Kerkelijke dienstwoning, Middelberterweg 30

English translation

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Description

Introduction PARSONAGE, standing freely situated on a large, partly moated park-like garden with mature trees opposite the medieval Protestant Church of Middelbert, built in 1744 according to a foundation stone in the rear facade. Around 1880 the parsonage was renovated and the building acquired its current appearance in a richly decorated, eclectic style. Around the turn of the century the current entrance structure was presumably added with a balcony and worked finials between which an elegantly worked wrought-iron railing with Art Nouveau motifs. The entrance was also renewed at that time. In the nineteen-twenties a whitewashed garage was added to the rear under a hipped roof, covered with black-glazed old Dutch tiles which probably came from an old, no longer existing barn. Above the entrance in the rear facade is a facade stone with the text: "Anno MDCCXLIV As Church v. was H.Muntinghe Borge.M in Gron Past.Joh.Bril", framed with foliate scrollwork. The building is currently in use as a (private) residence. Description The building, symmetrical in design, is built on a square ground plan, is partly cellared and has one storey under a truncated hipped roof, covered with black Lucas Ijsbrand tiles. The facades are finished with a profiled wooden gutter, below which a continuous round-arched frieze in stucco is applied. On the ridge stand four original, octagonal stuccoed chimneys with boards. The five bay wide front and side facades have a stuccoed basement of bold bossed rustication blocks in imitation, finished with a heavy profiled moulding. The remaining facade sections are whitewashed. The corners have bossed blocks in stucco, topped with capitals. The rear facade is whitewashed and provided with false joints; above the entrance a nice foundation stone from 1744. The straight-topped T-windows have a profiled stucco frame with blocks and stucco decorations in the spandrels between the consoles. The central entrance consists of a worked wooden panel door with cut glass and fanlight and a sandstone portico (seven steps) with sandstone balusters and iron railings on either side. Above the entrance a whitewashed, straight-topped entrance structure with a broad balcony on three worked hard stone consoles with an elegantly worked wrought-iron railing with Art Nouveau motifs and topped with a metal weather vane in the form of a fire-breathing dragon. The entrance structure has French balcony doors and is topped on either side with worked hard stone finials, between which an elegantly worked wrought-iron railing with Art Nouveau motifs. In the front roof panel on either side two small wooden roof dormers with shed roofs and black Lucas Ijsbrand tiles. The internal structure of the building is still intact. The largely nineteenth-century interior decoration and fittings have been very well preserved. Of particular importance is the long hall, wooden panel doors, carved window seats with consoles and stucco ceilings and the quarter-round wooden cupboard in the kitchen. Valuation Parsonage, beautifully situated in the midst of an old, moated park-like garden with mature trees opposite and originally belonging to the medieval Protestant Church of Middelbert, renovated in a richly decorated eclectic building style, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value, because of its integrity and its particular relationship between exterior and interior.