Five low windows
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A casa era edificada com essa architectura simples e grosseira, que ainda apresentão as nossas primitivas habitações; tinha cinco janellas de frente, baixas, largas, quasi quadradas.
The house was built with that simple and coarse architecture which our earliest dwellings still show; it had five windows at the front, low, wide, almost square.
The house's plain, old-fashioned architecture: five low, broad, nearly square windows across its front.
Alencar grounds the fidalgo's seat in the plain colonial idiom — five broad, low, almost-square windows, the architecture of Brazil's first dwellings. The grandeur is all in the setting; the masonry is humble.
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