Only the front portion of the house, consisting of rooms B, C, D, S, and U, date to the colonial period, while all of the rear rooms were added in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  The two large wooden columns in the patio E are also colonial in date.
This was an elite colonial house, located  very close to the central plaza of Cuenca.  The house abuts the street with no intervening front portico.  A central hallway or zaguan (C) separates the interior of the property from the world of the street.  The owners could monitor activities in the street below from their private balconies (T and V).