Sophia's Hoeve

English translation

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Description

Introduction

T-FARMHOUSE 'Sophia's hoeve', built in 1883 with an attached SUMMER HOUSE from slightly later. The farmhouse was built as a cattle-breeding enterprise; the business section is of the voerdeeltype. The farmhouse is located on a well-preserved farmyard on the main street of Duivendrecht, a remainder of the associated meadows is still present at the rear. There is a special ensemble value with the adjacent, slightly younger 'Anthoniushoeve', which has a comparable layout but is executed more richly in material use and detailing and has a more modern construction. On the rear farmyard a HAYSTACK.

Description

T-farmhouse of the voerdeeltype, with a summer house attached to the left side. The transversely positioned front house has a gabled roof with the ridge parallel to the road. The gabled roofs of the rear section and summer house stand perpendicular to the road. The roof tiles are fitted with Oudhollandse tiles. The roof of the rear section has a layer of thatch under the tiles. On the ridge originally two wooden ventilation structures for ventilation of the stable, of which one is still present. Between farmhouse and summer house runs a passage, the front part of which is covered and drawn alongside the farmhouse. The farmhouse is built half-brick, the rear section originally presumably had wooden walls. The adjacent summer house is constructed in brick masonry in English bond. T-farmhouse and summer house stand out due to decorated wooden wind braces, those of the summer house being executed somewhat more richly. The wind braces at the rear facades are undecorated. The facades of the front house are fitted with cast-iron ornamental wall anchors. The front facade of the front house is symmetrically laid out and has four T-windows. The window frames in the front house have moulding with chamfered edges. In the front facade a natural stone dedication stone ('First stone laid by Johannes v. Klooster 916 1883'). On the right several moulded cellar window openings with wooden shutters and burglar bars. In the front roof slope a simple dormer. The side facades of the farmhouse are connected with iron tie rods to the posts of the timber frames which are located internally. The left side facade has wooden wall posts on the inside, presumably indicating originally wooden rear section facades. The right side facade has been renewed, with these wooden wall posts replaced by constructed pilasters. In the right side facade of the business section is located, incorporated in the new masonry, an old window frame at the location of the passage behind the front house. The side facades are furthermore fitted with iron stable windows. In the rendered rear facade is centrally located a broad single door characteristic of the voerdeeltype. On either side of this door stable windows and at the gable ends dung doors at the height of the gutter stable. Above the door a hay door and in the gable top an iron ventilation window. The front facade of the summer house has two six-pane windows with a broad central post. The window frames in the summer house are unmoulded. In the left side facade a slatted door (with grille work) which gives access to the summer kitchen. Here a later installed window. In this facade also high cart doors and a door to the former horse stable, while the rear facade of the summer house is closed except for a double hay door in the gable top. Internally the layout of T-farmhouse and summer house has largely remained intact, as has the construction and various fixed interior elements. The front house of the T-farmhouse comprises living room and cellar with upper room. The living room has a cupboard wall and wooden sash shutters on the inside of the windows. The front half timber bay of the rear section, which in total comprises five timber bays, is drawn in as a passage to the front house. The passage originally had an entrance door in the side facade. The doors to living room, cellar and upper room are partly fitted with coloured stained glass with farm scenes. The rear section has pine tie-beam frames with an overhang on both sides supported by braces. The timber frame plates are secured to the timber beams with iron bolts. The roof truss structure consists of pine collar-tie trusses with braces, on which purlins rest. Under the ridge additional, crossed braces. The rear section has a voerdeeltype feed passage in the central aisle and stable spaces with gutter stable in both side aisles. The wooden hay racks are largely still original. In the middle of the barn floor in the rear section the constructed oval feed and drinking trough which is connected with constructed feed gutters. The summer house has a living room on the front side with among other things a cupboard wall. In the adjoining summer kitchen a curved, red-painted water stove and a wooden chimney for the stove, tiled with white tiles and a band of green-decorated tiles. The haystack on the rear farmyard has four rods.

Valuation

Farmhouse 'Sophia's hoeve' with summer house from 1883 and associated haystack, is of general importance due to cultural-historical and architectural-historical value as well as situational value as a good example of a late nineteenth-century T-farmhouse of the voerdeeltype, which is remarkable due to the integrity in basic form, load-bearing structure and detailing and possesses various well-preserved interior elements and construction components. The cultural-historical and architectural-historical value lies particularly in the combination with the adjacent Anthoniushoeve, which is comparable but exhibits very characteristic differences in construction and detailing, which among other things result from differences in building date. Together the farmhouses make an important contribution to the knowledge of the building and development history of the Dutch farmhouse in the late nineteenth century. Besides this ensemble value there is a special situational value due to the location on the main street in Duivendrecht where the farmhouse with the farmyard in conjunction with the Anthoniushoeve forms one of the last built reminders of the area that remained predominantly agricultural into the twentieth century in the immediate vicinity of Amsterdam. This historical image is emphasized by the strong contrast with the heavily urbanized surroundings.