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The Portalondo House or Tower of the Gentiles is a building of rectangular floor plan and a three-slope roof. It forms a party wall on its right side and its rear façade is occupied by a town house, whereas the other two facades are free. It finishes the medieval subdivision of a block in Kardaberaz street in its meeting with Perkaiztegi street.
It is a medieval tower-house, pollarded in the second half of the 15th century, which possibly formed part of the defensive wall of the town and was sited next to one of the gates thereof.
Its outside is made with ashlar stone. It has four geminate windows of a pointed arch with a mullion on the first floor.
Meanwhile, in its facade giving on to Perkaiztegi street, there stands out a triangular based addition made up of three floors.
On the ground floor it presents major construction and compositional changes due to the anarchic opening of holes in business premises. The holes in the top floor are also of a rear opening.
Currently, there is a business premise on the ground floor and residential properties on the other two floors.
Tower-House
