Fockensstate

English translation

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Description

Fockensstate. An importantly situated head-neck-body farmhouse located on a spacious own, partially still moated grounds, which in its present form manifests itself as mid- and second-half 19th-century, but which originated from an 18th-century state in its initial form, which has since (multiple times) been rebuilt and (among other things in the 19th century with a business section) has been extended. The donkey stable is also 19th-century.

A second-half-19th-century cast-iron gate provides access to the spacious courtyard. The tall trees on it could point to a 19th-century garden layout; a supposition that is supported by 19th-century photographs dating from before the partial demolition in 1879 of the old Fockens-state.

Stout head-neck-body farmhouse, of which the head with central risalit and eclectic plaster architecture is a design from 1879 by local master builder Luidje de Goed. The current building replaces a partly mid-19th-century and older state-like predecessor - as evidenced by the presence of an 18th-century (partial) basement and (now) boarded-up 18th-century tie beams with simple keystones in the former "great hall". The front facade is symmetrically laid out - thereby referring to the originally considerable character of the complex - and has an entrance section with double door, ornamental grilles, simple semicircular fanlight and sandstone step, spanned by a donkey-back arch resting on semicircular small columns, which transitions into a modest roof dormer with two four-pane windows; on either side of the entrance section two six-pane sash windows respectively two cellar windows and two six-pane sash windows; in the side facades a six-pane sash window and a blind niche, respectively two cellar windows, a six-pane sash window and a blind niche; the hipped roof covered with blue-glazed Frisian tiles has two corner chimneys with boards and pinnacles; the likewise plastered neck under a gabled roof covered with blue tiles, has among other things six-pane sash windows of a smaller format; internally presumably still 18th-century building traces; the body is 19th-century and is covered by a barrel-shaped hipped roof laid with blue tiles with owl boards; in the front, rear and side facades among other things a walking door, side swing-division doors and cast-iron stable windows.

To the right behind the main building lies a second-half 19th-century donkey stable, constructed of red brick and covered by a hipped roof laid with red and blue tiles with gutter on brackets; in the front facade two horseshoe-shaped entrances.

On the road side a cast-iron gate (XIXB), consisting of four fluted balusters between which two fixed and two movable gates with some ornamental ironwork, provides access to the courtyard.

In essence mid-19th-century and younger (1879) but in its initial form 18th-century farmhouse complex called Fockensstate, of general architectural and cultural-historical importance because of:

- the architectural and building-historical qualities of especially exterior and interior of head and neck - which reflect the distinguished history of the 18th-century state-like predecessor;

- the fairly unique second-half-19th-century donkey stable with horseshoe-shaped entrances, which can be considered as fitting to the considerable character of Fockensstate and which could well have been part of the suggested 19th-century garden layout;

- the second-half 19th-century cast-iron entrance gate;

- the importance of the entire complex, which by its location on a spacious own grounds with garden-like character and the remains of a moat, which likewise refer to the mentioned 18th-century condition, can be considered as an element reinforcing in a monumental and cultural-historical respect the long-standing prosperous and considerable character of Beetsterzwaag.