Boerderij(M1), Westgaag 74

English translation

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Description

Introduction

A FARMHOUSE of the cruck-house type, oriented to the southeast, situated on a narrow levee ridge, at the Westgaag. The elongated farm building adjoining the front house with threshing floor, horse stable and cattle shed belongs to the feed-passage type.

N.B. Missing from the tiled wall in the back room of the front house are three 18th-century polychrome Makkum tile tableaux.

Description

Farmhouse on a T-shaped ground plan, consisting of a transversely positioned front house of one storey under a reed-thatched hipped roof with half-hipped end on the southwest side, adjoined at the rear by the residential section placed at right angles to it under a reed-thatched gabled roof and in continuation the farm building, with lowered ridge and side gables, covered by a gabled roof with red straight-laying Dutch tiles.

The front house, constructed in brickwork, consists of an undercellared upper room, connected by a transition room to the central room and a living room with kitchen area. The front house is executed in fine brickwork and is whitewashed around to approximately half-way up the walls, with the exception of the front facade which, at the location of the central room and living kitchen room, is provided with a black plinth.

Undercellared upper room with recessed square cellar windows with basket-arch lintels, provided with clamped shutters and some windows with theft bars. In the front facade of the upper room are 18th-century nine-pane sash windows above which segmental arches are visible in the brickwork. At the location of the central room are two six-pane sash windows, installed in this century in period style. In the right living room is the front door consisting of an upper and lower door with a six-pane fanlight with a six-pane sash window to the right of it. Below the roof at the central room and living kitchen are two windows each with a small six-pane casement window.

In the further blind right side facade of the front house is, in the lower right, a small window with a four-pane casement window, in the middle of the facade the chimney. To the right of this, against the rear of the front house, are wall sections of a built-out flat-topped brick oven on a square ground plan provided with a stucco layer.

In the left side facade is a high-placed six-pane sash window and bar anchors, below which are building traces of a large window in the middle visible. The rear facade of the upper room with brickwork in Ijssel stone is closed except for the two small recessed cellar windows with shutters.

The rear residential section is executed in Ijssel stone and has a lower ridge connection compared to the front house. Left gable section on the southwest with two six-pane sash windows, on the upper floor two windows with six-pane casement windows, cemented plinth. In the plastered right gable on the northeast are two coupled small windows with six-pane casement windows.

The windows are further closed at the top by a string course, below the windows a natural stone sill. Windows in a light yellow colour with blue frame surrounds and light-painted glazing bars. Shutters and front door are also painted blue. The facades are provided with bar anchors.

The approximately 28-metre-long farm building is constructed for the most part in Ijssel stone and consists of a transverse section with threshing floor and horse stable and a three-aisle cattle shed according to the feed-passage type. The right gable of the middle section is partly rebuilt in Flemish brick. In the facade is a cornerstone of the first laying in 1834 by G.J. van Woerden. In the side facades further small windows and some access doors with five-pane fanlight to the stable. In the left side facade at the horse stable is a cast-iron stable window with subdivision. The roof was renewed in the 20th century. At the last bay the roof truss is absent. Originally the gabled roof here was cambered and the gable provided with wattle, currently this building section is flat with corrugated sheeting. In the lower section of the rear facade are, on the left and right - at the crawl passages - some doors consisting of an upper and lower door. In the middle of the facade a shutter and a six-pane window. To the left of this a cast-iron stable window.

The internal structure of the front house has been well preserved.

In a turquoise-coloured upper room with a ceiling consisting of two main beams at right angles to the front facade provided with corbels and Renaissance keystones which can be dated to the third quarter of the 16th century and collar ties. Windows with internal shutters.

Cellar vault with main and collar beams, on the floor red tiles, along the stairs and plinth glazed red and green tiles. Cellar shutters with bars.

The central room has, parallel to the facade, two main beams with late-Gothic 16th-century pear-profile keystones. In the northwest corner a bed alcove from the early 20th century. Grey-painted wainscoting and ceiling.

Central room and upper room are connected by a transition room in which along the outer wall is a mortared cellar stairs, above which is a cupboard - accessible from the upper room. To the right of this a straight staircase of four steps leading from the central room to the raised transition room and upper room, and in the corner against the west wall a late 17th-century or early 18th-century bed alcove with segmental arch.

The living and kitchen room is regularly paved with clinkers and covered with stone-red painted main and collar beams. The two main beams stand perpendicular to the front facade. In the corner by the front door in the living room is a wooden pump and on the other side of the door a wooden draught partition. Against the outer wall a large built-out chimney breast, ochre-yellow painted with a stone-red moulded list with to the right an embedded cheese-cooking pot with decorative edge and loose wooden lid. To the right of this a timber end piece as a counterweight for the cheese press. Iron shutter to the external oven. The walls below the grey wainscoting list are painted in the same colour. Windows with internal shutters.

The rear large living room with single beam layer dates from the 18th century. Brown panelling and reddish-brown wainscoting. Back wall clad with white Makkum tiles with modern chimney breast. Against the northeast wall a bed alcove, internally grey painted, cupboard and door to the attic stairs, internally stone-red; panel doors provided with wood painting. Next to this room a small sleeping room with two bed alcoves with bed alcove doors painted in light brown colour and red tile floor. From this room a 17th-century oak door with original door handle forms the passage to the stable section.

On the upper floor above the upper room are three oak roof trusses from the 16th century consisting of collar ties with curved truss legs, which carry collar ties. Unboarded roof. Above the front house an oak collar tie with tie rod and keystones with pear-profile motif from one piece dating from the second half of the 16th century. On the partition with the farm building is located on the roof level against the fire wall a chimney with smoke chamber.

The stable has three aisles of equal size and a spruce tie-beam. The roof above the farm building was renewed in the 19th century.

Valuation

Farmhouse of the cruck-house type with interior components and associated architectural history details in interior and exterior from different building periods of general importance because of its cultural-historical, architectural-historical, construction-historical and landscape value. The visually distinctive farmhouse forms part of the still remaining historically largely from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries dating ribbon development of farmsteads at the Gaag.