Boerderij(M1), Empelsedijk 15

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

FARMHOUSE, with CATTLE SHED. The residential section was built up in 1906 in an Eclectic style and internally connected with the cattle shed. This is the only remaining part of a, probably nineteenth-century, predecessor. The roofing of the shed has been largely renewed. The farmhouse was built on commission of Mr Godschalx.

The whole is situated on a large plot with a garden layout outside the scope of national monument protection, with iron fencing at the front and a yard on the side and rear. On the yard there are still several outbuildings, all dating from around 1950. These also fall outside the scope of national monument protection. The old auxiliary buildings had to be largely demolished after suffering war damage in 1944.

Description.

Partially cellared farmhouse on a rectangular ground plan of one storey with a roof storey under a half-hipped mansard roof covered with Maas slate. The facades are constructed from machine-made brick laid in English bond. The symmetrically built front facade comprises five bays and is articulated by a cemented plinth and string courses. Windows and door are arched with a segmental arch and have brickwork decoration in the arch springers on the ground floor. The windows have T-frames and are provided with sandstone sills. The centrally located entrance has a leaf-panelled door with glass panels and cast-iron ornamental grilles in front of it. Next to the entrance is a small foundation stone.

In the roof slope at the front is a small roof dormer with pitched roof. The windows in the side facades and rear facade are largely original; only the kitchen windows have been altered.

Internally the building is divided by a central corridor which is paved with marble tiles and has wainscoting with imitation-marble painted finish. On either side of the corridor are the living rooms with interconnected rooms, a back room and a large kitchen with scullery.

The rooms on the ground floor are provided with stucco ceilings with both floral and geometric ornamentation. The original detailing is completely preserved, including wooden panel doors, sliding doors, natural stone fireplaces, window seats and shutters. Via a staircase with ornamented iron balusters the bedrooms on the roof storey are accessible. These contain no further special detailing. At the rear are the kitchen and scullery. The kitchen floor is laid with yellow and black tiles. The original stoking place with wooden frame is still preserved. Via the kitchen the cellar with barrel-vault ceiling on iron profiles is accessible. This has a floor laid with red tiles.

The cattle shed is accessible via the scullery of the residential section and stands perpendicular to it.

It is a single-storey, rectangular building with facades of brick laid in English bond under a gabled roof covered with blue improved Dutch tiles. The eastern gable end is partly rendered. The shed has lightly arched windows at the front with six-pane frames and an iron-strapped wooden door with fanlight. In the gable end are the carriage entrances. At the rear facade the render has been removed and the brickwork re-pointed and impregnated. Furthermore cast-iron arched frames and wrought-iron wall anchors have been added. The shed has three aisles in length: two cattle stalls with stone mangers and a central hand pump which separates the shed from the dwelling house and connects it with the scullery. The ceiling of the shed is supported by two rows of wooden posts on a masonry base. Internally the original panel doors are still preserved. The roof trusses, covering and tiles of the shed section were altered after the war and in 1997.

Valuation.

The farmhouse with cattle shed is of general importance. The building has cultural-historical significance as an example of the socio-economic development of agriculture in the river region and as an example of the typological development of the farmhouse with outbuildings. From an architectural-historical perspective the building is significant because of its ornamentation and the applied eclectic style motifs and because of the special coherence between exterior and interior. The farmhouse is important because of the integrity of its interior and exterior and is as such rare.