Boerderij, Nedereindseweg 561

English translation

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Description

On the edge of a higher part of the former bosom of the Hollandsche IJssel stands the iconic TRANSVERSE FARMHOUSE 'De Steenen Kamer' at the corner of the Nedereindseweg (formerly Noord IJsseldijk) and the Meerndijk. The former homestead, which came into being over several building periods, consists of a white-painted, plastered transverse house with undercellared upper room and front house, under a gabled roof covered with red Dutch tiles with a chimney in the middle of the ridge. At right angles to this stands the business section, executed in fair-faced brickwork, with a lower ridge height and shallower roof pitch under a gabled roof with red Dutch tiles. The oldest core consists of an upper room with a barrel vault underceller, which by virtue of the large format cloister brick and the wall thickness may possibly date from the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century. This is indeed a so-called 'stone room', which as the oldest form of a stone dwelling house offered an escape route at high water levels of the Hollandsche IJssel (see: P. Nuyens, De burchtvrouwe van IJselstein, Historisch verhaal uit de dertiende eeuw, 'De Katholieke illustratie (23) 1889/90, 315). The cellar, accessible via a staircase in the front house to the left of the hearth, has a cellar window set in a niche on the east side. Tiles are applied for the floor and plinth; in the south-east corner stands a bricked brine tub. At the beginning of the 17th century (1602;1620 ?) one or more alterations or extensions in the western direction took place. The transverse house with a small niche cupboard in the upper room and cloister windows with theft bars in the eastern gable end received its current main form at that time. The built-out privy to the south of the upper room indicates that the upper room acquired the character of a 'gentleman's room'. In 1762 'De Steenenkamer' is mentioned as an inn, for which purpose adjustments probably took place. Some sash windows in the western gable end date from the end of the 18th century. The 17th-century hearth placed against the upper room wall is furnished with 18th-century Delftware blue tiles and subsequently reduced in the 19th century and partially clad with marbled and tortoiseshell tiles. According to a cadastral map, the homestead already had its current T-shaped floor plan in 1819. However, the stable section was rebuilt in the 19th century, with the existing tie-beam framing for the three-aisle layout being reused and turned outward. The roof of the residential section was also renewed in this period using the old pine and oak timber rafters. This is evident from the illogical manner of joining the vertical and horizontal components, furnished partly with 16th-century carpenters' marks.

The symmetrically arranged western gable end of the residential section is a spout gable with on the ground floor three (simplified) four-pane sash windows and on the upper floor in the middle a two-pane case window. The northern side facade has at the location of the front house two four-pane sash windows with shutters and at the location of the upper room two higher placed, smaller six-pane sash windows. The eastern gable end likewise has a symmetrical arrangement with in the middle an early 20th-century double opening door, in front of which a concrete staircase is placed. To the right of this is a cellar window. On either side of the door is a cloister window and in the middle of the loft a four-pane sash window. The southern side facade has on the east side a built-out privy under a lean-to roof and on the west side a built-out kitchen section under a lean-to roof, which on the west side contains the entrance to the front house.