Boerderij(M1), Waterstraat 4

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

FARM, built in 1910 in a building style with elements of Art Nouveau and Neo-Renaissance. The whole consists of a dwelling house and an attached barn and stable, surrounded by a garden.

Description.

Single-storey brick dwelling house on a rectangular plan under a flat roof with roof tiles. The roof is covered with artificial slate and provided with a gutter moulding on corbels. Below this square stone blocks with projecting half spheres above a cordon moulding. The speckle courses are plastered. In front of the house a garden gate in Art Nouveau style.

The front gable is five bays wide and provided with a natural stone plinth and has corner pilasters and a central risalit with a door in a porch with ashlar steps. Above it a superstructure with balcony railing crowned by a curved pediment. Balcony railing and grilles in the door are executed with Art Nouveau design. On either side of the door are two arched windows, in the roof plane roof dormers with volutes and curved pediment crowned by a finial. The windows are placed under segmental arches with springer and closing stones on a continuous moulding, below it a decorative band, and are provided with roller shutters (partially plastic in original guides and shutter boxes). The left side gable has narrow windows under segmental arches.

In the rear gable sliding doors under an iron lintel with roller shutters. The arrangement and elements from the fittings of the building period have been preserved. To the left of the central passage lies a suite of rooms with sliding doors, marble fireplaces and stucco ceilings, in the front room polychrome. To the right of the passage lie rooms, at the back of the passage slightly raised and accessible by a small flight of steps. Part is undercellared. The passage itself has a terrazzo floor with mosaic and tiled dado with flower border, panel doors.

Via the undercellared kitchen with beam ceiling the extension under hipped roof is accessible. In it a side entrance and passage to the stable. This cattle and horse stable is still in original condition and partly covered with trough vaults and wooden beams, but no longer in use as such. Against the rear gable, in line with the right side gable, an extension connects the house to the barn. This lies at right angles to the extension and has a rectangular plan under a gabled roof, covered with artificial slate, parallel to the street. In front of it lies a paved surface with stones. The barn has a plastered plinth all round. In the long rear gable arched doors under segmental arches of black brick and some new rectangular doors. The end gable is provided with a door under a basket arch, nine-paned stable windows with metal frames, small louvre windows above and clamped doors at the ends of the gable.

Valuation.

The property with gate and paving is of general importance. It has cultural-historical value as a representative of socio-economic development and as a representative of the typological development of the farm in southwest Brabant. The property is of architectural-historical importance because of the particular use of materials and ornaments and represents the way in which Eclectic forms migrated from the city to the countryside and were applied there by the local elite, in this case a wealthy farmer. The whole has been preserved intact and shows the contrast between a richly detailed residential section and a sober business section.