Picturesquely spread out by the Uszka river, a tributary of the Uszyca, the village of Pokutyńce initially formed part of the estates of the Bar starosty.
At the end of the 18th century, it was said to be owned by the Humiecki family of the Junosza coat of arms, a wealthy Podolian family, then by the Kuzer family, and in 1820 and later by Ignacy Czerkas of the Jelita coat of arms, the chorąży of Bełz. Besides Pokutyńce, he also owned Wońkowcem, Majdan Wońkowiecki, and Wysoka Grobla. Little is known about the Czerkas family, of indigenous origin. In 1509, Iwaszko Czerkas, a royal courtier, appears on the historical scene. Barbara Czerkas, living in the mid-17th century, was married to Teodor Humiecki. Gabriel Czerkas, presumably already Polonized, held the office of the cup-bearer of Mielnik in 1682. Most likely, his descendant was the aforementioned Ignacy Czerkas. He had a son, Ludwik, who in 1844 proved his nobility in the Podolian governorate. In the second half of the 19th century, Władysław Grocholski of the Syrokomla coat of arms, married to Maria from the Rohoziński family, bought Pokutyńce. The last owner of this estate, which covered 1710 desiatinas of land in 1917, was his son – Józef Grocholski (1876 – 1949), married to Maria Modzelewska.
Ignacy Czerkas, if not one of his predecessors, built in Pokutyńce a spacious, brick, single-story manor house, which existed there until the end of World War I. It stood on a foundation with an elongated rectangular plan. A slightly higher, central, three-axis part of its thirteen-axis wide front elevation, delineated by pilasters, was accented by a portico composed of two pairs of Tuscan columns, set on a stone terrace elevated by three steps. The columns supported a triangular, smooth pediment, highlighted only at the bottom by a wide, profiled cornice. This classicist manor also received small neo-Gothic accents in the form of pointed-arch window closures on both sides of the main entrance doors. The entire building had smoothly plastered facades, pierced by small rectangular window openings, framed in deeply profiled frames. The window joinery dated from the second half of the 19th century. The monotonous garden elevation had no accent. It was enlivened only by a slightly different arrangement of windows, four of which were paired. In the central part, corresponding to the front portico, there was a low terrace. The body of the manor was crowned by a very prominent, profiled eaves cornice. The house had a smooth four-hipped roof, once shingled, later covered with sheet metal.
The interior housed more than twenty rooms, with a large hallway on the portico side and an even larger salon or rather a longitudinal hall, located in the middle of the garden tract.
All rooms were painted smoothly. Oak flooring, laid in large squares, was found only in a few representative rooms. A few brick fireplaces also survived until recent times.
Since the Grocholski family acquired Pokutyńce with an empty house, they only partially managed to furnish it with old furniture, not dating beyond the first half of the 19th century. They also gathered some paintings and other works of art, as well as a small library. The most valuable family mementos, however, were kept in other, older family residences.
Right next to the main residential house on its left side, stood a not very spacious outbuilding, set perpendicular to it, with facades vertically divided by wide pilasters, covered with a smooth gable roof. It housed kitchens, pantries, and rooms for the staff. Both the house and the outbuilding stood amidst a vast, multi-hectare landscape park with magnificent specimens of deciduous and coniferous old trees. Directly in front of the manor’s windows, on long flower beds, grew tall roses, and in summer, decorative plants grown in the orangery were also placed on them and around the portico. However, there were no traditional, open lawns in front of or beyond the house in Pokutyńce. A wide open space was left only for the driveway and around the manor.
The pride of this modest residence was a long and wide entrance avenue, lined with old lime trees.
Roman Aftanazy “History of Residences in the Former Borderlands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”