Modelhoeve

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Description

Introduction

FARMHOUSE, as part of the farm complex 'Modelhoeve', from 1883, executed in an eclectic architectural style with stylistic motifs derived from the renaissance. The interior layout consisted, in addition to the dwelling house, of the working kitchen in the left wing with behind it the threshing section and on the upper storey storage for grain and hay. The transverse wing next to it was intended for young cattle, horses and as a coach house, while in the large barn under a double gabled roof the cows were kept. This four-aisle barn behind the dwelling section, which in 1963 was partly rebuilt and renewed from the existing floor area and partly with preservation of the original facade layout on the ground floor, is partly of subordinate importance for protection.

Description

Monumental farmhouse on a complex ground plan, built up from a U-shape with two storeys (or one storey with mezzanine) under separate roofs, with within the enclosed area a single-storey four-aisle stall section with lower roof ridge. The roofs are covered with coved roof tiles and have partly lead corner gutters. The facades are built up from grey brickwork (stretcher bond) with strata and segmental arches above doors and windows. The cellar windows are located in cow-eye openings covered with cast-iron grilles against the front and left gable. Yellow brickwork is decoratively applied to part of the strata, as well as in a projecting brick frieze below the gutter line of the dwelling section. The front facade of the dwelling section is further enlivened with decorative cream-coloured plasterwork for among other things ornamental bands and abutment and closing stones of relieving arches. The gutter lines are of wood. Sandstone is applied for the drip mouldings, step stones, cow-eye openings and plinth of the main volume of the dwelling section.

The windows of the dwelling section are six-pane sash windows, partly fitted with blinds. The slightly arched mezzanine windows have a vertical two-pane glazing bar division. The (business) doors, both single and double, are clamped and executed with diagonally laid laths and fitted with wrought-iron fittings.

The transversely placed dwelling section, whose roof ridge direction runs parallel to the Voorweg, consists of a cellar, ground floor and an attic storey, partly executed as a mezzanine. The elongated ground plan has a wider main volume under a hipped roof with chimneys at the corners. The flanking, narrower side volumes are covered by gabled roofs, of which the lower ridge connects to the main volume. The main volume of the symmetrically arranged front facade consists of a cornice-topped facade of five window units, whereby the corner pilasters and the richly decorated central projection are provided with plastered ornamental bands. The central projection is crowned by a brick roof dormer projecting through the gutter line with broken pediment and plastered wing sections. The entrance door in the central projection is executed as a double panelled door with carved work, with decorative ornamental wrought-iron work for the panes. The door is located in a slightly recessed, red-stuccoed frame, of which the stratum is provided with plastered abutment stones. These run as ornamental band across the central projection and the decoratively executed closing blocklets. Above it, at the height of the parapet of the attic window, a framed plastered spandrel with coloured terracotta tiles in a geometric pattern is applied. On either side of the window are small rectangular spandrels and a plastered ornamental band with in high relief the notation 'ANNO' and '1883'. On either side of the entrance section are on the ground floor two windows with above them on the storey an attic window.

The slightly recessed side volumes each have one window in the front facade and on the storey an attic window. The gable ends have on the ground floor each one window. Both gable tops are executed as a triangular broken pediment interrupted at the bottom by a double opening attic shutter with wooden frame. In the right gable end this framing is largely absent and the shutter has been replaced by a modern window.

The left two-storey side wing adjoins the left gable of the dwelling section. It is covered by a gabled roof with ventilation caps and has at the front a half-hipped end. At the rear the ridge connects to the rear wing adjoining at right angles. The long gable is interrupted in the middle by a segmental arched attic shutter under a small roof dormer.

At the location of the working kitchen there is from right to left an entrance door with two-pane fanlight and two windows. Between the pilasters slender corbels are placed, on which a wooden canopy under a lean-to roof rests, provided with a decorative shingled ornamental moulding along the lower edge, which decreases in height at the gable ends. To the left of the canopy there is still one six- and a two-pane window, as well as a door with two-pane fanlight. On the storey there are on either side of the attic shutter two attic windows placed.

The two-storey rear wing is covered by a gabled roof with the ridge direction parallel to that of the dwelling section. The stall doors and windows are largely covered by segmental arches with blocked abutment and closing stones. Both symmetrically arranged gable ends are spout gables with projecting roof abutments and a gable finish of yellow brickwork. At the left gable end the corner pilasters are continued in the gable line. In the middle of the gable a double opening shutter under a segmental arched relieving arch with (plastered) abutment and closing stones of yellow brickwork. The right gable end has on the ground floor in the middle a double door under segmental arched relieving arch of yellow brickwork with abutment and closing stones. On either side are renewed stall windows. On the storey a double opening shutter with a skewed arch fanlight, provided with vertical five-pane glazing bar division. The roller course of the skewed arch is, as is that of the bevelled top of the flanking spandrels, of yellow brickwork. The rear facade is a long gable with on the ground floor from right to left a segmental arched double business door, of which the fanlight has a geometric glazing bar division and a stall door, which is flanked on either side by two high-placed cast-iron stall windows in the facade with decorative geometric glazing bar division. On the storey there is one window and a shutter.

Interior

Dwelling and business sections have largely retained the original layout and finish, such as the wall tiling in the working kitchen, the wooden blinds and fireplaces in the dwelling section. In the business section are among other things noteworthy the trough vaults in the mill, of which, as in the threshing section, the original installation is still intact.

Valuation

The farmhouse 'Modelhoeve' is of general architectural and cultural-historical importance as a rare and early example of a farmhouse built predominantly in Eclectic style from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Because of its experimental character and as such of innovative value, the farmhouse forms an example of a particular historical agricultural development from the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

The farmhouse is of general architectural-historical importance because of the characteristic design and special detailing of main and auxiliary buildings, which is partly related to the function. The farmhouse is also of importance because of the high degree of integrity of both the interior and exterior.

The farmhouse possesses ensemble value through the mutual spatial and functional coherence between the various complex components.