Rectangular country house with a gable roof with the ridge perpendicular to the façade facing south. In this sector, there is a wall that closes off the site with two gates: one facing east, while to the west there is another that connects with the residential dwelling. The house consists of a rectangular doorway, several windows and a porch with a lowered arch at second-floor level. There is an oculus in the attic. The north side is blind, and there is a lean-to. On the east side there are several recent additions and on the west side it is attached to the residential dwelling. It is built with masonry, walling and lime plaster. It is in average state of preservation.

Villa Pepita

Residential house attached to the west of the Novísima farmhouse. It has a square floor plan and a different shaped roof. The main façade is located to the west and at each corner there is a tower, the one on the right has a circular section, with three floors and finished with battlements, while the one on the left is rectangular and also has three floors, with a pyramid-shaped roof. In the centre of the façade there is a rectangular doorway. There is another entrance doorway on the north side. It has a depressed concave arch, which corresponds to the ground floor of the square tower. To the left of this there is a body of galleries at the level of the first floor covered in three slopes and attached to the old house. It is built in grey stoneware, plastered and decorated with stucco, while the eaves are made of glazed tiles, as are the roof tiles and the heads of the beams, which are decorated. There are some wrought-iron decorative elements. There are also some artificial stone elements.

Novísima Shed

Shed used for agricultural work. It has a rectangular floor plan, a gable roof with the ridge parallel to the east-facing doorway. The eaves of the roof have a wide overhang on the part of the old façade, facing south, where there is a semicircular arched doorway formed by stone voussoirs and a wooden doorway. It is built with masonry in the lower part and walling in the upper part. The roof is made of tiles and wooden beams. It is in a medium state of conservation.

This country house can be found in the Nomenclature of the province of Barcelona from the year 1860. This date and the place name it bears lead us to believe that it is not a very old building. In the following century, at the beginning of the 20th century, a manor house was built to be the residence of the owners, a structure that still remains today.

