Boerderij(M1), Achthovenerweg 43

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Mainly nineteenth-century FARMHOUSE with an adjoining SUMMER HOUSE on the west side has an older core. The farmhouse is listed on old maps as the 'Hofstede Hoogkraan', a name it still bears. The residential part, oriented with its front facade towards the Achthovenseweg, built in an architectural style related to Neoclassicism, probably originated around 1875 as a country estate. In 1802 the name Pieter Rijnaard is connected with 'Hoogkraan'. The SUMMER HOUSE, standing transversely to the main form and connected to it, was added to the farmhouse around 1900. According to old images, the roof of the summer house was originally barrel-vaulted, thatched with reed and provided with a scalloped edge. The farmhouse had an agricultural purpose until 1950; after that it acquired a residential function. 'Hoogkraan' is a characterising component of a series of historical farm homesteads in the Achthovenerpolder along the Rhine, where a permanent settlement of eight homesteads existed long ago.

Description

The farmhouse is constructed from a rectangular plan in rendered brick, partly cellared residential section with storey under a hipped roof covered with glazed pantiles, the rear roof slope partly covered with thatch. The facades have a dark grey plint, right-angled window openings, staple anchors and projecting gutters with moulded gutter cornices above cornices with moulded edges. The four-window-unit wide front facade (southwest) facing the road is a cornice-topped facade with, left of centre above a stone step, a panelled door under moulded calf and fanlight. The door is framed by fluted pilasters standing on stone supports with capital, on which a moulded, projecting cornice rests. To the right of the door are two six-light sash windows; to the left a small-room window with four-light sash window. On the storey above are four four-light sash windows placed. The right side facade has two blind windows on the ground floor. In the left side facade are two cellar windows and both on the ground floor and on the storey above two four-light sash windows. Against the rear side stands an equally rendered brick constructed, lower-rising building section under a half, thatch-covered half-hipped roof, with in both roof slopes a roof dormer under a raised part of the roof. In the right side facade are two six-light sash windows. In the old, unrendered rear facade of this building section are still details of brick and natural stone that point to the original facade arrangement. A narrow window on the ground floor stands under a roll moulding; the upper storey window is narrowed, but still stands under a lintel with the original window width. A chimney protrudes from the facade dividing the roof foot of the half-hipped end into two. Against said facade stands the low, finely-brick constructed right side facade of the business section, which stands under a saddle roof covered with tiles du nord with half-hipped end. The facade contains right-angled windows under roll moulding. At the far left in the facade is an entrance arrangement with a door standing under fanlight with decorative window ironwork, between side lights with six-light windows. The windows in the stable section contain windows secured with anti-theft bars in heavy frames. A wooden roof dormer with a pantile-covered saddle roof and opening shutters under a three-part triangular fanlight projects from the right roof slope. Rear facade has staple anchors in the brickwork, doors under fanlight and on the attic storey two arched windows with iron frames, where originally doors standing under roll moulding were located. Western side facade has windows with glazing bars. The part of the facade adjoining the summer house is rendered. The summer house, placed at right angles to the business section on a rectangular plan, borders the water on the west side. It has white-painted rendered facades with grey-painted plint under a saddle roof covered with tiles du nord. Symmetrical front elevation (south) concerns a side facade with in the middle a panelled door standing between a stone threshold and fanlight with wrought-iron window ironwork. On either side two right-angled windows with six-light sash windows. The west-facing facade and standing at the water, virtually symmetrical gable facade is a pointed gable with accents in finely-laid brickwork, consisting of pilaster strips on which partly built-out segmental arches rest. In the left facade panel stands a glazing-bar-divided round-arched window; in the right one a door under round-arched fanlight. This door is connected with a flat iron bridge with wrought-iron balustrades, bridging the water feature to the land. The gable top contains a round window (oeil de boeuf) with cross window. Side facade at the rear (north) likewise has a corner pier of fine brick, two six-light sash windows to the right in the facade and to the left of that a large set-back section (loggia), in which a large window with six-light window and a broad French door.

Through internal alterations the original floor plan arrangement has been changed. Retained are among others a cellar with small barrel vaults, arched passages with round arches resting on wooden and/or wood-clad pilasters, a small room with six-light glass door, beam ceilings in various rooms, a corridor with marble tiles, a floor with flagstones, stone thresholds and a connecting door with etched glass to the intermediate section. Also some wall panellings and tiled wall sections have been preserved.

Valuation

The farmhouse is of general importance because of its cultural and architectural-historical value through its origin history and because it is a representative example of a farmhouse that has the character of a country house in classical style with a mainly 19th-century character and with a side section and summer house common to Rhineland. The farmhouse has architectural-historical value because of the special detailing and composition of the complex, the integrity of the exterior, parts of the interior. The farmhouse has landscape and ensemble value because of its location in the flat and open polder landscape, near the river Rhine, where it is an important element within a valuable farmstead strip. There is also ensemble value through the strong spatial, functional and partly also stylistic coherence between the constituent parts of the complex.