Home Between Two Castle Towers

A timber-framed gatehouse tucked between stone towers and battlements, with three floors. In the attic, an elderly officer writes at a desk under medals and portraits while a young guard with a ring of keys stands beside a bed, among barrels and crates. On the middle floor at the left, a grandmother smooths a patchwork quilt as two children play on a matching rug; at the right, a woman works over a small model town beside a world map and stacks of books and a tall ladder. A staircase joins the floors. On the ground floor, two travellers with backpacks talk to a clerk at a desk, a toll clerk weighs coins behind a stone window and a stable hand tends a grey horse in its stall. The staircase threads straight down through the floors, a spine the rest of the gatehouse hangs from.