Eighteen rooms in a Udaipur haveli standing since 1676

The house carries the date 1676 on its sign, and it has stood on Gangaur Ghat Marg ever since. The rooms sit around an open courtyard. The stairs are stone. The windows are jharokhas: shallow boxes that push out from the wall under a cusped arch, deep enough to sit in, looking down into the lane.

Bagore Ki Haveli is next door. The ghat is at the end of the road and Lake Pichola a minute past it. Most of what you came to Udaipur for is within a ten-minute walk, and the lanes are too narrow to drive anyway.

There are eighteen rooms on three floors, and no two floors are laid out the same way. A handicraft shop takes up part of the ground floor. The stairs carry on up to the terrace, which looks across the rooftops to the water. There is more on the courtyard and the architecture, and the three room categories are described in full.