Located in the Ciutat Vella district, this terraced apartment building stands within the block bounded by Carrer de l’Hospital (from which the main entrance is accessed), Carrer d’en Robador, Carrer de Sant Rafael and Rambla del Raval. The building also contains the entrance to Passatge de Bernardí Martorell, which connects Carrer de l’Hospital with Carrer de Sant Rafael. The property, divided by the passageway, comprises a building made up of two sections joined by means of an arch over which construction has also taken place. Even so, the vertical structure of the principal façade presents a compact appearance and consists of a ground floor, three upper floors, an attic and a second attic resulting from a later 20th century addition. The ground floor, finished in Montjuïc stone, is arranged with four segmental arches giving access to shops and a central semicircular arch leading into the passage, where the building’s vestibule is located. This arch stands out for being framed by two fluted Doric semi-columns supporting an entablature composed of triglyphs and metopes. This Neoclassical work, which some authors have mistakenly dated to the sixteenth century, was formerly crowned by two seated sculptures of the gods Mars and Apollo, now lost. The openings, aligned along vertical axes, decrease in height on the upper floors and are framed by moulded stone jambs and lintels with flat bands. The balconies, which project progressively less on the higher levels and are supported by stone volute-shaped corbels with rounded corners, are enclosed by cast-iron railings featuring rich Neo-Gothic tracery ornament. The walls are rendered in stucco which, through varied polychromy, imitates ashlar blocks of white marble veined with grey. The most distinctive feature of this building, however, is its profuse ornamentation of terracotta relief appliqués inserted in vertical stucco panels between the balconies. This type of decoration, very characteristic of Barcelona architecture in the 1840s and 1850s, lends considerable plasticity to the city’s façades. The terracottas on this building take the form of intertwined vegetal candelabra in ascending compositions, incorporating putti, lion heads, faun-shaped pilasters, vases and acanthus leaves. The overdoors of the principal-floor balconies are also adorned with terracotta reliefs, in this case depicting allegories of the textile industry through factory scenes featuring children. The attic, separated from the floors below by a moulded cornice that serves as the base for the parapet balconies opening onto the street, is likewise decorated with terracotta reliefs in the form of floral garlands. The façade is crowned by a second attic added during the first half of the twentieth century, with its parapet balconies set upon the cornice that formerly marked the line of the roof slab.