The house was part of the mayorazgo created in 1571 by doña María Baltodano, wife of Don Gome de Cárdenas. It will be Mrs. Elvira Cárdenas Baltodano and her husband Mr. Luís Valdivia Figueroa, a gentleman from Santiago, who will begin the construction of the aforementioned house.
The façade, set back from Calle Maestra, is preceded by a spacious square, which was public until 1848, the year it was annexed to the house and closed with a crenellated wall with a door and semicircular openings.
Two elements of very different use make up the house of the Children of Don Gome: the manor house of the inhabitants and the stable. On the façade of the house, built on a plane more advanced than that of the stables, its portal-tower stands out, built unlike the other elements of the set in sandstone. Cover-tower that was built in the second third of the seventeenth century by Don Gome de Valdivia, Cárdenas y Guzmán and Doña Mayor Nicuesa and which is framed from the formal point of view in the Baroque style.

Currently the building has a cultural use, in it is the Professor Sotomayor Archaeological Museum, it is the headquarters of the courses of the Autumn University of the University of Jaén and the corporation holds plenary sessions in the Hall of the Stables