window at first-floor level; other upper windows are finished with pronounced triangular pediments.

Materials and finishing are consistent with mid-nineteenth-century rural classical taste, combining plastered masonry with classical applied orders and decorative cornices. The facade elements remain legible today, and the building is preserved as a protected historic monument while adapted for contemporary use as a guesthouse and hotel.