Woonhuis, Stationsweg 10

English translation

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Description

Introduction

SLUICE-KEEPER'S DWELLING, as part of the sluice complex, executed by commission of Waterstaat in 1891 in neo-renaissance style. The complex with double-action lock lies at the mouth of the river Danne near the Merwede Canal.

Description

The sluice-keeper's dwelling from 1891 is constructed in grey brick (in English bond above a rendered tuff-stone course) from a rectangular floor plan. The detached, partially cellared building volume consists of one storey with a saddle roof covered with suppressed pantiles. On the ridge is ornamental ironwork with a copper weather vane. On the northern roof slope is one rendered chimney. The gables are articulated by cemented and whitewashed bands and corner stones. The ventilation grilles of the cavity consist of cast-iron rosettes. The flush windows and door in the first storey are executed with arch fields with multicoloured ornamental brickwork under a round arch-shaped relieving arch with cemented blocks and keystones. The T-sash windows have natural stone drip moulds and wooden shutters. The three-axis symmetrical front elevation (south side) contains a centrally placed entrance with natural stone step, panelled door with wrought iron hinges and fastenings and fanlight. The long elevations are terminated by a frieze of projecting ornamental brickwork and rendered corbel brackets with between them a multicoloured series of cross shapes above which is a profiled drip moulding. On the south gable, to the right of the entrance, is a wooden lifebuoy holder with lifebuoy attached. The end gables (west and east elevations) are stepped gables with cemented and profiled coping slabs. In each apex gable is rendered ornamental brickwork with a natural stone segmental arch-shaped pediment as crowning. In the top is one flush window with a rooster comb and a roof window. On the western side this window has been replaced. Wrought iron ornamental wall anchors are used.

Appreciation

The property is of general importance because of its architectural-historical value as a well-preserved example of a sluice-keeper's dwelling from 1891 in Neo-Dutch Renaissance style, built by commission of the National Water Board, and because of its cultural-historical value as an expression of and reminder of the history of the canal. The dwelling has ensemble value as part of the complex and because of its prominent visual location on the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal and the spatial-functional relationship with this canal, the river Danne and the sluice. Of structural importance as an early example of a construction method with the application of a cavity wall.

Cultural-historical description

The construction of the Merwede Canal in the 1880s and 1890s was to ensure a good water connection between Amsterdam and the Merwede. The section from Amsterdam to the Lek was completed in 1891. In the period of 1931-1956 the canal was widened and relocated and received the name the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. Waterstaat built a large number of service dwellings along the Merwede Canal according to a standard type, among other things for housing the bridge and sluice keepers of the bridges over the canal and the sluices in the watercourses and minor water channels connected to this water. The service dwellings were executed to a Waterstaat design from 1888 in the style of Neo-Dutch Renaissance. The general type of service dwelling was built with associated brick barn, as a single dwelling and as mirrored double dwelling. All dwellings were constructed with a cavity wall and are early examples of this construction method. The river Danne, on which the complex is situated, originally formed part of the western arm of the Vecht, the Aa. Since the construction of the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal it forms the connection between the Vecht and the canal. Until 1975 there was a riveted bascule bridge from 1891 above the sluice, which was replaced by a wooden footbridge not included in the protection. On the opposite (western) side of the canal there was likewise a complex with a service dwelling, double sluice and bascule bridge, of which only the extensively renovated service dwelling, not included in the protection, is preserved.