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The homestead from Radkowice in the Pawłów municipality represents a type of enclosed homestead. The building, once owned by Zygmunt Pocheć, creates a compact quadrangle, and additionally has a detached barn. The enclosed homestead itself consists of a cottage, a coach house, a granary and livestock buildings – all of them under thatched roofs. Individual buildings were constructed in different periods; they were moved and added to already existing structures. The cowsheds and the pigsties built in 1800 are the oldest structures, whilst the cottage and the granary were built much later in 1862, and the barn later still in 1915.

The wide-front cottage with the following layout: hallway – dwelling room – storeroom, is covered by a straw hipped roof with stepped straw on the corners.

The house was built of logs with corners joined on both sides. In the hallway there is a clay-covered stone chimney, whilst the dwelling room has a kitchen stove with plates and a heater. At the side of the yard, the hallway is closed by a door fitted on an archaic revolving mechanism.

Under the storeroom there is a deep stone cellar in which potatoes were stored, a rarely seen feature of similar buildings. Potatoes were poured through a special hole from the side of the backyard. In the garden in front of the cottage is a box-shaped roadside shrine, a copy of the shrine from Radkowice, installed on a post.

The homestead was purchased and dismantled in 1973 and reconstructed in the open-air museum in the years 1984-85. Today, it is furnished with traditional furniture and household appliances.