The building consists of an old country house to which, in the early 20th century, a series of sections and towers were added, transforming the house into a summer residence. In this regard, it is necessary to highlight the existence of the original section, formed by the old house. This is a square-shaped building with a gabled roof and a ridge perpendicular to the façade. It has a ground floor, first and second floors and an attic, with the main façade facing south. Access to the building is through a central doorway, which is topped with a monolithic lintel. On either side of the doorway there are two square windows. On the first floor, there are three windows: a central square one and two rectangular ones on either side. On the second floor, the central space opens to what appears to be an old exit, now heavily restored and protected by windows. In the attic, there is a small rectangular window, horizontally placed.
It is believed that the building was constructed with irregular masonry walls, with the corners and the perimeter of the openings – doors and windows – reinforced with more finely cut square blocks. The entire building is now rendered with Portland cement and painted a light colour, with a brown skirting running along the outer perimeter. This render leaves the blocks forming the jamb of the main doorway and one of the first-floor windows exposed. The west and east façades of the original country house are no longer visible due to the additions made in the 20th century during the house's expansion.
Indeed, around 1909, Pepita Sitges, a resident of Barcelona, acquired the country house and wanted to turn it into a summer residence. To this end, she had a rectangular section with a ground floor and first floor built to the west of the house, flanked by two towers that adjoined the old corners of the house. Access to this section was via a lintelled doorway in the centre of the rectangular section, facing west. Beside this door, windows and balconies opened on the first floor. The section was finished with a flat roof, protected by a metal railing beneath which ran a cornice. Decorative elements include historicist motifs, especially in the mullioned window on the first floor, which features a hood mould and a central column imitating a Gothic-style window, and a first-floor balcony window topped with a fan-shaped keystone. The cornice under the eaves alternates corbels and tracery with floral motifs. On either side of this rectangular section, two ornamental towers were erected.
The tower on the south-west corner of the house is circular in shape. It has a ground floor, first floor and second floor, and is topped with a flat roof protected by a crenellated wall. Beneath this wall, there is a decorative frieze similar to that on the central section. The openings feature three barred windows on the ground floor and a large perimeter balcony running along the first floor. The first-floor windows leading to the balcony are lintelled and topped with a fan-shaped keystone, similar to those on the central section. On the second floor, there is a series of diamond-shaped windows running along the wall. Between the first and second floors, a brick frieze runs around the exterior of the wall. These are square white tiles with lithographic decoration that reads “Villa Pepita,” with two clovers on either side.
The country house likely dates back to the 17th-18th centuries, originally serving as a tenant farm for the monastery of Sant Tomàs and known as La Novísima, possibly because it was built after Casa Nova or Can Cepa. Records indicate the house was destroyed by French troops between 1808 and 1810, who were entrenched in the monastery. According to the memoirs of Father Balinyà, the convent guardian of Sant Tomàs, the events are documented: “Other blows ruined the houses belonging to the college. The first time they demolished all the floors or upper levels of the New (Can Soca), the Novísima, and Miralles….” “During the second invasion (1810), they destroyed them even more savagely than the first (1809), leaving them uninhabitable. The Novísima was left without a roof and with only the four walls; in the college…” “The New and Novísima houses were repaired as best they could, and the tenants moved back in, and the college was reorganised” (VILAMALA 2002: 184). The current country house was therefore rebuilt around 1810. At that time, the friars leased it to Jaume Masramon. A document from 1822 states that Novísima had 52 ‘cuarteras’ and 10 ‘cuartenos’ of cultivable land, and 11 ‘cuarteras’ and 6 ‘cuartenos’ of wasteland. The friars lost the house during the 19th-century disentailment (1842), and it was auctioned in 1850. At that time, it was purchased, like many other properties of the Sant Tomàs monastery, by the Italian speculator Caietà Cicarelli.
Originally, it was a tenant farmhouse with the typical structure of Catalan farmhouses. Around 1909, Pepita Sitges from Barcelona bought the property and intended to turn the old house into a summer house, initiating a series of new constructions with a distinctly historicist and modernist style. Since then, the house has remained in her family’s inheritance. In recent years, consolidation work has been carried out, particularly the exterior rendering of the façade, which has further unified the house’s appearance.
(Continuation of description) The tower on the north-west corner is square in shape. It has a ground floor, first and second floors, and a steeply pitched hipped roof. A first-floor balcony is protected by a stone railing with floral decorations. The first floor also features a mullioned window divided by four square columns topped with a vegetal capital. This type of window is repeated on all four sides of the tower’s second floor. Notably, glazed ceramic with floral motifs decorates the eaves of the roof and the balcony.
During this phase of modifications, another rectangular section with a ground floor and first floor was added along the entire north facade of the old house. This section is covered by a triple-pitched roof, with construction and decorative features matching the windows of the towers. A prominent feature is a large open gallery running the length of the north wall on the first floor, consisting of three large closed windows protected by a railing.
Currently, the combination of both buildings forms a unified structure. The common rendering and exterior paint give a sense of uniformity. However, the old house likely served as the residence for tenant farmers, while the owners occupied the modernist section. A dividing wall on the south corner prevents exterior passage between the two sections.
A barn is situated to the north-west of the house, leaving a space that was formerly used as a threshing floor. The barn is a rectangular structure with a gabled roof, facing east. The roof’s eaves have a wide overhang on the south-facing façade. One of the wooden beams in this barn is engraved with the date 1825, suggesting it was originally used for agricultural work. A notable feature is a window in the upper part of the south wall, with a semi-circular arch reinforced by wooden beams arranged like spokes. The barn’s lower section is built with masonry, while the upper section is of rammed earth.
The old road from Calldetenes to Folgueroles once passed in front of the house. A photograph in the book Sant Martí de Riudeperes in Calldetenes (VILAMALA 2002: 158), dated around 1910, shows the house and a section of the Folgueroles road, now converted into a highway.