The lost court of Franciszka Zhevuska on the Galician suburb of Lviv, located at the present-day 14-16 V. Vynnychenka Street, has been examined. This court is a classic example of suburb residences that were common on the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18th centuries. According to the register of 1768, there were approximately 110 courts in the suburbs of Lviv, but none of them has not been preserved.
The article presents the results of the localization the buildings of the lost Zhevuski court based on descriptive and cartographic sources, specifically the inventory description from 1768 and Lviv maps from the late XVIII century. The complex included buildings of various types: a palace, an outbuilding, a stable, a granary, and an inn, indicating its use not only as the residence of the owners but also as a multifunctional complex with the potential for generating income.
The planning characteristics are determined, including the dimensions and outlines of the buildings in plan, the number of floors and the materials from which they are built. The main building of the complex is a two-story brick palace, built in 1774-1775 according to the project of the famous architect Petro Poleiovskyi. Other buildings and structures are wooden and built earlier.
The information presented in the article is the basis for the following studies of the architecture of the courts and the implementation of a theoretical graphic reconstruction of the Zhevusky court.
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