Woonhuis, Nieuwlandsedijk 79

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Residence (18th or early 19th century) located on the Nieuwlandsedijk, also provided with an intermediate section and a reed-cutter's shed, both of the latter probably from approximately the same building period but certainly from the first half of the 19th century.

Exterior

Roofs The front house has a gabled roof covered with red and (some) concealed old Dutch tiles. The intermediate section and reed-cutter's shed are situated beneath a hipped roof with concealed pantiles.

Front Façade The front façade is executed in red brick with flat corner pilasters. The high plinth is executed in hard stone. The façade has three bays with six-paned sash windows on the ground floor and four-paned sash windows on the first floor. The left bay contains the entrance with beside it a narrow three-paned sash window. The entrance is formed by a door consisting of panel material in which fragments of old woodcarving are placed, executed in a transitional style between Louis XVI and Empire. The fanlight has been reconstructed based on old images. The door is provided with a wooden frame, finished with a Doric frieze with triglyphs, dentil moulding and cornice. The gutter moulding is detailed in the same manner.

Side and rear façades The front house has - due to the positioning of the intermediate section and shed - a very narrow rear façade, white plastered and provided from bottom to top with a basement window, six-paned window, four-paned window and a small four-paned window. The elongated façade behind the front house contains various new/renewed windows and a door in historicising style. The side façade of the shed shows various blocked-up openings. The rear façade of the shed contains a double door with above it a shutter.

Interior

Level -1 (accessible via Onderstraat) From front to back the building contains a basement with board ceiling and two rooms with barrel vault and an old brick floor, old door between basement and kitchen, the kitchen with old stove and beam ceiling, a scullery or work room and the shed with beam ceiling. From the kitchen a stone staircase leads to the ground floor.

Level 0 (accessible via Nieuwlandsedijk) From front to back the building contains a hall with two three original doors, two of which lead to the historical spiral staircase respectively basement staircase and one to the living room. The floor is laid with marble gravestones. The plasterwork dates from the 1990s. The living room contains - at the site of the old stove - a non-original fireplace. Via the living room a small staircase to the back room, which contains an old wooden cupboard wall (first half 19th century). The shed has on this level a large loft and various 19th-century roof trusses.

Level 1 Via the spiral staircase one reaches a landing which gives access to various rooms, of which the large one at the front is provided with a beam ceiling. The doors on this floor are (virtually) all original.

Level 2 The spiral staircase continues to the loft of the front house, an undivided space with one 19th-century roof truss.

Valuation

The 18th or early 19th-century dyke house with reed-cutter's shed is of general importance because of:

- cultural history, because of the characteristic siting with the front house on the dyke and the shed on the lower road; the function of the reed-cutter's shed related to regional history in which the winning and processing of reed-wood, reeds and rushes formed a very important but now almost extinct trade; a certain rarity, if not uniqueness, can be attached to this phenomenon;

- architectural history, because of the very carefully executed front façade, in contrast to the rest of the building executed in relatively costly red brick and a hard-stone plinth; the typological layout of the building with a hall giving access to two staircases, the combination of living room and back room; details such as the gutter moulding; old components such as floors and beam layers;

- the combination of a residence and a utilitarian outbuilding, the whole within the original plot subdivision and incorporated in the buildings along the dyke which retain fairly good integrity in terms of size and scale;

- the rarity of well-preserved reed-cutter's sheds, certainly in combination with the residence.