Daily Sketch No.174 The Road through the House, Barga, Tuscany

Just down the hill from Barga is the local cemetery and just near it is a tiny hamlet where the road goes through one of the houses! What I want to know is was the road made before or after the house was built? Imagine if it was the latter, someone comes around from the highway dept and tells you that your first floor is going to be demolished for a road!