Vul. Virmenska, 15 – former Domazhyrska townhouse

The townhouse is situated in the historic center of the city. It is built of stone and brick, is rectangular in plan and elongated from the south to the north. The volume and spatial structure of the house resembles that of a two-part and three-tract stone house of the Renaissance times. The internal planning is gallery-like and sectional. There is a hall-like room on the ground floor; now it is used as a café bar. A passage through the gate in the main façade leads through the main volume to a chamber yard. From the yard one can enter the staircase and the back wing.

The house has preserved the planning structure typical of the late Renaissance stone house. After a reconstruction in the late eighteenth century the house acquired some characteristic features of the Neoclassicist and Rococo styles; in the nineteenth century it was also given some Biedermeier traits. In general, the architectural appearance of the house is a characteristic pattern of the Virmenska street housing formed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The main façade architecture is rather concise. The façade has an open white stone masonry on the ground floor level; the upper stories are plastered. The façade plane is divided vertically into two unequal parts by a wide lesene. The main compositional accent is placed on an arch entrance portal located to the right. Over the portal, there is a balcony with a delicate railing; the balcony is supported by massive consoles decorated with carving. To the left, on the same level, the second floor windows have French balconies. All window openings have modest framings accentuated with shaped subfenestral cornices. The façade is crowned with a large protruding cornice.