As the woman required more dependence on carers due to age, she moved to an elderly home care.

She left the house vacant but continued to pay the low rent based on her contract, which was agreed upon several years before.

[3] The Planning Authority (PA) has received a demolition application in 2017, which is now subject to a board decision over the matter.

[3] On a political level, the Partit Demokratiku (Democratic Party) has advocated for its conservation and showed its concern if the demolition would be given the go ahead.

The spokesperson for the party said that:[3] Its destruction would set a precedent for neighbouring buildings of cultural and heritage value to Malta and negatively affect the quality of life of residents.

The part of the façade on the upper floor has a traditional closed timber balcony, supported by detailed decorative corbels the middle of which having a sculpted head of a lion.

The interior of the house is rich in architecture and has been described by the Planning Authority as “consist[ing] of a symmetrical double fronted town-house having a restrained neo-classical exterior with a more lavish internal layout accentuated by fine architectural detailing concentrated in the main hall and main staircase, together with its centralised axis leading from the front door to the ‘nympheum’ at the back of the garden.

The town house under consideration is the last in this row of houses which abut it on the left, whilst on the right it is abutted by a single fronted Art Nouveau town house, attributed to Architect Giovanni Psaila who worked prolifically in the Sliema area during the first part of the 20th century and whose most noteworthy work is Balluta Buildings.”[7] The townhouse has a large back garden, with trees that were planted years ago which are sparse over its grounds.