Lutine

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Wooden prefabricated dwelling 'Lutine' of the log cabin type from 1920, located on the northwest side of the Kennemerstraatweg and the edge of the villa park Blockhove. It is the first log cabin built by commission of the Building and Exploitation Company Nijenburg, established in 1918 by the noble family Van Foreest, on a part of their country estate Nijenburg. In that same year three other log cabins followed, namely Kennemerstraatweg 41, Heerenweg 2 and "Blockhove" demolished in 1944, also located on the Kennemerstraatweg. These four prefabricated dwellings designed by the German architect F. Abel were manufactured in the carpentry factory of Christoph & Unmack in Niesky/Oberlausitz in Upper Silesia and transported in parts by train to Heiloo. "German fitters accompanied the transport to the Netherlands. The construction took three to four months. The carpenter-contractor J. Rus from Heiloo carried out the actual building work". The exterior has undergone some minor changes since construction. Already in the twenties of the twentieth century the internal veranda on the left front was closed off with large windows and the roof dormer above the right side gable (NE) widened towards the rear. The roof dormer on the southwest roof slope was widened on either side in 1945. A portico was made from the small stoop against the right side gable. The interior is still largely in its original state.

Description

Log cabin built on a rectangular ground plan of one storey beneath a generously overhanging hipped roof covered with red improved Dutch tiles, whose ridge line is perpendicular to the road. The rear half of the house is cellared. The timber superstructure treated with boiled linseed oil rests on a brick foundation of approximately 0.80 metre high, built of red machine-made bricks in wall format in cross bond with snapped joint. On this foundation lies a beam with square cross-section and on this the 15.5cm wide and 7 cm thick beams from which the walls are built. The beams provided with brass and groove are half-lapped at the corners with half-timber joints. The beam ends above and below have a stepped profile. Halfway along the gables the outer walls and the perpendicular load-bearing inner walls are half-lapped. An identical profile is given to these beam ends. The outer walls are covered on the inside with asphalt paper and separated by a cavity from a thin inner wall consisting of vertical boards. On the hipped roof stand two rectangular chimneys built of red machine-made wall bricks in half-brick bond (the front one has been renewed whilst retaining the original form). The front facade (SE) has on the right an oriel resting on three corbels with bevelled sides and a threesided bitumen-covered hipped roof. This oriel is fitted with two wide casement windows above which are hopper windows and on either side a narrower casement window above which a four-light hopper window. All these windows are executed as double windows consisting of an outer window fixed with hinges to an equally hinged inner window. Below the two large horizontal windows on the left is still the breast-walling of the former veranda consisting of vertically beaded wood. The first floor has a slight overhang above which a beam profiled at the ends. The two stalk windows above are fitted with a twelve-light fanlight and sash blinds with louvers at the top. The upper part of the front facade has a slight overhang and consists of vertically beaded planks that are semi-circular and perforated at the bottom. In the upper part of the gable is a diamond-shaped four-light window. On the bargeboards of the overhanging hipped roof hang small planks for protection of the underlying beams, semi-circular and perforated at the bottom: two below, two halfway up and one at the top.

To protect the wooden outer walls as much as possible against rain, the hipped roof also projects generously above both side gables on square roof brackets profiled at the end. Above the portico against the right side gable (NE) is a balcony with slight overhang on profiled blocks (the balcony railing has been renewed in the 21st century). The balcony is accessible via a glass-panelled door in the right roof dormer. To the right of this door are two casement windows with six-light fanlight, and next to that, in the overhanging right part of the roof dormer, two stalk windows. Below these are set high in the right half of the gable two small casement windows with shutter (behind the right is the larder, behind the left the water closet) and in the foundation two cellar windows: on the right a stalk window, on the left a casement window. The front door in the southeast wall of the portico, accessible via a brick stair with wooden handrail, was originally in the side gable, between the portico and the hall. The left side gable (SW) has in the left half two coupled casement windows with six-light fanlights and sash blinds and at the bottom two hinged cellar windows. The right half of the gable has a stalk window with twelve-light fanlight and sash blinds. The walls of the roof dormer in the middle above are, like the other outer walls, composed of beams which are half-lapped at the corner. The roof dormer is fitted with coupled casement windows with six-light fanlight: three in the middle and two in the extensions on either side. On the lean-to roof of the roof dormer lie the same tiles as on the hipped roof. Against the right half of the rear gable (NW) above a rectangular outbuild of the brick foundation is a veranda beneath a lean-to roof carried by four square posts with profiled consoles at the top, covered with red improved Dutch tiles. The veranda is accessible from the living room via a panelled door with louvers at the top in line with the (renewed) external stair in front of the veranda. Behind this door is an inner door with glass panels. To the right of the door is a stalk window with twelve-light fanlight and a sash blind. The veranda has a breast-walling of vertically beaded planks (this has been slightly lowered by the current owner on the southwest and northwest sides to gain a better view of the garden from the room). To the left of the veranda a brick stair leads at right angles to the gable to the recessed cellar door of vertically beaded boards. Above this door is the kitchen window consisting of two coupled casement windows with six-light fanlights (hopper windows). The kitchen door to the left of this was renewed around 1960 as was the stair in front of it. The latter was originally of wood. Above the ground floor the rear gable is identical to the front gable, except that the two upper windows are further apart.

The interior still has the original layout with a central hall in which a staircase with turned balusters. The load-bearing walls of the rectangular vestibule and the landing above it are, like the outer walls, built of stacked beams. The hall has a flat ceiling of beaded boards. From the hall and landing, panelled doors provide access to the surrounding rooms. The walls of the living rooms consist of vertically beaded boards of pine and oregon pine beneath an omni-directional moulding with stepped profile at eye height, above it wallpaper. In the "Herrenzimmer" on the right front, the pine walls were replaced midway through the 1930s with oregon pine whilst retaining the original form. On the left in the southwest wall of this room is a stalk window with twelve-light fanlight overlooking the closed off internal veranda, on the right a simple corner fireplace. The original ceilings in this room and the living room are composed of imitation beams (planks) with boards between them. The living room is subdivided into two rooms en suite originally separated by concertina doors (now in the loft). Between the front room and the closed off balcony is a hinged door with louvers next to which on the right (SW) is a new fixed window in front of which is also a sash blind fitted with louvers. In all four corners of the living room is a fixed cupboard with a double panelled door both above and below. On the existing floors of the ground floor and first floor a new (parquet) floor was laid in the 1950s. Against the original walls and ceilings of the rooms on the first floor, boards were applied in the 21st century to prevent draughts. The loft has a enclosed rafter roof whose square rafters rest on a ridge beam supported by two collar ties. The cellar under the front half of the building is accessible from the hall via a wooden external stair beneath the staircase to the first floor. The cellar floor is of concrete, the walls are plastered, and the flat ceiling consists of beaded planks. In the cellar, the original wooden flower boxes are stored in winter, which are hung below the windows in spring.

Valuation

The wooden prefabricated dwelling 'Lutine' of the log cabin type is of general interest for its cultural and architectural historical value as a well-preserved example of a log cabin supplied as a prefabricated dwelling from the interwar period. The residential building has ensemble value as part of a series of log cabins supplied as prefabricated dwellings on the north and south side of the Heiloo Woods.