Paardestal(M), Kalverstraat 11

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The property, intended for a livery stable with horse stalls for harness horses, was constructed in 1904-1905 for farmer R. Spijkervet according to a design by the Steenwijk architectural office H. Aberson and Son. The property is a fine example of a hybrid form of neo-renaissance and art nouveau and has the same architectural characteristics as the coach house Gasthuisstraat 28 (STW030), which was built in the same years for this client.

Description

The property has two storeys under a hipped roof covered with bullet tiles and cut at the top. The symmetrical front facade with a higher-rising central section is dominated by two arched, double carriage entrance doors standing between narrow pilasters, which are provided with fittings, copper lockwork, tracery and undulating wooden bands. The keystone in the segmental arch above both carriage doors is decorated with a horse head. On the first floor is a straight-sided double loading door with central post and curved window tracery under hardstone lintel. The composite windows with panes of different sizes on either side are likewise provided with curved tracery under hardstone lintels and relieving arch. In the raised gable top corbelled out on corbels with consoles is also a double loading door with curved window tracery, but under a round arch with brick mosaic in the arch barrel. The setting of the eaves line at the gable point is formed by corbels with a pirn on the shoulders. The top and the zinc roof dormers on either side are likewise crowned with a pirn. The facade is terminated on either side of the projecting gable top by a cornice supported on carved corbels, between which tiles of granito have been placed. The facade is further enlivened by brickwork bands in contrasting colour.

The black-glazed facade plaque in the middle pilaster is largely destroyed, so that only the factory name "Gravo Marmorite Mij. Maastricht" can still be read.

To the right of the stables is a door under a narrow wall section to which a ram's head is attached and which is crowned by a weathercock on a sphere. In the long right side facade are a cast-iron ventilation window, two doors and a series of six-pane small windows. The rear part of this side wall belongs to a space that was added later. The interior is particularly remarkable because of the presence of the original stable layout with cast-iron columns for the partition screens with curved iron gates on wooden frames. The eleven wooden and iron hay racks are connected to the hayloft by means of drop hatches. The walls are lined on the inside with hexagonal tiles. The unjointed, plastered left wall is provided with iron fixtures for hanging tack. Behind the right carriage doors is a smaller, enclosed space, which originally served among other things as a washing room. The rear spaces are part of a later extension of the building. In the very spacious loft is a partitioned-off space with the inscription "laboratory" above the door. Part of the space above the loft is used as attic. The iron roof truss structure consists of a system of broken roof rafters with isosceles triangular trusses.

To the left behind the stables are still the remains of a winter garden on an unused plot of land.

Valuation

The horse stable is, because of its original function, its location in the old city centre, its architectural and stylistic intactness, its detailing and still-original interior, in all respects a very special architectural element in the city heart. The stable has great rarity value and is also of great cultural-historical and architectural-historical importance.