Woonhuis, Waterstraat 20

English translation

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Description

Building between Waterstraat and Welle at the location of the outer, medieval town wall, 1.1 metres thick recognizable in the basement. Against the inner side of that wall stood around the 15th century a shallow building as evidenced by the basement with trough vaults parallel to the street on belt arches with natural stone central pillars. In the early 19th century the building was extended over the wall, to the Welle side. The arrangement of now plastered front and rear façades with their sash windows with three panes in width, the front door and the gutter mouldings on blocks will have come about at that time. The interior contains elements from the middle or third quarter of the 19th century when large meeting rooms or a lodge were housed here: the hall with panelled doors and staircase on the ground floor; the vestibule and hall on the upper storey of which the partition wall with broad doors under round arch, flanking marbled half-columns and stove recesses remain. The hipped roof, likewise from the early 19th century, is carried by six trusses with St Andrew's crosses, for which much older, heavy oak roof timbers have been reused, together with softwood. Nineteenth-century building with special positioning on the town wall, provided with a medieval basement on the town side and remnants of the nineteenth-century interior.