GERCÜŞ MERKEZ HACI MEHMET AVCI MANSION

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The residence is located in Bağlarbaşı District of Gercüş district of Batman province. Gercüş district is located 60km southeast of Batman city centre.

The building, which has survived to the present day with its top cover and carrier systems largely destroyed, was arranged around the inner courtyard, in "L" plan type, as two floors. The ground floor of the building, which rises on a masonry stone wall, is barrel vaulted, and the upper floors are covered with an earthen flat roof supported by wooden beams. The connection between the floors is provided by stairs with stone steps that start in the courtyard and continue up to the second floor.

The section to the east of the inner courtyard has two floors and there is a space on each floor. The connection to the upper floor is provided by the stairs in the north of the courtyard, which reached today in a collapsed state. Access to the upper floor, whose entrance is located in the western part, is provided by a rectangular door with a stone lintel. In this section, which is used as a living area, there is a single rectangular planned space.

The two-storey section to the west of the inner courtyard consists of two rectangular-planned spaces each placed in an east-west direction. The ground floor spaces are barrel vaulted, and the upper floor spaces are covered with earthen flat roofs. However, the top cover of the spaces on the second floor has survived to the present day in a completely collapsed state. There is natural and human destruction in the structure, in which smooth cut stone, cut stone, rubble stone and cas mortar are used.