De Kruisberg

English translation

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Description

Introduction

STOLP FARMHOUSE 'De Kruisberg' from 1869, located on the western edge of a dune reclamation and on the eastern slope of the wooded Kruisberg. This stolp farmhouse of the derived West Frisian type was built on the orders of J. Spaans Jz. from Barsingerhorn and the brothers K.S. and D.Jz. Kaan, agricultural entrepreneurs at Wieringerwaard. Together they had purchased the approximately 800 hectare Heemskerkerduin in the said year, after which they began large-scale reclamation in the area around the Kruisberg. In 1872, 200 hectares were in use for arable farming of which by far the largest part was for the cultivation of potatoes. This proved unsuccessful on the poor sandy soil: already in 1878 most of the fields were waste ground again and two years later the owners sold the Heemskerkerduin. The stolp farmhouse has been internally renovated.

Description

Stolp farmhouse built on a rectangular ground plan under a hipped roof with red (front and side hipped ends) and smothered (rear hipped end) Dutch tiles. On both the front and rear hipped end stands a square in ground plan chimney of red machine-made brick. The gables are built up in red hand-moulded brick (format approximately 22 x 5 cm) in half-brick bond with struck joint, and are finished with a roof gutter on profiled cleats. In the front gable (NE) on the left and in the middle a nine-pane sash window has been installed. To the right of the centre window flanked by wall anchors is a small four-pane casement window, and to the right next to the left window is the front door, a pegged door of vertical beaded planks with a three-pane fanlight. The recessed double threshing floor door on the right is composed of pegged vertical rabatted sections. The wall parts directly on either side of the threshing floor door are more heavily executed (not half-brick but cross bond). The long side gables have a cemented plinth and are reinforced by two-brick wide pilasters that divide the gables in a regular manner into nine bays. In the fourth bay of the right side gable (NW) is a barn door of rabatted sections. The remaining eight bays of the right side gable are each provided with a semicircular cast-iron tilting window. The left side gable (SE) has two-pane wooden case windows (formerly semicircular stable windows as in the right side gable). The rear gable (SW) is divided by three pilasters and has four semicircular cast-iron tilting windows. To the right of the leftmost stable window is a barn door with a three-pane fanlight.

The internal wooden load-bearing structure consists of a double square.

Valuation

The stolp farmhouse 'De Kruisberg' is of general importance for its cultural and architectural historical value as a largely well-preserved example of a stolp farmhouse built in the context of dune reclamation from the third quarter of the nineteenth century. The farmhouse also has situational value because of its exceptional location on the boundary between a dune reclamation and a wooded dune top.