Woonhuis, Meijgraaf 4

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

Located west of the village centre near the junction of the Meijgraaf and the Bunderstraat is a DWELLING HOUSE with attached HOOP-MAKING WORKSHOP (now workshop) with yard, ornamental planting and steeping trough. The object is oriented with its ridge parallel to the Meijgraaf, in front of the current building line of the street. The front facade of this entirely detached building directly adjoins the pavement; around the remaining facades a small yard, partly with ornamental planting including shrubs and rhododendron.

It was built around 1880 in a Craft-traditional building style.

The hoop-making industry belongs to the characteristic craft activities of Schijndel in the nineteenth century. Due to the wood-rich surroundings of the time (willow-wood was an important source of income for Schijndel) and an improvement in transport facilities for the wood through the construction of the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal, the hoop-making business could easily develop. The hoops were sold to coopers who made herring and especially butter barrels from them, mostly on commission for nearby butter factories.

With the arrival of iron bands and later plastic barrels, the craft hoop-making business gradually disappeared. The hoop (Brabant dialect: 'rip, reep') consisted of willow-wood which was usually first stripped of its bark with a scraping iron ('blekken'), subsequently soaked, bent, woven and dried.

The shutters have been removed from the front facade, in the living room the chimney has been blocked up and the bed alcove has been removed. The small shed at the rear of the yard falls outside the protected area.

Description.

The partly cellared brick building occupies a rectangular floor plan and comprises one storey with an attic storey under a gabled roof covered with muted old-Dutch tiles. The building is completely overgrown with ivy. A chimney stands on the ridge.

The building, constructed in handmade brick, is mostly laid in Flemish bond; the half-brick wall of the right gable (hoop-making workshop) is predominantly laid in half-brick bond. Along the base of the facades a continuous cemented plinth, further straight stone anchors and in the gables wickerwork.

The front facade comprises five bays; the left three contain the dwelling house, the right two the hoop-making workshop. Along the top of the facade a sawtooth frieze and a block frieze. Two exterior doors (second and fourth bay from the left) with cast-iron door handles, lightly moulded calf and divided fanlight under a roll moulding. Simplified six-light sash windows (shutters removed, thumbpieces still present) below and on a roll moulding. Rear facade with only a sawtooth frieze, two clamp doors, a cross window with brick sill (first bay), a four-light sash window with cemented brick sill (third bay) and a cellar ventilation grate provided with theft bars (fifth bay). Adjacent to the business section is a square cemented brick steeping trough with drainage pit.

Left side facade with four-light sash window provided with (remains of) shutters of the store room and attic window centred in the gable. Right side facade with two-light window on the ground floor and wooden attached shutter on the attic storey. The front door of the dwelling house provides access to the living room ('herd'). To the left of this a bedroom, behind the living room at the rear the kitchen ('geut') from which two doors provide access to a cellar and a store room. The front door of the hoop-making workshop provides access to one (possibly simplified) large work space. Attic space used among other things for the storage of hoops which during the day stood on the yard to dry.

Of the interior the following are noteworthy: original beam ceiling (boarded over in the living room); various (partly simplified) panelled doors with oval wooden door handles and an exterior door; kitchen with water pump, sink and black tiles (elsewhere secondary - but still pre-war - red/yellow tiles); bedroom with an open bed alcove and one closed off by shutters and in the work space a large chimney with chimney beam.

Valuation.

The dwelling house with attached hoop-making workshop, yard, ornamental planting and steeping trough is of general importance.

The object has cultural-historical values as a notable expression of the rise of the craft hoop-making industry in the nineteenth century. Furthermore on account of its importance for the typological development of home-based industry, in particular of hoop-making workshops, in this case notably exemplified by the steeping trough at the rear and the attic hatch.

The object has ensemble values. Together with the yard, ornamental planting and steeping trough, the dwelling house with attached hoop-making workshop forms a valuable ensemble which, on account of the siting of the house (in front of the current building line), gives a characteristic historical impression of the earliest building development on the Meijgraaf.

The object has been preserved intact and remains recognizable in its main form and parts of its interior and has, as a representative of a rarely surviving type, typological and functional rarity value.