Small Square
House number 141 - CAFÉ, JECHOVSKO, KNOPOVSKO,
THE FOUNTAIN
The plot of land under house number 141 was built up after 1820. Originally, it was a wooden house with a cowshed and a garden. After a fire in 1858, it was enlarged and reconstructed, and it still looks the same today. It is the last authentic original building in the southern part of Malé Square. (Neighbouring house number 142 was considerably rebuilt, and other buildings in the area between the Žernovník Brook and the foot of the church hill disappeared.)
The east façade facing the church has seven axes.
The main entrance into the building is on the ground floor; it is a wooden double-leaf
six-coffer door, possibly originating from the time of construction of the house. An iron double-leaf door is attached in the second axis on the left. There is a sham window on the ground floor in the first axis on the right. In the middle axis of the northern façade facing the square, there is an entrance into a former shop today a café. The façade is divided both horizontally by a plinth from sandstone blocks and 
a principle moulding with a dentil, and vertically by pilasters with Tuscan capitals on each floor. The interior
of both rooms in the café is vaulted with segmented barrel vaults; one
of them has two brick ribs. In 2005, roof timbers were repaired, four dormer windows built, and the original slate roofing replaced with asbestos-cement sheets. The house called Jechovsko was probably built as early as 1648. The house as it is today was rebuilt at the end of the 18th century after the fire of 1774. The original slate roofing was substituted with grey eternit at the end of the 20th century.
A half of the building is plastered in the so-called “fur coat”. And what does the legend say about “the humped cottage”? One of old crafts carried on in this cottage was the production of gingerbread. Mr Jech, who was called Marzipan at fairs and marketplaces, had a very beautiful daughter Leontýnka. So it happened that Pepi Nágl, a water sprite of the Žernovník Brook, fell in love with her. However, Leontýnka would have none of his love. She resorted to a trick hoping it would discourage the water sprite. She lured him into a room, locked him in, and kept him drying for five days.
The punished water sprite thought hard about revenge. One day, floodwaters came down the Žernovník, which enabled Pepi to sneak unnoticed into the cellar to the foundations, where he pulled out one stone after another. The building slid down a little but did not collapse as the water sprite had wished. Only the roof hunched a little, just like the back of a cow. Another historically interesting building in Malé Square is a brick house called Knopovsko. On the side of the house facing the square, there is an original Classicist door with an Empire style portal. Under the triangle gable, there is a relief of a mermaid. The gable ends with a Classicist sandstone vase at the top.
The fountain was built in 1828; its author is unknown. In the centre of the hexagonal sandstone reservoir, there is
a pillar. Its capital consists of four ovals bearing a tower with two crests on its sides. In the open gate of the tower, there is an inscription “Znakem miesta 1501”, meaning “The Crest of the City 1501”. The first restoration of the fountain took place before 1985; the water supply was restored and other repairs undertaken in 2002.
