GERCÜŞ MERKEZ MEHMET ALİ GÜNER HOUSE

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The residence is located in Batman province, Beşiri district, central Pınarbaşı district. Gercüş district is located 60km southeast of Batman city centre.

The building, which was seated in a rectangular plan on a sloping and rocky ground, was arranged as two floors. There are shops on the ground floor of the building, where the residential and commercial functions are seen together, and there are spaces used as living spaces on the upper floor.

On the ground floor of the building, there are three shops opening to the main street. The shops with round-arched and rectangular entrances on the northern façade are covered with cross vaults.

Access to the second floor, which is used as a living area, is provided by the main entrance door located in the northern section. Opening to the street, on the same plane with the façade, the round-arched wooden winged door is positioned in the middle of the façade. The second floor is accessed through a narrow barrel-vaulted corridor with an inclination towards the south, where the main entrance door opens. On the second floor, there are two rectangular-planned rooms in the east and west sections of the hall, which connects the spaces with each other, the balcony covering the entire façade in the northern section, and the wet volume (kitchen, bathroom, toilet) units on the south section that seem to have been added to the building later.

The rooms on the east and west of the hall are rectangular in plan, with wooden beams and flat roofs. The windows on the facade where the main entrance door is located; It is rectangular in shape and there are deaf arches above the windows. There is a drop motif placed in the middle of the double windows and a building inscription written in Arabic alphabet. Although the eaves have a protruding feature, zigzag motif stone decorated reliefs are carved on the block stones lined up side by side on the frieze at the bottom of the eaves.

It has been observed that in the later periods, additions and repairs were made with non-original materials in the building, where cut stone, rubble stone and cas mortar were used as construction materials.