Woonhuis, Den Dolvert 5

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Description

Introduction.

DWELLING, front facade erected at the end of the nineteenth century in an Eclectic style. The unusually proportioned house possesses a core that may well date back to the seventeenth or eighteenth century. It is in all probability built as a residence for a notable. It is known that in the nineteenth century at least four notaries lived here. After suffering war damage, it was partly altered in 1948 whereby roof boarding was added and the tiles were also renewed. Internally the building has been very well preserved. At the rear of the building is a spacious garden; this falls outside the protection afforded by national heritage status.

At the rear there is also an extension under a gabled roof with half-hip end and an extension under a gabled roof (ca. 1970); these extensions fall outside the protection afforded by national heritage status.

Description.

Partly cellaraged building of one and two storeys on a rectangular ground plan under a mansard roof with half-hipped end, covered with tiles. The building is situated on the south-eastern side of Den Dolvert. The front facade, consisting of five bays, is rendered white; at the corners and plinth zone in block bond. Flush-closed facade openings. The windows have cross windows and a continuous sill. Window with date. Monumental entrance with cornice on fluted pilasters. Panelled door and fanlight. Door with lattice motifs, wooden gutter moulding, ornamental wall anchors. The roof has a hip with a brick chimney on the west side. The bollards placed at the corner are connected to each other by an iron ornamental railing. In the western side facade is a narrow window affording a view over the old through road from Heeswijk to Dinther. The top of the left (eastern) side facade was rebuilt after war damage. The rear of the building has two storeys. The window arrangement is still the original, although the windows have been largely altered. Internally the building has been exceptionally well preserved. A broad central corridor divides the house into two sections. The corridor floor is covered with marble tiles; the walls with cream-coloured tiles. The eastern rooms are square in layout and have austere ceilings with stucco ornaments. In the front room are still the nineteenth-century wooden window seats with shutters and also an elegantly ornamented marble fireplace. A similar fireplace is also found in the rear room, crowned with a round-arched fluted stucco moulding. The western rooms are more spacious in layout and formerly served as office space. At the rear is further the spacious kitchen which provides access to the cellar covered with a stone barrel vault. In the kitchen is found, among other things, a wooden corner cabinet ornamented with eclectic motifs.

Above are the bedrooms. Via a small staircase one gains access to the attic. The roof with collar-tie trusses is supported by three oak curved timber trusses with wooden peg connections. On the most western truss carpenters' marks III are still visible. The roof structure dates perhaps still from the eighteenth century.

Valuation.

The building is of general interest. It possesses cultural-historical values as a particular expression of a geographical and typological development; in particular the development of the dwelling for the village elite in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It possesses architectural-historical values because of the particular building-historical development evident from both interior and exterior and because of the high quality of the applied Eclectic style elements of interior and exterior. The building is of importance because of the integrity of both interior and exterior. The building is of importance because of the rarity of such well-preserved village dwellings.