Boerderij(M1), Westgaag 100

English translation

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Description

Introduction

A CRUCK FARMHOUSE oriented to the southeast, situated on a narrow levee ridge, at the Westgaag in the Oude Campspolder. The transversely placed front house with an extended upper storey and rear living room dates in its origins from the 17th century (roof truss structure) and 18th century (brickwork). The adjacent elongated business section with threshing floor, horse and cattle stable was rebuilt in 1928, the rear part of the cattle stable dates from the 19th century. Several outbuildings to the north (wagon shed and pigsty) and south (remains of pigsty). On the farmyard at the side of the Westgaag is a small orchard, beside the house in front of the kitchen section stand lime trees, along the Westgaag the farmyard is closed off by a hedge.

N.B. The original pentagonal thatched hay barn has been replaced by a hay barn with four concrete rods, which falls outside the protection.

Description

Farmhouse on an L-shaped ground plan, consisting of a transversely placed front house of one storey with an undercellared upper storey beneath a thatch-covered gabled roof with half-hipped roof at the south side and low chimney at the north side, at the rear a living room with thatch-covered gabled roof. In line with this lies the business space with somewhat lowered side gables, consisting of threshing floor, horse and cattle stable, executed in Flemish bond brick and covered by a gabled roof with red machine-made Dutch tiles. The rear part of the cattle stable is partly executed in Flemish bond brick and partly in stone from the Ijssel and is covered on the south side with red tiles, on the north side with grey tiles. All roof ridges are situated at approximately the same height. At the end of the cattle stable in the north is an outbuilding with pigsty and wagon shed beneath a catslide roof covered with corrugated sheets.

The front house, executed in stone from the Ijssel, has a whitewashed front facade and is provided all around with a black-plastered plinth. The remaining facades are executed in fair-faced brickwork with above the black plinth a whitewashed band, at the cellar following the form of the windows.

In the front facade of the front house two segmental arches are visible in the brickwork, presumably from the 17th century entrance section. Just below the left segmental arch is the front door, renewed around 1930. Beside the segmental arches two recent nine-pane sash windows have been installed in the brickwork. The north gable is a stepped gable with timber framing and wall anchors (ornamental). On the ground floor a small four-pane window and at the right side on the upper storey an 18th century casement with sash window in 18th century brickwork and decorative brick corbels executed in red brick.

At the location of the tie beams large wrought-iron cross anchors have been installed in the north gable of the rear living room, between which is a window with a roller shutter. To the left there is another roller shutter. In the south gable of this room a small new window has been inserted in the corner, the large 18th century window is set in 18th century brickwork. Between both windows a construction joint. The gables are finished with a half-brick roller shutter.

The undercellared upper storey has in the front and rear gable rod anchors and a nine-pane window. South gable, in which a high-placed recent window, in fair-faced brickwork with rod anchors and two large recent cross-shaped anchors. Cellar with in the front and rear gable window frames with shutters. The brickwork of the upper storey is 18th century.

The three-aisle business section is constructed according to the fore-stall type with a transverse section. On the north and south sides wooden gutters on profiled blocks and half-round cast-iron stable windows with subdivision. To the north broad wagon entrance doors giving access to the threshing floor. On either side of the horse stable an entrance, above which on the north side is a roof dormer with hoisting shutters. The rear gable, dating from the second half of the 19th century, is partly executed in stone from the Ijssel. On the corners door frames, in the middle a stable window. The stepped gable, in which a round window with a six-foil, was renewed around 1930 and executed in Flemish bond brick in half-brick bond. The pigsty and wagon shed are executed in stone from the Ijssel and provided with entrance doors and half-round shutters.

The interior of the farmhouse consists of a front house with undercellared upper storey and a back room and a business section with threshing floor and stables.

The front house, with a simple painted brick beam layer, was provided in the 18th century with a new chimney section. Against the northern side gable is a baking oven. Red plinth with possibly 17th century Delftware plinth tiles with figures. Opposite the front door a staircase to the loft, formerly used as a sleeping room. In the corner to the right of the cellar hatch a box bed, of which the painted brick timber framework has been preserved. The roof of the front house is partly renewed, two roof trusses are 19th century. Against the stepped gable the smoke flue is still present.

The upper storey, with a turquoise-painted interior, is subdivided by wooden walls into an entrance hall, a small room and a large room, in which against the side wall are two 18th century box beds, with a baby crib, and between them a cupboard. Five tie beams, including straining beams, with between the windows against the rear gable two original key stones with renaissance profile, originally part of the corbel construction. The construction of the upper storey with floor beam layer and roof trusses is late 16th or early 17th century. On the loft floor three oak roof trusses consisting of yokes with curved rafter feet, which carry the floorboards over which the timbers are laid. The cellar accessible from the front house is reached via a cellar hatch with broad step treads and a mortared brick staircase. Red plinth, on the floor red tiles. Ceiling with a simple beam layer.

On the boundary with the business section on the roof floor against the party wall is an older chimney with smoke chamber.

The stable has three aisles of equal size and a simple beam layer. The stable fittings and brick floors are still largely original. The rear of the cattle stable has a roof truss structure from the second half of the 19th century.

Valuation

Farmhouse of the cruck type with interior components and associated architectural historical details in interior and exterior from different building periods of general importance because of its cultural-historical, architectural-historical, building-historical and landscape value. The visually determining farmhouse is part of the still remaining historical ribbon development of farmyards at the Gaag, mostly dating from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.