At the end of the 14^th century, the Ledesma Council had to meet in the Santa María la Mayor church to make public an exemption from the King, and years later they decided to acquire a few houses to build their seat. The quiet inner courtyard where the Tourist Office is located nowadays was built then, at the end of the 15^th century.

The granite masonry façade shows two different parts: The ground floor, more decorated, features two doors with semi-circular arches, one of them is the entrance to the courtyard with Gothic columns, and the other one leads to a staircase that goes to the top floor. This floor has a long covered balcony with four semi-circular arches closed by  José Delcraux’s glasswork and an iron grille balcony.

Towards the east there is a lower window which belongs to the former Royal Prison, and is part of the renovation carried out in the early 17^th century.