Teutenhuis

English translation

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Description

Introduction

LONG-GABLE FARMHOUSE, known in the literature as Teutenhuis and the inn De Ster (until 1892). It was built by a travelling merchant who later, having become prosperous, settled in his native place. The building dates from 1722, with a business section from 1893, which after a fire in 1945 was largely renewed. The whole is constructed in a craftsman-traditional building style. Parallel behind the house a detached small barn containing an unprotected horse stall, small livestock stall, formerly a bakehouse and hay loft, built around 1900 in Belgian smooth orange brick. On the farmyard a vegetable and market garden with some fruit trees, elder and beech hedge. The building lies behind the Reformed church from 1812/1857 and has been the property of the Reformed Society for Prosperity since 1893.

Description

The single-storey residential section on a rectangular plan is constructed above a plastered plinth of dark red brick (21 x 10 x 5 cm) in English bond with glazed headers. The gabled roof between shouldered spout gables is covered on the rear side with orange-red Dutch roof tiles, but on the front side with pantiles. At the location of the old flue, centrally in the house, a brick chimney on the ridge. A second, later brick chimney on the ridge against the right side wall. The six-bay front facade has on either side of the solid front door with nine-paned fanlight two windows with 20-paned sash windows and thumbs. On the right, above a barred cellar window with cross glazing bars is the six-paned sash window of the upstairs chamber. Door and windows, all equally high, are provided at the top with stone lintels. The gable termination consists of a decorative stepped brick frieze. Staple anchors with wrought scrollwork. The shouldered spout gable on the left, with quatrefoil decoration and shoulders, is entirely blind, except for two small windows with cross-barred casement windows on the attic storey. Building traces indicate that these windows were originally extended downwards. Above the windows the year "1722" is formed in dark glazed brick. On the right on the ground floor a filled secondary door opening is outlined. On the left there is a later small extension with door and small entrance hall under a lean-to roof, which indicates later use as a double dwelling. Staple anchors with wrought scrollwork. The rear facade of the residential section lacks the brick frieze and shows a large variety of door and window openings. Originally there is in any case a 20-paned sash window at the far left and next to it a renewed door with six-paned fanlight. Further one finds a solid door with two-part fanlight and on either side a casement window with cross-bar and two-part folding window as fanlight, circa 1950. At the far right at different heights two six-paned sash windows with stone window sills. Staple anchors. The old interior of the residential section has been preserved to a high degree intact and recognisable. The old layout has also been largely maintained. Heavy ceiling beams with simply moulded corbels on which fitted joists form the ceiling of the entire house. A small hallway behind the front door has multicoloured floor tiles which together form star-shaped motifs, circa 1893. Left and right large rooms, across behind them a corridor with old wooden staircase to the attic. In the room on the right the converted remains of the original fireplace. Only the painted moulded mantelbeam has been preserved. Delftware tiles have been removed. Immediately to the right old doors to the barrel-vaulted cellar covered with orange tiles and the upstairs chamber located above it. Particularly remarkable here is the framing of the bed alcove with carved Renaissance ornamental work in the form of scrolls, strapwork and diamond heads (first half of the 17th century). In the rooms left of the front door stuccoed barrel vaults (plasterer's work). Secondary are several partition walls introduced here, including one of wooden panels, intended to enable this part of the house, presumably the former taproom, to be used as a separate dwelling. For this purpose exits to the side wall have also been made. Behind the transverse corridor there was before circa 1950 against the rear wall a now filled cellar with above it a second upstairs chamber. Virtually all casements and doors in the dwelling, including those with panels, are old and painted white. Partly original hinges and latches. The old wooden staircase with simply moulded newel post, painted dark brown, leads to the attic with a very complete roof truss structure, largely made from sawn oak with wooden mortise and tenon joints. The tie beams of the four roof couples with hacked carpenters' marks each carry a centre post on which the ridge beam rests. The tie beams are connected to the slanting posts by means of curved brackets. The tie beams, laid on the ends of the tie beam, are braced in the lengthwise direction to the posts. On the projecting ends of the collar ties, connected in the middle with the centre posts, rest likewise oak beams which in turn are braced to the oak roof members standing on the tie beam. Longitudinal bracing is also obtained because the ridge beam is braced to the centre posts. The battens and board strips are of sawn softwood, circa 1950. The roof tiles are laid on straw underneath.

The business section, right in the extension attached to the residential section, on a rectangular plan with gabled roof and pointed gable dates from 1893. Previously the residential section was – at least partly – detached, as evidenced by the quatrefoil decoration and a circular opening with rollmoulding in the right gable top. Although large parts of the business section with transverse section, cowshed and hay loft after 1945 were renewed, the front facade with brick frieze, two double arched double doors, of which the left one is filled, eight cast-iron ornamental anchors and in the interior the heavy sawn oak ceiling beams supporting the hay loft still remind of the original barn. The rear and side walls, together with the entire craftsman-constructed roof truss with six pine triangular trusses with sprocket and beams with wind braces, were entirely renewed after the 1945 fire. As were the two solid doors with on either side a six-part arched concrete window in the front facade. Side wall with three straightedged six-part concrete windows. Rear wall with three solid doors, of which one with two-part fanlight, and four arched six-part concrete windows. The roof is, above a brick frieze, covered with orange-red pantiles.

Valuation

The long-gable farmhouse, former inn and the Teutenhuis from 1722 is of general importance. The building has great cultural-historical value as a well-preserved dwelling house of a prosperous travelling merchant and an early example of an inn. The Teutenhuis is characteristic of the Kempen. It is also an expression of a socio-economic development, namely through the recognisable evolution from an inn to a long-gable farmhouse. Moreover, the house plays a role in the history of Protestantism in North Brabant. The building has architectural-historical value because of the harmonious proportions in combination with the carefully executed details and the craftsman-traditional use of materials. The building is of importance because of the great coherence of the exterior and the largely intact preserved interior. The building has ensemble value in combination with farmyard and barn through its location directly behind the Protestant church (national monument), to which it belongs in ownership, and as the oldest residential section component of the historic village centre. The building represents particular importance through the great architectural integrity of exterior and interior. Moreover, the building is of importance because of the architectural-historical rarity of a bed alcove frame in the style of the Renaissance.