A Tharavad home in rural Palakkad New

Tharavad the ancestral home of the Kandath family is set in the lush rice paddies of rural Kerala in South India. The house is a two hundred year a“ old gem of domestic architecture constructed primarily of mud and teak.The house was built in 1794 by Bhagwaldasa a™s Great Great Grandfather Mr. Kuppavelan, Situated in Thenkurussi Village in Palakkad, the nearest town, an equidistant two-hour drive from Cochin airport to the West or Coimbatore to the East. He Most striking feature of the house is the frontal raised area (Purathaluma) with grand bulbous pillars fashioned in teak at each corner rising to glorious carvings of elephants, snakes, fish and dragons. The floor is covered in natural dyed tiles of ochre, terracotta and blue.