HOUSE OF "SEVILLANA"
Known as the Sevillana house, it was a house whose name corresponds to its use as a space for the transformation and distribution of electrical energy in Coín. As such, it originally belonged to Taillefer S.A., which in July 1940 obtained municipal authorization for the installation of a transformer station.
Subsequently, in the 1960s, it was transferred to the Sevillana de Electricidad company, and finally to Endesa.
Taillefer was, together with "Calle Hermanos y Compañía" and the company "Nuestra Señora de la Fuensanta", one of the pioneering companies in the production and distribution of electrical energy. It began its activity in Alhaurín el Grande and Coín, a town where it built the hydroelectric "Santa Teresa" in 1906. This "light factory" was moved by the waters of the Nacimiento river and was financed by its founder Mr. Augusto Taillefe Panyagua , born in Coín in 1868. Thanks to its rapid adaptation to technological changes and the energy market, it gradually expanded its territorial margins, absorbing a large number of pre-existing companies, including the aforementioned Coineñas and extending the business throughout a large part of the province from Malaga.
The house where the transformer station and the company's offices were located is one of the most balanced examples of contemporary architecture in Coín: a two-story house, with an Elizabethan-style façade and an interior adapted to the company's administration. It has a large colonnaded and landscaped interior courtyard, as well as a tower with regionalist traces.