Boerderij, Elswoutslaan 24

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING OF THE FARMSTEAD. Approximately square building, whose definitive design by C. Muysken dates from 1884. It consists of an also approximately square cattle shed, surrounded on three sides by wings of which the southern and northern ones protrude slightly beyond the square at both ends. These wings contain various stables, farm and residential spaces, above which attics extend; a veranda is placed against the western wing. The building has brick facades with a continuous plinth, formed by the stepping of brick courses, two of which are executed as roll mouldings.

The southern wing is covered by a saddle roof overhanging at the ends, which in the manner of the so-called chalet style is provided with a set of carved braces; such braces support the gutter moulding. The window and door openings of various forms have relieving or discharge arches, which in the gable ends are accentuated by natural stone blocks; the attic doors are moreover provided with nogs. The doors are clamped and possess wrought-iron hinges.

The western wing is covered by a hipped roof adjoining that of the southern wing, the gutters of which are supported by braces as with the southern wing. The facade contains arched doors and windows under relieving arches with natural stone blocks. The windows and attic door have natural stone sills; the doors are clamped and possess wrought-iron hinges. The windows on the ground floor contain cross windows with a diagonal glazing bars; the latter also fills the windows of the veranda covered by a lean-to roof.

The cattle shed is covered by a glazed roof truss structure, the cross-section of which is outlined in the form of the gable ends of the outer wall and the overhang is provided with carved wooden braces. Said outer wall contains on the ground floor and in the gable ends arched door openings under relieving arches with natural stone blocks, and in the middle a round window, set in a one-and-a-half brick roll moulding with four natural stone blocks. The doors are clamped and possess wrought-iron hinges.

The northern wing, which faces the access road and contains the residential spaces, is distinguished by a richer treatment of the massing, the silhouette effect and the facade treatment: consisting of a deeper central section, flanked by recessed side sections, the wing is covered by hipped roofs provided with roof dormers, which bend outward at the foot, of which that above the central section projects beyond those of the side sections. The facades are accentuated on the ground floor by two bands consisting of brick courses of differing colour and collars which continue on the upper floor over profiles of brick with natural stone corner blocks; here they are enlivened by alternating narrower and wider rectangular niches with sills of glazed brick, several of which contain windows.

The zone above it, in which here too carved braces support the gutters is provided with timber cladding with open-work executed planks. The accentuation of the front and gable facades culminates in the middle: in the front facade by a risalit, which on the upper storey in half-timbering with a pattern of diagonal crosses is executed and above it is terminated by a projecting, cambered embedded hood with a system of carved braces in the manner of the chalet style, which overarches a gable end with timber cladding with open-work executed planks and window; the gable ends are accentuated in a similar manner by clamped attic doors with wrought-iron hinges inserted halfway up the upper storey and the roof, set in wooden aediculae corbelled over carved braces with cambered embedded hoods. In the front surface of the aediculae a system of carved braces is likewise provided and between the braces on the upper storey half-timbering with a pattern of diagonal crosses as in the central risalit of the front facade. The front facade shows in the central section on either side of the central risalit, where the clamped front door with fanlight and canopy is located, two window axes with arched six-pane windows on the ground floor under relieving arches with natural stone blocks, and corresponding in the niches on the upper floor twelve-pane windows; in each side section a similar window axis is found. The gable end on the east side contains a similar ground floor window and in the gable end on the west side stands a glazed panel door with fanlight.