Woonhuis, Gansoordstraat 14

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Core 15th-century brick-built HOUSE WITH REAR WING with a 17th-century extension at the rear (SW) of the dwelling with associated water drainage and well. The dwelling is possibly one of the oldest houses in Naarden whose parts survived the fire of 1572. The gable shared with neighbours on the south-west side contains a smaller and older gable with candle recesses and probably dates from the middle of the 15th century. This oldest part of the dwelling may have belonged to the neighbouring property, namely because this property has a vaulted cellar in the section bordering the shared gable. In 1974 the object was restored in its entirety, with the aim of preserving as many original components as possible. Thus the gables and the wooden roof truss structure were left as intact as possible. Furthermore, the block-plaster of the front facade was removed and new doors, shutters and windows in historicising style were installed. The high loft was split during this renovation into a first floor and an attic storey. The roof is provided with five roof windows on the street side and three small roof dormers and two roof windows on the garden side (SW). During this restoration the iron railings on either side of the front facade were also replaced. N.B. The barn to the south-east of the object falls outside the protection.

Description

Core 15th-century brick-built HOUSE WITH REAR WING, constructed in brick with plastered plinth on a rectangular ground plan under a gabled roof covered with red Dutch tiles and a 17th-century extension under a lean-to roof at the rear (SW) of the dwelling. The front facade (NW) with wooden gutter and cornice and wall anchors has a symmetrical facade arrangement with in the centre a panelled door with 9-pane fanlight, sandstone sill and a wooden surround of two pilasters with base, smooth shaft and geometric capital and cornice. On either side of the door is a sash window with 12-pane glazing bars in the sash section and 8-pane fanlights under relieving arches which do not align with the window frames and are wider than the windows. The windows are provided with hinged shutters. On both boundaries with neighbouring properties are two iron railings. The rear facade (SW) with wooden gutter on corbels has on the right two 9-pane windows, in the middle a door with a separately hinged upper part (with 9-pane window) and lower section and on the left a door-and-window combination consisting of a double door and a window on either side of which the four parts are provided with a 10-pane window. All windows, doors and shutters of the front and rear facades were installed in the nineteen-seventies. The gabled roof, crowned by two square chimneys at the ends, has five roof windows on the street side and on the garden side three roof dormers and a roof window in the gabled roof and a roof window in the adjoining lean-to roof. The roof dormers and windows were installed in the nineteen-seventies. The structure of the front section is determined by a central passage and a room on either side. The front section is constructed with the aid of a core 15th-century wooden skeleton frame. Above the ground floor are three original late 15th-century oak principal beams, of which the middle and south-west located beam at the former rear of the dwelling are provided with keystones with pear bead profile and a carved rosette. The most south-west located beam is a 17th-century softwood beam. The oak roof consists of three late 15th-century double frames, tall curved timbers and a late 19th/early 20th-century softwood rafter roof. The double frames are provided with carved carpenters' marks which number from north-east to south-west. The distinction between left and right is formed by broken marks. The tall curved timbers of the lower frame have their original half-lap fitted corner beads. The east-west facing gable contains a smaller and older gable with candle recesses which possibly dates from the middle of the 15th century and may have belonged to the neighbouring property. The remaining part of this facade and the north-east facade (which is located behind a wall bricked up in the nineteen-seventies) dates from the late 15th century. In the garden is a brick well and a brick construction has been built onto the east side of the garden facade which probably served as a drainage system. The house with rear wing is located in Gansoordstraat within the fortified town of Naarden.

Valuation

The dwelling at Gansoordstraat 14 is one of the oldest dwellings in Naarden and of general importance for its architectural, cultural and building-historical value as an example of a well-preserved brick-built core 15th-century house with rear wing with a 17th-century extension, of which the internal structure, all traces of the earliest building phases and the 15th-century oak roof truss structure are clearly recognizable. The dwelling is of situational and typological importance as a house with rear wing, a type of house inhabited by the less affluent, located within the fortified town of Naarden.