Boerderijcomplex

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Sturdy FARMHOUSE with cross-wing, located on the western side of Grote Kerkstraat in Aalburg, near the junction of this street with De Kroon. The short-gabled farmhouse in Vernacular-Traditional style dates in its present form to the third quarter of the nineteenth century, but is still largely eighteenth century in its core. The farmhouse can be described as typical of the western part of the river region and in particular the Land of Altena. Originally the business part had facades with wooden plank cladding. These were later, presumably in the late nineteenth century, replaced with brick. The business part was renovated around 1995 into a dwelling, after the property was divided into two residential units. To the front is a simple decorative garden with fencing and lime trees.

Description

Sturdy short-gabled farmhouse with cross-wing, with rectangular floor plan, one high storey and a gabled roof with half-hipped ends above front and back facades.

The front house has two storeys within the roof. The roof is entirely thatched, with baked ridge tiles on the ridge and a renewed brick chimney above the party wall (division of residential and business part). On the side slopes thatched roof dormers have been added since 1989, as well as some roof windows. The facades are laid in yellow brick in English bond and provided with a black plastered plinth. Windows and entrances in the residential part have one-and-a-half brick-width arches in red brick as closure. The gable ends have brick patterns.

The front facade is symmetrically arranged and has the main entrance on the central axis, provided with a frame containing a single-rood panelled door with cast-iron grille and a two-rood fanlight. On either side are two windows with frames with shutter recesses, rollers on the undersides and six-rood sash windows. The first floor contains two windows with four-rood sash windows. At the very top a loft window with likewise a four-rood sash window. The facade has wrought-iron wall anchors. The right side facade has in the residential part on the left three windows of the same type as in the front facade. In the right part there are in the plinth two small cellar lights with single-rood windows and furthermore a window with modified frame. At the far right is finally the broad rectangular former cross-wing entrance, placed under a slightly raised roof section. This entrance has a double wooden braced cross door, with in the right door wing a four-rood pane. The left side facade has at the far right a modern shop front with double glass doors, furthermore two windows with modified frames. In the left part is on the right an entrance with modified door and fanlight, furthermore a non-original window, a modern double glass door with side lights, two braced stable doors under brick round arches and two small stable windows with four-rood frames. The back facade has to the right of the central axis a frame with wooden stable door, at the far right a small modified window and on the left a small window with 4-rood frame. At the far left a modified stable window. In the top of the facade a frame with double wooden loft hatch.

The farmhouse contains internally a number of rooms with simple beam ceilings (single beam layers) with dovetail moulding. Furthermore various interior door frames with panelled doors. In the right room a black marble chimney mantel. In the right front room a bed alcove with double panelled door. The business part has four anchor beam trusses and a simple collar-tie roof.

The front garden is enclosed by a simple iron fence with straight and curved palings. In front of the front facade stand three old lime trees.

Valuation

The object is of general importance. It has cultural-historical value as part of a well-preserved farmhouse complex outside the built-up area of Aalburg and thereby referring to the former agricultural significance of the area. It has architectural-historical value as a good and reasonably well-preserved example of a medium-sized short-gabled farmhouse with cross-wing, of a regional farmhouse type characteristic of the Land of Altena in the 18th and 19th centuries, characterised by the front house with impressive, tall symmetrically arranged front facade, the gabled roof with small half-hip above the gable ends and the cross-wing layout with cross doors in one of the side facades, usually under a slightly raised roof. It has ensemble value as an essential component of a harmonious whole, namely a farmhouse complex, further consisting of a cooking or baking house and a cattle shed, various green elements and a garden with fencing. Furthermore the property is a characteristic component of the historic buildings found along Grote Kerkstraat. The object is important because of the quality of its component parts, consisting of a farmhouse with well-preserved main form, facade arrangements and detailing.