Renovation in Pollensa
The town houses here are organised around two things: a stair and a courtyard. Almost every renovation of one comes down to what happens to those two, because everything else in the plan is arranged around them.
The stair and the courtyard run the house
A house of this type is tall and narrow, so it works vertically. The stair is not circulation added to a plan; it is the spine the plan hangs from, and it usually sits where it does because the structure and the light both needed it there. Moving it is possible and it is the largest single decision available in one of these houses.
The courtyard does the other half. It brings light and air into the middle of a deep plan, it gives the ground floor somewhere to open onto, and in the older houses it was the working heart of the building rather than a decorative one. Rooms facing it behave completely differently from rooms facing the street.
Which means the useful early question is not what the finishes should be. It is whether the stair stays, whether the courtyard is being opened up or built into, and what those two answers do to the floors above. Get that settled and the rest of the project follows easily; leave it open and everything else has to be priced twice.
The decisions that shape one of these houses
- Whether the stair stays where it is, or moves
- Whether the courtyard is opened up, glazed over or built into
- How the ground floor connects to the outside space behind
- Rooms facing the street against rooms facing the courtyard
- The top floor, often the least altered and the most usable
- A roof terrace, which many of these houses can gain
- Timber floors between storeys, checked where they bear
- Thick stone walls that carry the whole structure vertically
- Services running up through a building with no ducts
- Light reaching the middle of a deep and narrow plan
Most asked for in the town
Nearby areas
Alcúdia
Sóller and Port de Sóller
How your request reaches a company
Mallorca Renovation is a comparison service. A request for a town house renovation goes to the renovation and building companies on our list; they quote the work and carry it out, and any agreement is between you and the company you pick.
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Describe the job
Tell us the property, roughly what you want and where it is. Photographs and a rough plan help, though neither is required.
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We match it
The request goes to companies that work in your area and take on this kind of job at this size.
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They quote you
Each company contacts you directly with its own price, timing and approach. We do not set any of it.
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You compare and choose
Put the quotes side by side and take the one you want, or none of them. Using the site costs you nothing.
Can the staircase be moved?
Usually it can, and it is the biggest structural decision in the house because every floor it passes through has to be opened and re-supported. It is also the change that transforms the plan most, so it is worth pricing properly rather than dismissing early.
Should the courtyard be glazed over?
It depends what you want from it. Roofing a courtyard gains an interior room and loses the outdoor space and much of the ventilation that made the plan work. Both are valid and it is worth seeing the consequence drawn before deciding.
Is the top floor worth converting?
Frequently, and it is often the least altered part of the house. What decides it is the roof structure and the head height, both of which are easy to establish early and expensive to discover late.
Get quotes for a town house in Pollensa
Describe the house, the stair and the courtyard, and let several companies price the same scope.