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Description

Complex component (1): RESIDENTIAL/SHOP BUILDING from 1880 ('House with the Stairs'), alteration of shop frontage in 1932 with rear building from 1880 but with older components, being the former brewery wing estimated to date from the 18th century.

Description: The 'House with the Stairs' is already mentioned in 1826 and consists of a broadly extended, cellared brick residential/shop building, the front facade facing Beekstraat, with three storeys; the plan has a rectangular shape. The front facade with ashlar plinth has on the right side a shop frontage consisting of two display windows and an intervening entrance portico leading to the upper dwelling and the shops; the shop frontage dates from 1932 and is tiled with fired, glazed tiles (black, blue-green, beige, red), leaded lights in the fanlights above the display windows, in the green tile zone above the display windows the inscription 'FIRMA GEZ. HENNEKELS'; the left side of the front facade is divided by a gateway and to its left two T-windows. On the storey seven T-windows, above them - as a mezzanine - seven somewhat compressed subdivided windows, the lower and upper sills are executed in Namur stone. Gutter with pear-shaped ornaments, the saddle roof laid with black improved Dutch tiles. Internally of importance are amongst others the cellar rooms for (beer) storage, fuel and wine furnished with red tiles on the floor, brick shelves, racks for beer barrels, tunnel vaults; leaded lights in the fanlight of the front door; stairs and newel post; old panel doors with original surrounds; suite of rooms; white marble fireplace mantel in front room (storey), hinges and fastenings. In the cellar still a wooden lifting device fitted with iron rings for lifting beer barrels. The gateway framed in Namur stone leads from and to the courtyard, gateway paving of basalt setts, on both sides a narrow pavement consisting of alternating black and white tiles, the pavement edging of ardennes stone; wooden gateway doors with coloured glass in iron frames; courtyard paved with basalt and field setts. The rear facade with plinth has three storeys, to the left of the gateway passage with leaded lights a cellar window and a composite window under lintel, and beside it access to the cellar; on the second and third storeys T-windows, casements and shutter opening, all irregularly distributed across the facade. The brick and partly marl business wing, at right angles to the residential/shop building, has two storeys under a saddle roof clad with tiles; the courtyard-facing facade is divided with round-arched windows, doors and a wooden double door, short side facade (rear) blind, long side facade incorporated behind; the plan has a rectangular shape. Against the courtyard-facing facade stand two old pumps, once used in the brewing process. Internally of importance are amongst others the vaulted cellars with ashlar spiral staircase, barrel vault in brick and marl; wash room with ashlar floor, corner fireplace, ceiling with hand-forged iron hooks; floor and roof truss structures with chiselled carpenters' marks.

Valuation: The residential/shop building with attached business wing is of general importance on account of: - the age; - the combination of a well-preserved residential/shop building with a well-preserved business wing; - the significance for the history of business and technology; - the importance for architectural and building history; - the significance for stylistic history, in particular the Art Deco period; - as an essential component of the complex.