This charming old building is currently under restoration and promises to be stunning when completed. I couldn't help but take a lot of pictures while there so am putting them in a sub-gallery.

A description of this adventure that was posted on another image from an earlier trip:

[This] turned out to be yet another adventure and wonderful experience! We drove straight to this house, and this time there was no guard at the door as there had been before, so I took some pictures from the street. Suddenly, we saw four women exiting the gate and thought Great, we can go in! Except they said it wasn’t open, that they had just walked in out of curiosity and were told they had to leave, and that it was under renovation and looked like it would be beautiful when done. So we went up to the closed gate and took some pictures, and I managed to climb over a low stone wall (very humorous in an abaya, I’m sure ;-)) and got some shots of the verandah. We left to look at some other things on this street, and when we finally walked back to our car, noticed that the front gate was open. I was hoping to at least get a glimpse of the interior and was doing just that when the foreman drove up and invited us inside. Wow, I couldn't believe it! The workmen stopped what they were doing so I could take some photographs without dust (although there was wet cement around where I was walking, I’m afraid to look at the hem of my abaya). Then, amazingly enough, the owner appeared and invited us for coffee and subsequently lunch (which we didn’t stay for as it was almost dinner time for us). We chatted for a while and found out the foreman was Yemeni and one of his workmen was Syrian, having fled the civil war there with scars to show from it. It was a delightful time spent there, and the owner promised to send me a small, old door because he could see how taken I was with the work on the windows and doors on his property. I was thrilled!