Werk-woonhuis, Lange Nieuwstraat 53

English translation

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Description

Originally seventeenth-century but now mainly nineteenth-century in appearance, undercellared dwelling house with two storeys under tiled hipped roof, with plastered cornice-topped facade to the width of four window axes, with below large, partly still eight-pane sash windows and entrance with fanlight in straight frame, and on the left below a cellar window, on the first storey a set of four six-pane sash windows and on the second storey three four-pane sash windows and above the cornice a dormer; the largely plastered rear facade to the width of three window axes, shows above the garden door a section of a relieving arch and on the ground floor furthermore still two four-pane sash windows; on the first storey a set of three windows with still partly a six-pane glazing bar division; on the second storey two small four-pane sash windows; the facade is concluded by a straight gutter moulding on brackets, above which yet another dormer. Internally two barrel-vaulted cellars at the front and a barrel-vaulted and beam-vaulted cellar with fireplace concluded by a cornice, which cellars together with the still remaining relieving arch in the rear facade, some key pieces in the floor beam layer of the ground floor and components of the double-yoke roof truss structure of seventeenth-century origin are, while the double panelled door with semicircular arched fanlight and ditto windows either side, together with the panelled door with cornice and the remaining frames and niche in the hall are of nineteenth-century character. Historic town dwelling.