Woonhuis, Markt 8

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The building - as far as can be established in the year 2000 - originated around 1500 as a crosshouse (together with the neighbouring building no. 6) and was immediately or shortly thereafter provided with a rear house. The house may have had an older predecessor and the cellar may date from that earlier phase. From the phase of around 1500, the following have been preserved among other things: part of the timber frame with pear-shaped mouldings in the wall dividing the dwelling from no. 6; floor beams with pear-shaped and ogee-shaped keystone pieces in the rear house. The timber of the roof truss of the rear house has been dendrochronologically dated to 1505-1506, although the roof truss was later modified. In 1587 both buildings were divided, so that no. 8 henceforth went through life as a deep house. The roof truss of the front house, however, was only transformed in the eighteenth century from a cross roof to a perpendicular one, connecting to that of the rear house. In doing so, however, old timber was used, probably secondary processed material from the old cross roof. Also in the eighteenth century the rear and front facades were successively rebuilt. On that latter occasion the floors of the front house were made to align with those of the rear house. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the building acquired a passage on the left side and various modifications were carried out in 1938-1939 for the purposes of a shop. The front facade was also altered at that time.

Description

Main form. Roof and materials. Building in facade wall, consisting of cellar, two storeys and roof storey under a hipped roof with ridge perpendicular to the Markt. The building is constructed in brick, the roof is covered with old Dutch and crossed tiles.

Facades. The eighteenth-century front facade has three bays and is terminated with a cornice. The entrance is reached via natural stone steps. The pavement is also natural stone. The early or mid-eighteenth-century rear facade contains, among other things, two nine-paned sash windows on the storey.

Construction and interior. The construction is mainly formed by: (very) old side walls with various building traces (among other things part of the timber frame from around 1500); eighteenth-century front and rear facades; floor beams and roof trusses from the sixteenth to eighteenth century, partly later modified. The floor beams have pear-shaped and ogee-shaped keystone pieces. In the masonry of the front house traces of fireplaces have been found at cellar, ground floor and storey level. The rear house still has an eighteenth-century chimney breast, flanked by considerably older wall paintings (Renaissance). The left one depicts the Christ Child, the right one scrollwork.

Valuation

The building, which came into being in various construction phases, is of general importance because of: - building history, because of the complicated construction history from which among other things valuable floor beams, roof trusses, masonry, cellar, etc. have been preserved; - architectural history, because of special components such as pear-shaped and ogee-shaped keystone pieces, the eighteenth-century chimney breast and the wall paintings; - rarity of various construction and architectural historical elements; - coherence with the valuable buildings along the Markt in Geertruidenberg.