House at Sítio do Padre Inácio, Portuguese colonial house in Cotia, Brazil.

The House at Sítio do Padre Inácio is a rectangular rural casa-grande of rammed earth (taipa de pilão), set level halfway up the slope so rainwater drains away from walls dug directly into the ground without a stone base. Its modest openings keep the interior dim. The front façade lines up the chapel, the guest room with its own independent entrance, and the alpendre; from the alpendre one passes into the great room, with the bedrooms arranged around it and no corridors. The kitchen and bathroom stood outside the main building.

The casa-grande was built around the early 18th century, roughly a century before Anna de Barros Leme owned it; her grandfather, Sargento-mór Roque Soares Medella, had it erected. Her widowed cousin Ignácio Francisco do Amaral lived there from 1798 and became a priest in 1810 at fifty-seven. After their deaths the estate passed to German immigrants, and IPHAN listed it in 1951, CONDEPHAAT in 1974.

The house is known by the name of Father Inácio Francisco do Amaral, a widowed cousin of owner Anna de Barros Leme who lived on the estate from 1798 and was ordained a priest in 1810 at the age of fifty-seven. After the deaths of Anna and the priest the property was sold to German immigrants, but popular memory kept the house tied to its former resident. The kitchen and the bathroom stood outside the main building.

The house is located on Padre Inácio Road in Cotia, São Paulo, and is accessible to visitors interested in exploring early colonial architecture. Its location near the city makes it easy to reach if you are traveling in the greater São Paulo area.

The stone millstones of the old moinho still lie half-hidden in the lawn in front of the house, the only remains of the support buildings that once stood around the sede. The rest of the complex, including shelters for animals and slaves, has disappeared.