The initials L.B.N.V. stand for “Liber Báró Nagy Váradi” (meaning Free Baron of Nagy Várad); it is probable, therefore, that during the 18th century, a different manor served as the countryside residence for the aristocratic family from Várad/Oradea. The plaque of that manor was then built into the sidewall of the baroque castle; the stones of the manor are also supposed to have been used in the construction of the new building. The “Medieval fortress”-like appearance of the three-storey facade, its composition suggestive of inapproachability, enclosure and distancing, its tower-like corner risalits, as well as its crenelated parapets with arrow slits all contribute to an anachronistic look and feel, even to someone living in the romanticising and historicising/architecturally reviving mood of the 19th century. The unfriendly appearance of the facade is dissolved, to a degree, by the large, circular-arched windows of the short “wall section” connecting the two “towers”. Upon a closer inspection, it can be seen that the majestic facade is merely a “mask”: behind it a columned building of an obviously more modest size.