Boerderij, Kerkstraat 139

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Brick "HOEVE Vliegen", predominantly from the 18th century with a possible 17th-century core. Through later alterations the farmhouse has developed into a courtyard-type farm around an inner courtyard closed off by two gate entrances. The oldest parts are the residential wing, set at right angles to the street, and the gatehouse and barn with gate, both running parallel to the street. Opposite the farmhouse stands a stable building. Important interior components were added to the property in various phases during the 18th and 19th centuries. The farm is visually prominent, situated opposite the church on the building line of Kerkstraat. The gates are accessible from Kerkstraat and from Limburgerstraat, where an orchard formerly lay between the street and gate. The dwelling (no. 131) located in the angle between the gatehouse and stable building is not protected; this building part no longer belonged to the farm from the first half of the 19th century onwards. Originally the farm was more freely situated with two garden plots to the right of the residential wing. N.B. The roofs of the entire farmhouse, the gatehouse on Kerkstraat and the left barn were renewed in 2001-2002. The 18th-century transversely placed barn with gate passage to Limburgerstraat had no roof truss structure in 2010.

Description

Reddish-brown brick farm, predominantly laid in English bond, with an inner courtyard paved with setts, consisting of a gatehouse, a residential building on the right, a stable building on the left and a barn with gate passage at the rear. The gatehouse consists of a passage on the right and a room on the left, above it a loft storey with wooden floor on brick and wooden joists (binders). Front facade with traces of white finish. On the right a basket arch-shaped passage executed with restrained ornamental brickwork and glazed bricks, with double wooden gate, tall sandstone corner blocks and keystone with date 1764. Above the arch two wrought-iron ornamental wall anchors for a binder. On the left the front facade is blank. Facade termination with continuous gutter on corbels beneath the saddle roof placed parallel to the street (renewed c. 1995 and wall raised at that time). The basket arch is laid in the same manner on the courtyard side.

Elongated residential building of two storeys under saddle roof set at right angles to the street. The pointed gable on the street has three window bays on the ground floor and first floor, with six-pane windows with sandstone sills, shutters on the ground floor, two small windows in the loft storey, wattle-and-daub and six S-shaped wrought-iron anchors. The facade was reconstructed c. 1995 after removal of a render coating from the facade (previously there was a spout gable). Long facade on the courtyard side, created in phases from the 18th century onwards, with a front door with sandstone (Namur stone) frame, various windows and two openings for the cellars. The long facade on the outside with plastered black plinth, with an identical front door with fanlight with cross glazing bars in sandstone frame with keystone, nine window bays of varying size. To the left and right of the door latticed four-pane windows with relieving arches which indicate former cross windows, partly with 18th-century former cross windows with 19th-century glazing bars. Above the door a 30-pane sash window from the second half of the 18th century. Far right in the facade four bays with early 17th-century monastery windows, particularly well preserved on the first floor, with pegged frames, stained glass in the upper light. The facade section around the left two window bays is 19th-century, but overall it concerns an early 18th-century facade. Facade termination with ornamental brickwork with block tooth and saw tooth beneath (renewed) wooden rain gutter on corbels. Rear facade c. 1880 with garden door with construction traces of former extension. The interior is divided into four parts by three structural walls. Two front rooms form the youngest part of the house. From there two doors to the hall spanning the full width with two identical house doors on the courtyard and outside sides, a monumental oak staircase with balusters and a stair rail curled like a claw (18th century, originating from a larger building) which runs to the loft storey; beneath it a cellar stair. From the hall two doors to two rooms in the central section, each furnished with beam ceiling and fireplace. In the right room a rococo fireplace (c. 1760) with oak mantelpiece and plastered breast; tiling c. 1800 with Maas-region fire grate therein. In the room on the courtyard side a richly executed 17th-century fireplace with sides formed by natural stone caryatids. From this room two doors to three rooms separated by a structural wall, ending against the barn on the left and on the right with an outside stair to a somewhat higher situated garden; in the room behind the rococo fireplace an 18th-century step stair with balusters. Floors of Namur stone; joist layers of squared wooden and brick joists, also on the first floor, likewise a rococo fireplace with plastered breast and oak mantelpiece, with tiling therein. Various oak panelled doors of c. 1800. Two barrel-vaulted cellars in brick and marl (two phases 18th century) situated beneath the hall and the rooms with fireplaces, with from the first cellar a narrow passage beneath the front room and from the second cellar a passage to a stair well with above sealed cellar stair; this leads to the space at the rear on the courtyard side (now kitchen); in the vaults wrought-iron hooks.

The transversely placed 18th-century barn with gate passage (1760) is furnished with (temporarily capped) pointed gables of c. 1920, a year in which the barn was presumably shortened on both sides. On the courtyard side the facade stands with basket arch passage with sandstone corner blocks, setting and keystone blocks up to gutter height, likewise the rear facade. Wooden clamped gates front and rear, on either side small clamped side doors, pivoting in upper and lower sill stones, partly wrought-iron fittings and 18th-century door knocker. The gate passage is flanked by (remains of) half-height walls, above which loft rooms formerly stood. Against the courtyard wall a pump and water basin.

Of the stable building of c. 1900 situated to the left of the courtyard, the brick shell is preserved, the front facade of which is furnished with small stable windows, two doors and a double door with fanlights (partly after reconstruction), sandstone door frames.

Valuation

The brick "Hoeve Vliegen" is of general importance because of:

- cultural-historical value for the phased development of a farm into a closed courtyard-type with a phase of relatively very rich fitting-out and change of the front facade of the farmhouse;

- the functional recognisability of the distinct building components, for the stable building located in the shell of the masonry, the principal form and modest facade openings belonging to the business-like character;

- architectural-historical, building-historical and age value through the historical layering of the farmhouse and the development of the farmhouse with the other buildings into a courtyard-type farm, through the well-preserved old monastery windows and other detailing such as doors, fireplaces and stairs;

- urban-planning value because the farm forms part of an early development phase of the village centre with characteristic south-facing linear development;

- situational value through the visually prominent location opposite the church;