Kwistenburg

English translation

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Description

FARMSTEAD COMPLEX situated near the Zwaakse or Kwistenburgse Weel, consisting of an 18th-century dwelling house with a somewhat wider adjoining barn, a 19th-century detached wagon shed with lean-to and extension, an early 20th-century pigsty and a presumed 18th-century bakehouse. The 18th-century dwelling house is covered by a gabled roof with red tiles; one chimney is situated on the ridge and a second chimney is placed against the side gable (from ground level to the roof edge); the front gable and side gable are plastered with cement in block form, the rear gable consists of red and yellow brickwork above a cement plinth; the door with fanlight is situated to the left of centre in the front gable; to the left of it a window, to the right of it two windows; the glazing bars of the windows have three panes in the upper section and a two-part division below; in the side gable two monastery windows under the roof and a small window in the upper storey; in the rear gable to the right a kitchen door, accessible via a stone step, to the left of it two nine-pane windows and a small window. The barn adjoining the dwelling house is somewhat wider than the living section; the barn has a thatched gabled roof to which a half-hipped end is attached, with horizontal wooden cladding on the courtyard side and on the gable end, and brickwork on the field side. In the wooden gable two double cart doors and a single door; above the double cart doors the thatched roof is raised; in the gable on the field side small horizontal rectangular windows, six stable doors and a barn door. The layout of the dwelling house and barn are still the original. The 19th-century wooden wagon shed is covered by a gabled roof with red tiles; the right gable has been rebuilt in stone; the lean-to is covered with corrugated sheet; against the left side gable a wooden extension, likewise under corrugated sheet. The early 20th-century pigsty is covered by a gabled roof with red tiles and has cast-iron windows; above four stable doors ventilation grilles are situated in round arches. The presumed 18th-century bakehouse is cemented and covered with red tiles; the baking oven is still present. The farmstead Kwistenburg is, considering its situation near the waterway of the same name, the grouping of the structures and the well-preserved main forms and detailing of the structures, of great architectural-historical value, whereby not only the 18th-century dwelling house with barn and bakehouse, but also the 19th-century wagon shed and the early 20th-century pigsty together justify protection as national monuments.