Woonhuis, Burgstraat 33

English translation

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Description

Introduction

DWELLING HOUSE circa 1560, built at the same time as the adjoining property no. 31, and on the Burgstraat fitted with a classicistic, plastered cornice-topped facade from circa 1800. The property was presumably rebuilt after 1621, and in the largely seventeenth-century facades there are various traces of later alterations, whilst some components of the structure and construction still date from the oldest building period. The property is located within the protected townscape of Gorinchem, situated on a plot at the corner of the Burgstraat and the Keizerstraat. Here it forms together with the opposite renaissance property "'t Comt al van Godt" the eastern entrance to the medieval town.

The property was restored and internally remodelled in 1998-1999. The extension at the rear is of subordinate importance for the designation. During the restoration the beam floors were supplemented with reconstructed consoles based on the model of preserved examples.

Description

Semi-detached dwelling house on rectangular ground plan, constructed in brickwork with two storeys and an attic storey with loft space under a gabled roof curved at the front, covered with red Old Dutch tiles. The property has gutters on profiled brackets. The facades are constructed in yellow, largely seventeenth-century brickwork, the front facade being plastered and the side and rear facades being unplastered during the 1998-1999 restoration. In the side and rear facades some window surrounds and relieving arches in red brick are still visible at a few facade openings. The front facade on the Burgstraat is a cornice-topped facade with regular and symmetrical facade arrangement, with three storeys decreasing in height. The facade is presumed to have been provided with plasterwork with deep false joints circa 1800. At ground level the recessed facade consists of eighteenth-century masonry in red brick with struck joint, fitted with stretcher courses above the windows. The recessed facade at the level of first storey and attic was remasoned in the late 18th century with presumed reused brick, yellow stone with here and there a reused red brick, fitted with cut and header joints. The ground-floor shop window has an entrance modified in 1947, and again during the 1998-1999 restoration, with large shop windows on either side lowered in 1947 with eighteenth-century frames. In the second storey three tall six-light sash windows, with Empire frames. For the attic storey three four-light sash windows. The front facade is terminated with a richly executed wooden cornice, circa 1800, in which double egg-and-dart mouldings and a dentil course are incorporated. The right side facade on the Keizerstraat contains masonry from the seventeenth century in yellow Ijssel stone, with a window surround and relieving arch executed in red brick at the original ball window on the ground floor. The facade contains three types of wall anchors, namely ogee-shaped, simple splays and splays with an inverted hook at the knot. The facade furthermore shows an irregular arrangement with a later side entrance with carved fanlight, a sash window on the first storey, and a large shop window at the far left which, like the windows in the front facade, was lowered in 1947. The rear facade unplastered during the 1998 restoration is characterised by the same 17th-century facade architecture in yellow Ijssel stone with red brick and the same type of wall anchors. The ground floor across the full width has disappeared through the breaking away of the facade towards extensions in the past.

Internally the property has a beam floor construction with beams placed in the side facades, with principal beams and secondary beams in the front house (south) and simple beam floors in the rear house (north). The property has an Old Dutch roof truss structure in which two building periods are recognisable (second half of 16th century and 17th century) with four oak roof trusses with carved carpenters' marks. The principal and secondary beam ceiling on the ground floor of the front house still has a number of original, finely worked beam consoles with diamond heads beneath the principal beams. The simple beam floors of the rear house are executed with simple, profiled consoles. The front house has on the first storey principal and secondary beams with mostly sawn-off consoles, and with a preserved console with diamond head. The rear house has a beam ceiling with four consoles. Traces of a large chimney with broad throat against the left wall on the first storey. The interior furthermore possesses the remains of an early seventeenth-century spiral staircase from the first storey to the attic. The spiral staircase has ears and a diminishing octagonal newel. Below this a 19th-century flight of stairs from ground floor to first storey, fitted with cast-iron balusters. Against a wall in the living room is the timber lining of the stair relocated during the restoration. This partition wall is decorated with wooden frame and rail work with scrollwork, and is presumed to date from the 19th century, possibly with reuse of older components.

Valuation

The dwelling house on the Burgstraat is of general importance because of cultural-historical, architectural-historical and building-historical value as an example of an originally sixteenth-century dwelling house, with a relatively well-preserved construction from the seventeenth century with components from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and some rare interior elements such as a spiral staircase, beam floors with keystones and a wooden partition wall decorated with carving. The property has building-historical value because of the age of the components and the good legibility of various building phases in the structure. The dwelling house has situational value because of its location on the former eastern boundary of the historic core of Gorinchem and ensemble value with the adjoining property Burchtstraat 31.