La Trappe

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The FARMHOUSE La Trappe, located on the western side of Riet, is a reclamation farmhouse, founded by the Trappist fathers in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Peel reclamations east of Deurne and Walsberg. The farmhouse was built in 1878 as an investment, but an earlier farmhouse already stood at this location, also exploited by the monks based in Deurne, who were making their comeback in the Netherlands at precisely this time.

Description

The farmhouse has a rectangular ground plan, comprises one storey and is covered by a half-hipped roof with old Dutch tiles. The tall-built facades are laid in handmade brickwork and are finished with a dentil moulding. The wooden framework still present is anchored to the brickwork by means of wrought-iron wall anchors. Windows and doors still largely have their original layout. In the western gable wall to the right of a cellar window with an overlying room window a six-pane sash window has been inserted. On the roof storey two casement windows with small glazing bars. In the side facade a bolted door, flanked by six-pane sash windows with shutters; a bolted door with divided fanlight; an eight-pane wooden stable window with overlying shutter to the hay loft; an arched bolted carriage gateway and a second likewise gateway, flanked by two eight-pane wooden stable windows. The facade is finished on the eastern side by a bolted door. The layout of the dwelling house is still largely original. It is particularly noteworthy that not only the dwelling house, but also the business part is partially cellared. This may originally have been a fruit cellar, but it is also possible that it is a former liquid manure cellar. The farmhouse has a farmyard on which four old lime trees stand and is situated among several old standard apple orchards.

Valuation

The farmhouse is of general significance. The building has cultural-historical value as an example of the socio-economic development of agriculture in the reclamation area of the Peel, particularly because of the involvement of the Trappists, who had been active in the Netherlands again for only a short time, and as an example of the typological development of the long-gable farmhouse.

Architecturally the building is of significance because of its austere ornamentation and traditional regional forms. The farmhouse is important because of the intactness of its exterior and interior.