Wagenmakerij, Timpweg 2

English translation

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Description

Introduction WHEELWRIGHT'S WORKSHOP WITH DWELLING HOUSE, extremely picturesque situated south of and on the Damsterdiep near the bridge over the Damsterdiep east of the city of Groningen and originally forming part of the former village of Oosterhoogebrug, built circa 1800-1850 in a craft-traditional building tradition. In front of the old front house stood an old stoke hut, which around 1900 was replaced by a new front house, which probably also served as a bridge keeper's house. The brickwork and windows in the south facade of the rear barn have been renewed. The building currently stands empty awaiting a new use and restoration. Description The ensemble of buildings situated one behind the other and connected to each other is erected on an elongated, rectangular floor plan and comprises one storey under hipped and gabled roofs. The old front and dwelling house comprises one storey under a gabled roof with half-hipped end, covered with old red hollow tiles. The northern side facade is five bays wide as is the south facade. The facades are constructed from red Groningen brick. The northern side facade in the oldest section (possibly eighteenth-century) contains in the middle the entrance, which consists of a wooden front door with narrow fanlight with a fan-shaped wooden glazing bar. On either side are two lightly arched, straight-edged windows fitted, which like the door are closed with stanchions. The two windows on the left side contain the original six-pane glazing bar arrangement. The dwelling house section still contains an old, raised chimney and the windows have interior shutters. The southern side facade contains a wide wooden business door which is closed with a stanchion with a straight-edged window to the left of it with a four-pane glazing bar arrangement and a horizontal cellar window with grille work. To the right of the business door are three lightly arched, straight-edged windows with a six-pane glazing bar arrangement on the ground floor. The rear part of the dwelling house is raised and contains a small attic, which is lit by a window with a four-pane glazing bar arrangement. Adjacent to the dwelling house section to the east is a characteristic wooden barn whose walls consist of pot-covered sections. The barn contains a slightly raised roof truss on wooden posts, which is also covered with old red hollow tiles. Adjoining this again and in line with it stands an elongated barn of red brick under a gabled roof with half-hipped end at the rear, likewise covered with old red hollow tiles. The northern side facade of this barn, which has a break and here in the facade of the break possesses a narrow window, contains two original six-pane windows and an attached oven with chimney. The rear facade contains three windows on the ground floor with a four-pane glazing bar arrangement and in the gable two horizontal windows. The later attached front house dating from around 1900 on the bridge side is erected on a triangular floor plan and comprises one storey with an attic storey under a truncated hipped roof, covered with grey cross tiles. The facades are finished with an encircling wooden gutter line, which carries a profiled wooden drain gutter. The bent front facade contains three straight-edged windows with coloured leaded glass in the fanlights and segmental arch discharge arches with stucco blocks and closing stones. In the northern side facade are two identically designed windows with a front door with fanlight and discharge arch. The interior is still very well preserved. Assessment WHEELWRIGHT'S WORKSHOP WITH DWELLING HOUSE, extremely picturesque situated on the Damsterdiep in Oosterhoogebrug, built in the first half of the nineteenth century in a craft-traditional building tradition, of general importance because of its cultural-historical, landscape and architectural-historical value and because of its typological rarity as a reasonably well-preserved example of rural building practice in the immediate vicinity of the city of Groningen and because of its significance for the socio-economic history of the former village of Noorderhoogebrug east of the city of Groningen.