The two-storey timber-framed house has a gable front in the middle, a saddle roof on its left and a superstructure over the courtyard gate and the adjoining front-door on the right. The groundfloor outer walls have a plaster coating. This used to be the customary type of wattle and daub house in the centre of the old town. Quite exceptional is the semicircular bay-window next to the entrance. The house was built before 1775. There is an epigraph on the arch of the yard-gate: G+F + MCM 1802, which shows that this part was joined in the napoleonic periode by the carpenter Georg Fiege (1754 -1820) and his wife Maria Catharina Mies (1759 -1819). They were maried in St.Laurentius church at Ahrweiler in January 1781. Georg Fiege’s father came from Westfalia. Maria Catharina Mies was born at Ahrweiler, most probably even in this house.

In the 19^th century the building came into the possession of the master cartwright Peter Vendel. The register of real property mentions the house, a yard, a barn and a stable. In 1908 the master house-painter Anton Tobias Knieps inherited the building and later passed it on to his two children. In 1987 Eugenio Monleon and his wife Rita Lauter bought the property from the painter Josef Knieps. Some furniture remained in the house and now decorates the Schlafstübchen (tiny bed-room, the name of the house). This building won a first prize for its beautiful façade.