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The house comes from a small town and is one of the finest architectural structures in the open-air museum. Its characteristic feature is a half-gabled roof and entrance with semi-circular lintel and decorative profile braces (elements connecting the post with the beam it supports). The house was built by Jan Wójcik in 1800 (as shown on the date on the beam). It is a two-bayed, wide-fronted building. It consists of a hallway, a large living room, a small room and a storeroom. Its whitewashed walls are constructed from halved logs and hewn beams with a corner structure with protruding ends. A solid beam from larch wood, known as siestrzan, supporting the ceiling beams is a noteworthy element of the large room. Pug flooring has survived in the hallway, as well as tile kitchen stoves with heaters. The household interiors of a small-town family with many children who earned a lived mainly from land cultivation in the inter-war period have been re-created inside. The chest where the dowry and the most valuable garments used to be kept was replaced by a simple chest of drawers on which religious objects were placed, creating a so-called “sacred corner”. The sideboard contains factory-made china and glass vessels which, in Ćmielów, relatively early on replaced enamelled and non-enamelled (siwaki) earthenware pots.