Waterweg, werf en haven, Séburch 5

English translation

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Description

SHIPWRIGHT'S YARD "De Hoop", formerly Evert Zwolsman. An importantly situated shipyard complex located at the foot of the dike and directly next to the original 17th-century lock sluice of Workum, presumably mid-18th-century in its initial form, but renewed in the course of the 19th century and restored in the years 1976-1977, consisting of dwelling house, carpenter's and pitch workshop (slipway shed) and shipyard with double slipway. On the yard wooden and (later) iron (fishing) vessels have been built and repaired for more than two centuries, including boeiers, blazes, schokkers, aken, tjalken and skutsjes. Since the restoration the complex has been in use as a repair and new-build yard for historic ships. The carpenter's shed would be the oldest still existing in Western Europe.

The first-half 19th-century dwelling house - originally with skipper's lodging on the upper floor - comprises two storeys on rectangular ground plan, is partially basement and is covered by a hipped roof laid with red tiles with two gable chimneys with boards; gutter on wooden brackets; the ground floor is constructed of brick with block render, the upper floor is clad with wood; the gable on the dike side has on the ground floor a 9-pane sash window with shutters; that on the yard side ground floor a panelled door with fanlight, on either side of which a 9-pane window respectively a 16-pane sash window; the upper floor has three 6-pane sash windows; the left side gable has on the ground floor two 9-pane sash windows with shutters; the upper floor a small 4-pane window; the side gable ground floor has two small 9-pane windows and an adjoining wooden porch. The living room still has a simple but well-executed 19th-century bed-closet wall.

The large wooden carpenter's workshop (or slipway shed) older in its initial form, but altered several times in the course of the 19th century (circa 1810 and 1835) has, due to a bend in the dike, a not entirely rectangular floor plan, rests on a plinth with buttresses of yellow Frisian stone and is covered by a three-sided hipped roof laid with red tiles with wind braces; the nail holes in the timber framing still recall the specific way in which kof ships were built at the time; the floor is of clay; the water-front section still contains the entirely removable system of beams, posts and doors which was created for the launching of large ships; the side facades have sliding shutters, some of which during restoration were replaced with windows with 12-pane glazing bars for better light. The much smaller adjoining pitch workshop - which was in use as a skipper's lodging until about 1835 - likewise has, due to the bend in the dike, no entirely rectangular floor plan, likewise rests on a low plinth of yellow Frisian stone and is also covered by a relatively steeply rising three-sided hipped roof laid with red tiles with wooden chimney; the separately standing left side gable has 12-pane sliding and 9-pane windows.

The shipyard with slipway (the original inclined slipway was replaced by a slipway around 1835), largely renewed on the occasion of the restoration, includes the slipway winch construction with frame and spindle.

Important shipyard complex located at the lock sluice of Workum (XVIII-XIX; restored 1976-1977), comprising a dwelling house, an almost unique carpenter's and pitch workshop and a shipyard with slipway, of general architectural, cultural and industrial-archaeological importance because of:

-the antiquity and development history of the complex;

-the degree of completeness and the architectural and industrial-archaeological qualities of the component parts;

-the uniqueness of type and scale of the carpenter's and pitch workshop;

-the presence of a double slipway with accessories;

-the place the complex occupies within the history of Frisian shipbuilding, and more particularly within that of the centuries-old shipbuilding of Workum, and consequently the strong historical interweaving with the economic history of the city;

-the location functionally characteristic in nature at the lock sluice;

-the - also in a tourist-recreational sense - important location on the west side of Workum.