Woonhuizen

English translation

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Description

Introduction

This row of four simple DWELLINGS was built in 1888 by miller and flour manufacturer G.J.L. van Stekelenburg. The dwellings are situated beside Van Stekelenburg's shop-dwelling. Around 1970 and again around 1980, part of the houses were renovated, whereby the arrangement of ground floor and first floor was altered. Number 20 was provided with a rear and side extension after 1980.

Description

The single-storey block has a rectangular floor plan and is covered by a gabled roof with old Dutch tiles. The hand-moulded brick front facade with wrought-iron bondstones is provided with a low hardstone plinth and wrought-iron wall anchors and is crowned by a brick herringbone-pattern frieze that is rendered and whitewashed. The side and rear facades are also built of hand-moulded brick.

Each dwelling consists of two window bays and is provided with an attached door with divided fanlight. To the right of each door one six-pane sash window is installed. The arrangement of the window of number 18 is still original. However, all houses still have the original joinery with mortise-and-tenon connections. In the facade of No. 14 a hardstone commemorative stone is installed, now painted, with the text "G.J.L. van S'burg 15-3-1888". The four dwellings have, beside the front door, late nineteenth-century painted house numbers. It is striking that the houses are two-storey on the rear side, while the front facade is single-storey: the houses are situated against the raised Landpoortstraat, which is traced over the lower former fortification works. The rear facade of numbers 14-16 was painted around 1994; those of 18-20 are in the original, unpainted state. The kitchen windows and six-pane sash windows all have a renewed arrangement, but in many cases are still provided with the old joinery. The dwellings Landpoortstraat 14-16-18-20 have for some years had a deep, low-lying rear garden. This situation is not original: until around 1975 a corridor approximately 1 metre wide was arranged behind the houses from north to south, separated by a wall from the adjoining private gardens. The interior of the houses still partially retains the old arrangement; on the ground floor the old continuous corridor has in all cases been removed, as has the wall between front and back room, but the original wooden beam ceilings arranged lengthwise are still present. The ground floor is separated from the basement by brick barrel vaults on iron beams and a smaller wooden floor. The old partition wall between the guttering gutter and coal and potato cellar (on the street side) is still present in all cases.

Valuation

The four dwellings under one roof are of general importance. The ensemble has cultural-historical importance as a particular expression of socio-economic development, namely the establishment of workers' dwellings within the existing urban fabric, and is also of importance as an example of the typological development of the small workers' dwelling. The object is of architectural-historical importance through its sober style and detailing. It is important on account of the architectural integrity of its exterior. It has ensemble value on account of its coherence with the historic structure and the protected monuments in the surrounding area. As an example of simple workers' dwellings it is relatively rare.