Uttergården

Plots 171 and 172 have been merged at least since 1864. The insurance policy dated 7 September 1864 mentions the original main building from 1838, which burned down in the 1880s and was replaced by the current main building from 1897. Of interest is that the original main building must have been a High Empire house painted with white oil paint and with a tiled roof, the proportions of the house were also of the Empire type, with external dimensions of 19.2 x 10.8 metres and a height of 9.5 metres and comprising 7 rooms and a kitchen. In 1864, all the outbuildings were also yellow, painted with yellow cooking paint, as was the fence, while the gate was painted with white oil paint.

The current main building was built by the merchant and sea captain Johan Wilhelm Olin, who insured the farm in 1898 (1908) and at that time there was a photography studio in the centre of plot 171. According to Lasse Backlund, the house was moved from Östra Långgatan, when the new church was to be built, 40 years after it survived the great fire of 1859 that ravaged the neighbourhood around the church. Read more about Salins gård, number 34A, in De gamla gårdarna, Ett försvunnet kvarter i stadens centrum, Nystén Lilly.

In the following insurance policy dated 15 January 1920, when the farm was owned by the merchant K.L. Saari, the plot had undergone a number of changes which resulted in the farm in its present form.

According to the latter insurance policy, the farm was built as follows:

1. The main building on Strandgatan, built in 1897, boarded and painted with oil colour and with a tin roof. Size 22.50 x 10.50, with an average height of 9.50 metres. The house includes 11 rooms with a total of 8 tiled stoves and two kitchen stoves as well as two verandas measuring 3×3 metres and 3.5 metres in height.
2. At an angle to the main building on the north side of the plot, a residential building built in 1838 and 1939 and rebuilt in 1919, boarded but still unpainted, measuring 10 x 5.34 metres and 5.64 metres high. In its original form, the house included a baker’s hut and a fruit room with a baking oven and a tiled stove, but after the reconstruction it became 4 rooms with a total of two tiled stoves and a kitchen stove and a veranda 3 x 2.8, with a height of 3 metres.
3. Economy building built in 1838 and 1839, boarded and red painted with asphalt felt roof. Measuring 35 x 5.34 metres and with a height of 5.64 metres, it comprises two two-storey warehouses, two firewood sheds, stables, cattle shed, feed barn, outhouse and dunghill.
4. At the far eastern end of the site a residential building built in 1919 with a beaded roof, still unpainted. Measuring 8.6 x 6.6 metres with a height of 6.8 metres and comprising 2 living rooms with 1 kitchen stove with baking oven and walled-in pot and a sheet metal stove.

There were also two buildings in the centre of the plot which are now gone – an 1892 tool shed (the former photographer’s studio) made of timber and boards and an earth cellar with a turf roof.
The entrance gate and plank (18 metres long and 2 metres high) were painted with oil paint.