Boerderij(M1), Heereweg 322

English translation

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Description

Introduction

STOLP FARMHOUSE belonging to the farm complex "Heereweg 322". The left side gable was renewed in the 20th century.

Description

A stolp farmhouse built on a rectangular ground plan beneath a thatch-covered hipped roof with the ridge line nearly perpendicular to the Heereweg and above the right side gable an outswung eaves. This so-called low wall is, like the pan edging at the bottom of the front roof slope, covered with black glazed Dutch tiles. Both in the top of the front and rear roof slope stands a square chimney of red machine-made brick. The chimney on the front roof slope has at the top two decorative bands of yellow Ijssel stone. The asymmetrical front gable (S) is built of reddish-brown machine-made triples in English bond, provided with corner pilasters, and is finished at the top by a gutter moulding on corbels. The gable has five six-pane windows (formerly sash windows with shutters): two on the left, two in the middle, and one on the right. Between both window pairs is a two-pane cellar window. The front door to the left of the right window is executed as a panel door provided with a low fanlight and two original cast-iron door grilles with floral motifs.

The right side gable (E) counting seven hopper windows is laid in handmade brick of varying colour and size: the lower half in apple-blossom with the exception of the lower section on the left which is executed in yellow brick, and the upper half in red brick (farmers' grey). The hopper windows have been reconstructed on the basis of a preserved original example.

The right half of the low rear gable (N) has a plinth of red handmade brick in English bond which, according to surviving paint traces, was formerly painted blue. Above this the gable is built of red handmade brick in Flemish bond in half-brick thickness. The younger left half of the rear gable (where the built-out extension was located) is laid in red machine-made brick in half-brick thickness. In the rear gable there is from left to right a door above which the roof is arched, two small windows, two small four-pane windows with shutter with a butt joint between them, and a strongly recessed clamped threshing door of which the right door half has a chamfered top corner.

The internal timber-frame structure consists of a single square with at the front an overhang which was later enlarged with the aid of bearing beams. The corner posts are placed on bases of red handmade brick. The corner post at the front left (SW), judging by the notches, comes from elsewhere, possibly from a ship, and has been reused here. The other corner posts have a semicircular to square cross-section. The two aforementioned chimneys both rest on a plastered rectangular flue of red machine-made brick in which a clamped bacon door (because of the slope of the front flue the bacon door is not located here as usual in the front but in the right side). The rear roof plane rests on square roof corbels. The remaining roof planes have round roof corbels. The wall between the square and the living room at the front centre is laid in yellow and red handmade brick in Ijssel format in English bond. The wall composed of broad upright parts painted blue between the square and the former cattle barn situated to the right has been reconstructed according to the existing form. Both the cattle barn and the back passage in the centre rear has an alternating beam ceiling with broad parts. The (later raised) floor of the back passage is tiled with glazed red floor tiles. In the hearth of the back passage there has been since at least the 18th century a 17th-century cast-iron fireplace back with, among other things, the Dutch lion depicted and a date. Some purple tiles in the hearth are original, the remainder date from the 20th century. The rear wall of the former threshing floor to the rear left is laid in red and yellow handmade brick in Vecht format in half-brick thickness. The living section located behind the front gable contains some original elements including simple beam ceilings, floors of broad parts (below the existing floor), an original wooden fireplace mantel with scroll corbels in the partly reconstructed living room at the front centre, and below the altered bed spaces between the living room and the room to the front left a cellar with a floor of yellow and green glazed floor tiles.

Valuation

The stolp farmhouse is of general importance as a historically-functional main component of the farm complex Heereweg 322 and as a largely well-preserved example of a North Holland stolp from the last quarter of the nineteenth century.