Opslag, Voorstraat 20

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Late 15th-century BUILDING, BECAUSE OF the building traces preserved in the walls, mostly late 15th-century. The building, which incorporates parts of an older building from the second half of the 15th century, is characteristically located in the Voorstraat. Presumably built as a commercial building, later functions as a residence and warehouse. The Voorstraat, which arose around 1385, functioned as a collection street between the city and the city gate. Characteristic of the street is its curved course, its enclosed character, the continuous street facades, composed of adjoining individual buildings. The intensively used building has had a highly representative finish and had rich detailing.

Description

Originally the building was approximately 25 metres deep and approximately 4 metres wide, constructed in brick and two storeys high. The building was divided into a front house and a rear house, provided with a brick gabled roof with natural stone ornaments and presumably a hipped roof with half-hipped ends. The front house was provided with a simple beam layer with a few pear-bead profiles above the ground floor and a composite beam layer with double pear-bead profiles above the upper floor. On the ground floor there was a fireplace. The space on the upper floor was high and representative and provided with a large chimney, small and large pointed-arch niches and high cross windows with window seats. The rear house was provided with composite beam layers, some provided with double pear-bead consoles. There was also a fireplace in the rear house. In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries the building was altered several times. In the 17th or 18th century the height of the upper floor was lowered, with the beam layers being reused. The roof was completely lowered, the top of the front facade was demolished. The front facade was presumably provided with a cornice and the windows of the upper floor were lowered. Presumably in the 19th century the upper floor was used as storage space; the front facade and rear facade were provided with small windows and the front facade was plastered in a yellowish tint. A hoist door and two wooden windows were added to the front facade to the right of the entrance. The building and adjoining neighbouring buildings became the property of one owner during this period and were brought together, as evidenced by several passages. During the course of the 20th century the building was seriously neglected and has fallen into severe disrepair. Nevertheless, in the two-brick-thick outer facades of the building, both on the inside and outside, there are many building traces that testify to the centuries-long building history of the building. The brickwork of the facades varies in age; it consists among other things of brickwork from around 1500, the second half of the 15th century and the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among the important building traces are the segmental arches in the walls, chimneys and fireplaces, large and small decorative niches with pointed arches, natural stone details and the preserved parts of beam layers (some of which are painted; partly red with black tendrils on the underside and partly ochre yellow) and the consoles provided with (partly double) pear-beads.

Valuation

The originally late 15th-century BUILDING is of general importance BECAUSE OF the building traces preserved in the building mass, mostly late 15th-century. The building traces are of general cultural-historical importance because of:

- the age;

- the characteristic formal language and use of materials;

- the importance for science.