Seven Doors House

The plot passed to Joao Vicente Lobo in 1912, and the house on it was built in 1932 by Vincent Gaspar Lobo, who also once owned the Royal Hotel in Jabalpur. The present owners acquired the property in 2020 and spent five years restoring it, finishing in 2025, working with architects, conservators and craftsmen from Jeernodhar Conservators who treated the sal wood, prepared the lime plaster and laid the oxide and Kota stone floors.

The estate covers 33,000 square feet in Moica Vaddo, a hamlet of Pilerne village in Bardez, and the village is a protected wetland. Eight en-suite bedrooms are split between the main house, which holds five, the Presidential Suite cottage and the two-bedroom Twin Cottage. The main house rooms take their names from their coloured oxide floors, Quarto Amarelo in yellow, Quarto Verde in green, Quarto de Mar Azul in blue with a balcony over the pool.

A Piscina de Pedra runs fifteen metres in stone with a jacuzzi at its edge. Stained glass panels by The Glass Studio, Mumbai, carry the colours of the Pilerne paddy fields. Meals come from a permaculture garden of okra, amaranth and lemongrass and are served under the original sal wood beams in the Sala de Jantar.