Hoeve Cecilia

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

The RESIDENTIAL HOUSE with adjoining cart shed annex scullery is situated on the east side of the drive. The core dates from 1832, but the current appearance was largely created following the execution of extension plans from 1908. On that occasion the property was among other things raised with an extra storey, embellished with various details and strikingly contrasting colours and provided with a new decorative roof, by which the residential house stylistically shows influences of the Chalet style. According to reports, after a visit to his brother in Norway, the owner had instructed his residential house to be extended in 'Norwegian' style. The interior has been partly modernised. The entrance door and various windows with stone surrounds in the south and west facades have been replaced. A fully modernised kitchen extension on the rear facade now forms the connecting piece between the residential house and the adjoining cart shed annex scullery.

Description.

The partly cellared residential house covers a rectangular footprint and consists of two storeys and a roof storey beneath a mansard roof covered with boulet tiles, cambered with overhang. The reddish-brown and smoked boulet tiles are laid in a decorative pattern. On the cambered roof slates chimneys in fair-faced brickwork with wrought-iron decorative caps and weather vanes. Overhanging roof with decorative timber, completely boarded in at the gable ends. Wind braces with fish-head motifs. Centrally in the front roof panel a Flemish gable beneath an abutting, cambered mansard roof with overhang on boarded decorative timbers and at the ridge end crowned with a pineapple finial. On either side two similar roof dormers, all with original windows fitted with fine glazing bars in the upper zone. The adjoining, considerably altered cart shed/scullery covers a rectangular footprint and consists of one storey with a roof storey beneath a roof covered with Nord tile and half-hipped ends with wind braces. In the brightly red plastered building among other things a clamped loft flap with wind braces and a mullion (west facade), a cast-iron segmental arch window with fine glazing bars (gable end) and a segmental arched clamp door (east facade).

The facades of the residential house consist of rendered ijsselsteen, on the entire ground floor brightly red painted and on the gable ends on the upper storey white. Along the length of the house runs a white painted plinth. The front and rear facades on the upper storey are laid in white calcium silicate brick and jointed with red mortar creating a decorative effect. Further enlivenment by means of banding courses and blocks in red brick.

Facade openings on the ground floor mostly beneath round and segmental arches with white painted arch fields. Windows on the upper storey beneath lintels or (roof storey) segmental arches of red brick. The numerous windows are still mainly shuttered on the north and east sides and fitted with original stone surrounds of brick and glazed profile stone. Elsewhere the fixing clamps of the removed shutters are still present. T-shaped, single and composite windows with fanlights fitted with small (four-, eight- or sixteen-pane) glazing bars. The arrangement of windows in the east facade, fitted with theft bars on the cellar lights and an overlying twelve-pane window, reveals the situation of the best room with underlying cellar on this side.

Of the partly modernised interior the following are among other things of significance: the original beam ceiling, the sliding doors between the former bedroom and living room with fine glazing bars and facet-cut glass, the staircase with a decoratively carved newel and several hearths with moulded chimney breast finishes, overhanging chimney breasts on carved supports and fitted with blue-and-white wall tiles.

Valuation.

The residential house of 'Hoeve Cecilia' with adjoining cart shed annex scullery is of general interest. The object has cultural-historical values as an expression of the socio-economic development of agriculture in the northwestern Brabant clay region and because of its significance for the typological development of residential houses of gentleman farmers. The object has architectural-historical values because of its significance for the architectural history of the building history contained in the property, of the unusually representative building style for a farmhouse residence, of the high-quality nature of the overall architectural design with a remarkable number of shuttered windows and of the then innovative use of colour and materials (bright colours, modern calcium silicate brick) in combination with refined detailing (such as the red jointing). The object together with the agricultural barn has ensemble values as a visually defining component of this historically evolved agricultural ensemble. Moreover as an essential component within the planned, U-shaped arrangement of these buildings around a spacious farmyard and further because of the functional historical-spatial relationship with the surrounding agricultural lands originally belonging to the farm and the drive lined with monumental chestnut trees. In a broader context it has ensemble values as part of the historical farmhouse complexes situated on either side of the provincial road between Made and Zevenbergen.

The object is of significance because of the well-preserved main form and various interior components in relation to the structural integrity of the agricultural surroundings. The object is of significance because of an architectural-historical and typological rarity, also in connection with the particular age of the farmhouse dating originally from 1832.