Boerderij(M1), Jan Steenlaan 7

English translation

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Description

Complex component 1

The FARMHOUSE is constructed in red brickwork on a rectangular floor plan under a reed-thatched gabled roof with wind-brace decoration. The original dwelling section is provided with a masonry plinth with a roll moulding, the stable section has a black-painted plinth with above it a high white-painted balustrade. Arched windows and niches in the gables under coping tiles and right-angled cellar windows under stretchers, both with blocks of yellow brickwork. The two-part cellar windows are moreover provided with attached shutters. Arched stable windows in the side elevations of the stable section with a faceted iron glazing bar pattern and attached shutters. Plastered drip mouldings beneath the windows. Wooden drip mouldings in the front house.

In the symmetrical front elevation (northwest) on the ground floor two six-light windows with between them a panel door with a fanlight featuring a tree-of-life (originally a window, identical to the other two). On the corners masonry pilasters. In the gable a composite window consisting of a four-light window with two-light side lights, beneath round-arched fanlights with a radial glazing bar pattern in the centre. Yellow brickwork blocks around the fanlights. Continuous profile mouldings with yellow brickwork above and below the windows. A bull's head and horse's head in a medallion with a yellow brickwork border above the windows on the ground floor. Above the door a hardstone commemorative stone with the building year. The wind-brace decoration in the front elevation is provided with woodcarving, as is the collar tie with ornamental brace.

In the left side elevation (northeast) of the front house a nine-light window and a blind niche. In the stable section four stable windows.

The symmetrical rear elevation (southeast) has on the ground floor a right-angled baarn door with a seven-light fanlight, flanked by right-angled stable doors with three-light fanlights. In the door posts with hardstone thresholds hang attached doors. Roll mouldings with yellow brickwork blocks above the doors. On the upper storey an arched window opening with attached hayloft doors between rose windows with iron glazing bars.

In the right side elevation (southwest) a blind niche and two windows in the front house. Four stable windows in the stable section. In this elevation no yellow brickwork decorative elements.

Of the INTERIOR the following have been preserved among others: the stall posts in the stable section, the wooden roof truss structure, floor tiles and barrel vaults in the cellar, a masonry water tank in the stable section, a storage room with wooden components, wooden walls in the front house, beamed ceilings, built-in cupboards and box beds on the upper storey.

Valuation

The farmhouse with associated interior components is of general importance because of its cultural-historical value as an example of a meadow farmhouse, whose land lay in the polder.

The farmhouse is of general importance because of its architectural-historical value as an exemplary example of the typical South Holland farmhouse and because of the rich detailing.

From an urban planning perspective, the farmhouse is of general importance thanks to its defining location on the Jan Steenstraat and the water and because of the functional and spatial coherence with the summer house.

The exterior of the farmhouse is highly intact, important components have been preserved in the interior.