Woonhuis, Verwersstraat 13 A

English translation

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Description

Presumably seventeenth century, three window bays. Broad building with one storey above ground level under a hipped roof covered with blue Dutch tiles. The nineteenth-century roughcast plastered front facade has windows with T-frames (ground floor), 6-pane (first floor) and 4-pane (attic) sash windows with stucco decorations below the windows and above the attic windows and with moulded surrounds on the first floor and attic, and is finished with a moulded cornice with dentil course and simple decoration in the friezes.

The rear facade is a plastered cornice-topped facade with 6-pane casement windows. Internally: small cellar with barrel vault below the rear room; simple beam layers; roof truss structure with pine wood raking struts with tie-beam; rear room with richly decorated stucco ceiling, fireplace with mirror and allegorical representations and with corresponding wall panelling, window surround and doors (first half 19th century); on the first floor a fireplace with round breast and pear-shaped firebox (second half seventeenth century).

Separate rear building (seventeenth century) with two storeys above ground level under a hipped roof covered with blue Dutch tiles. Painted front facade facing the courtyard with 6-pane casement windows; blind, plastered side facade; rear facade constructed of fine brickwork with 6-pane sash windows and finished with a moulded band. Internally: simple beam layers with some wall posts with corbels; roof truss structure with pine wood raking struts with tie-beam.