Arbeiderswoning(M), Eikstraat 5

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Description

Introduction

Block WORKERS' DWELLINGS, designed in 1896 by architect Jac. van Gils.

Due to the laying out of gardens around the castle De Haar, which was rebuilt from 1892 onwards on the orders of Étienne, baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar, the old village of Haarzuilens was demolished and relocated. The buildings were realised according to designs by Jos Cuypers and his colleagues J. van Straaten and Jac. van Gils. The newly designed houses were built around a central common and almost all erected in the same national rustic style.

The block of workers' dwellings contains 2x2 dwellings according to the back-to-back principle. The block is based on a sketch design from 1895. In the village two further similar blocks of workers' dwellings were erected, however with a lower roof covered with tiles. The residential block, which dates from the period before the Housing Act of 1901, is innovative as a type, partly through the way the dwellings are accessed. Due to its location a sight line is created towards the Brink.

Description

The dwelling block situated on a triangular plot closes with two corner sections directly adjoining by virtue of its angled position in relation to the Heggestraat, while the dwellings on the Eikstraat are separated from the road by a front garden. The dwellings are erected on a rectangular ground plan with recessed corners and comprise one storey under a thatched hipped roof with the ridge approximately parallel to both street sides. At the ridge ends stands a chimney. Each roof slope is interrupted by a dormer window with two pairs of pivot windows. On the short gable sides outbuildings have been placed under a single continuous roof slope.

The windows with single and double panes are provided with glazing bars. The doors are painted with patterns of chevron shapes, the shutters have an hourglass motif, all in the colours of De Haar: red and white.

The two front facades of this building block are symmetrical and identical in layout. The facades contain in the middle two two-light windows with shutters above two basement windows. On either side stands a divided door under a fanlight and a coupled window with shutters and fanlight. Both side facades contain a narrow six-pane window with shutter and fanlight. The outbuilding placed against the side facade contains in the short side facade a door and a window and in the low, gable end side several small windows. The original ground plan layout has been retained.

Valuation

The building is of general importance for its architectural-historical value as an example of a recognisable block of four coupled workers' dwellings (back-to-back) in national rustic style from 1896 by architect Jac. van Gils.

Of cultural-historical value as part of the origin history of the village which is connected to the rebuilding of the castle and the resulting relocation of the village at the end of the 19th century. Also of ensemble value and situational value due to its location in the village of Haarzuilens on both the Eikstraat and the Heggestraat, from which a sight line is to the Brink.

Cultural-historical description

The dwellings were rented to the villagers from old Haarzuilens. Heggestraat 2 was rented to Willem Strijland, Heggestraat 4 to house painter Luc Hoogstraten. In Eikstraat 5 lived bicycle maker Hannes Tienhoven, in Eikstraat 7 G.J. Verhoef and from 1901 mason Jan van Boven.