Schuur(M), Dorpsstraat 181

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The distinctively designed UPPER BARN was built around 1870 against an adjacent farmhouse. In the right side gable of the barn the wall of the old farmhouse can still be clearly seen. In the first half of this century the barn was used by the local builder and architect Bas van Dam as a workshop and timber drying loft. The barn also served for storage of flood boards and storm lamps. In the lower part of the barn was a dwelling hidden in the dike. Apart from a few window frames which, preserving the original glazing bars, have been renewed, the building is externally in sound condition. The upper barn is built against the dike and lies in the old village centre of Capelle aan den IJssel.

Description

Building on a rectangular plan with basement against the dike and above it one-and-a-half storeys, built in yellow hand-moulded IJssel brick under a hipped-gabled roof with suppressed Dutch tiles. The brickwork of the façades is executed with pilasters, spare fields, stretching courses and a dog-tooth moulding. The symmetrical front façade (south) on the street side has five bays with a central double door under a basket arch and four double round-arched windows with continuous drip moulding. Windows and doors with 9-pane glazing bars and arched fanlights with diagonal bars. On the half-storey arched façade openings with brick tracery. In the central axis of the left side façade (west) two double doors with glazing bars, below with fanlight under a basket arch and above under a round arch. From the dike a sloping ramp to the lower door. Arched basement windows and on the upper floor narrow coupled six-pane windows with half-round fanlight. On either side of the attic door segmental arch-shaped façade openings with brick tracery. Rear façade (north) with stretching courses as string courses. At basement level two double doors under segmental arch, one square multi-pane window and small round-arched windows. Upper floor with five coupled six-pane windows with half-round fanlight. In the half attic storey arched façade openings with tracery as in the front façade. The right side façade (east) apart from the wall of the old farmhouse is closed with boards.

Valuation

The barn is of general importance from a cultural-historical perspective as a representative example of an upper barn from the middle of the nineteenth century. The barn is of general importance from an architectural-historical perspective for its distinctive design and typology and the characteristic yellow IJssel brick. The building is externally virtually in its original state in main form, material use and detailing. The building is of urban planning importance for its distinctive setting in the old village centre of Capelle aan den IJssel.