No. 11 Neiwubu Street Courtyard House

No. 11 Neiwubu Street Courtyard House

The No. 11 Neiwubu Street Courtyard House is a protected cultural heritage site of Beijing.

The No. 11 Neiwubu Street Courtyard House is located at No. 11 Neiwubu Street in Dongcheng District. It is a large, north-facing residential compound. There are two upturned-roof gates along the street. Currently, the western gate is sealed off, and access is only possible through the eastern gate. Inside the main gate, the area is divided into four courtyard groups. The central part consists of two separate, side-by-side main courtyards, each with its own ornamental gate (垂花门), leading to multi-tiered siheyuan houses with individual halls inside; the eastern courtyard is spacious with few houses and only two courtyards, lacking side rooms, likely originally used as quiet chambers or study rooms; the western courtyard also has few houses, and both its structure and architectural style are relatively simple, distinctly different from the front courtyards, clearly not part of the same original building complex. The entire compound concludes with a vast rear garden, featuring landscaped hills, a flower hall, pavilions, and some stone carvings collected from the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) used as decorative elements.

Further Reading:

· Third Batch of Municipal-Level Protected Cultural Heritage Sites in Beijing