Aalvanger

English translation

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Description

FARMHOUSE DE AALVANGER

Introduction FARMHOUSE 'de Aalvanger', with adjoining BARN and HEATING SHED, lies in open countryside to the south of Zwolle in the former Zwollerkerspel, near the Aalvangersbrug bridge over the Soestwetering. The farmhouse faces south with its front gable. The farmyard is accessible from the rear via the Zuthemerweg to the north. This road was laid out in 1867 to connect Windesheim with Heino. The farmhouse of the hall-and-parlour type was built in different periods and probably dates in origin from the 17th and 18th centuries. Its present appearance is largely determined by a thorough 19th-century alteration, whereby the gables were partly rendered with plaster and sash windows were installed. The original glazing bars of the windows were removed around 1940. Three building phases can be identified in the front house and on the front gable. In 1870 the farm building section of the farmhouse was extended. To the west against the residential section of the farmhouse stands a HEATING SHED, connected to the farmhouse by means of a small gate. Behind it stands a BARN, located directly beside the left side (west side) of the farmhouse; this probably dates from the early 19th century in origin. The barn is currently used as a practice space.

Description FARMHOUSE with transversely-placed residential section under thatch-covered hipped roof and three-aisle farm building section under thatch-covered half-hipped roof with white weathervanes (N) and two brick chimneys. The east gable of the residential section and most of the front gable (S) are whitewashed, the western part is white-limewashed (from a vertical building joint). The front house is partly cellared and has an upper storey in its western part. The asymmetrical front gable has a grey-painted plinth; distributed over the middle section of the gable wall are four brick buttresses. In the front gable four sash windows, furnished with shutters: two in the middle of the gable and in both gable corners a smaller window. The windows in the gable corners are at a different level than the centrally placed windows. Above the left window a small four-paned window. Centrally in the roof slope a narrow cast-iron round-arched window (from circa 1850). An identical window in the roof slope above the east gable. In this gable two high-placed sash windows with shutters and a cellar window with security grille. In the west gable of the front house a sash window with shutters, a bricked-up window and a brick small gate with wooden door connecting the front house to the heating shed. Where the farm building section adjoins the front house, the west gable has been partly altered (kitchen). The side gables of the stable section built of (brown) red handmade brick are further divided by modern concrete two-light stable windows. In the rear gable (N) two double sash doors. On either side an iron round-arched window and an attached stable door. In the interior of the farmhouse the original layout has been largely preserved. The central hall gives access to the living rooms, the sleeping quarters with vaulted cellar beneath, a further upstairs room with the downstairs room (E). In the western room a marbled fireplace with tiles in the niche. In the central room a black fireplace with tile tableaux on either side (below tiled cladding). The farm building section has a central aisle with the threshing floor and livestock stalls in the side aisles. The original collar-tie roof truss structure is supported by five anchor-beam frames.

Directly beside the left side gable of the farmhouse stands a BARN on an almost square ground plan, built in red brick and provided with a thatch roof. The barn has undergone various building phases and has been adapted over time to new functions. The farmhouse and barn are connected to each other by a connecting structure built at a later phase. The 19th-century HEATING SHED is built in brick, provided with a gabled roof covered with dampened tiles, and is connected to the front house of the farmhouse by means of a brick small gate.

Valuation FARMHOUSE, BARN and HEATING SHED of general cultural, architectural-historical and urban-planning importance:

- as an example of a hall-and-parlour farmhouse with associated barn and heating shed with predominantly 19th-century appearance and a rich building history;

- because of the integrity of interior and exterior of the farmhouse;

- because of the ensemble value of farmhouse, barn and heating shed;

- because of the striking and distinctive siting in the open landscape