`T Tweel

English translation

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Description

Introduction

FARM 't Tweel' built according to a 1927 design by architects E. and F.J. VERSCHUYL from Hilversum in GOOISE COUNTRY HOUSE STYLE. The farm is surrounded by meadows, agricultural land and wooded plots on a former country estate, which at the time was the property of the Kremers family from Hilversum. The estate is situated south of the village of Terschuur and is accessed via the Tweelweg from the Kallenbroekerweg. After the original farm on the estate was destroyed by fire, the current building was commissioned. The parts of the building saved from the fire were incorporated into the new design. The farm has a distinctive, almost U-shaped floor plan under a continuous thatched roof, which includes various business premises such as cattle and horse stables. The main form of the farm is reminiscent of the Amsterdam School villa 't Reigersnest' in Oostvoorne by P. Vorkink and J.Ph. Wormser from 1918-1921, while the detailing of the building, for example the multi-light windows with lower shutters, aligns more closely with examples from English country house style.

The farm is still largely in its original condition, although the interior of the former cattle shed has been completely modified in its conversion to office space. The farm is now partly surrounded by a recent decorative garden layout and partly by a yard layout. The original garden layout is no longer recognisable. The remaining yard buildings are not subject to protection.

Description

FARM on a composite, more or less U-shaped floor plan consisting of various interconnected business premises dominated by a dwelling house situated at the head of the whole. The FARM consists successively of a dwelling house to which a long cattle shed adjoins at an oblique angle, at right angles to this stands a building volume containing storage space and a horse stable, and at an obtuse angle to this stands the older hall barn which contains the pig sty. The farm is one storey high plus an attic storey and is covered by a composite roof, made up of gabled roofs of various heights and above the dwelling house a kind of hipped roof. The roof is largely thatched and provided with red roof ridge finials, red guttering tiles beneath roof windows and brick chimneys. The largest part of the former pig sty is covered by a half-hipped roof with red Dutch tiles. The gables have a travertine base raised to window height and are above this laid in Flemish bond in red brick. The hall barn and the wing with horse stable are older and partly laid in cross bond. For the -mostly very wide- timber of windows, doors and plant boxes the colours yellow and black are used. The shutters for the windows of the dwelling house are painted black and provided with an hourglass motif in red on white. The asymmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE of the main house consists of three unequal building sections and is dominated by a projecting three-sided roof structure above the entrance section and a heavy chimney to its left. Against the right gable corner is a multi-light window with shutters. In the apex of the very high roof slope that closes this section is a small triangular window with a characteristic diagonal glazing bar pattern. More or less central in the facade is the entrance section, covered by a three-sided enclosed bay at the level of the upper floor under a thatched roof. The bay, clad with black-painted putlog holes wooden parts, is supported by wooden posts with braces and has a composite window frame with plant boxes running continuously along the bottom and above three double four-light windows. The windows are separated from each other by profiled wooden frame stiles. The entrance section has three coupled four-light windows with drop shutters to the right and an affixed front door to the left. The door is provided with wrought iron hinges typical of the nineteen twenties. To the left of the entrance section a single-storey rectangular extension adjoins, under a lower, overhanging gabled roof. In the facade are two four-light opening windows with shutters. Between the bay and extension is the high brick chimney. The RIGHT SIDE FACADE is arranged almost symmetrically at the level of the main house. Above the travertine base the facade widens before narrowing again. In the first storey are two large cross windows with lower shutters in the middle, arranged as two opening four-light windows with above them a twelve-light window. To the left and right in the facade is a smaller four-light window with shutter. The roof provided with a half-hipped end has an overhang. In the half-hipped end is a thatch-covered triangular roof dormer with two four-light windows flanked by two triangular three-light windows. The side facade of the cattle shed adjoining at an angle has a fairly high gabled roof in which there are some semi-circular roof windows. In the facade are stable windows. In the LEFT SIDE FACADE of the main house at the level of the extension is a large cross window as described in the right side facade. In the recessed facade section to the left of this are three windows coupled to each other and a composite window frame, in which an affixed door with multi-light sidelights. Next to this are, at the level of the cattle shed, rectangular multi-light stable windows between affixed stable doors. At the level of the wing with horse stable are affixed stable doors on the far right and left of centre and also some high-placed stable windows. The RIGHT SIDE FACADE of the hall barn has three affixed stable doors under segmental arch alternating with three arched multi-light cast-iron stable windows. The FRONT FACADE of the hall barn has double divided doors with an arched stable door on either side. Above the divided doors is the date 1846 inserted in the keystone. The REAR FACADE is cut at an angle on the right by the wing with horse stable and machinery shed. On the left the roof overhang is supported by a yellow-rendered lintel, below which the facade slopes slightly inward. Divided doors are placed to the right of centre under a segmental arch, the left divided door has a recent door opening. To the left of this door is a stable door now closed on the right, the opening of which has recently been filled with glass. Above this is a double affixed hayloft flanked by light slots. Above the hayloft is a hoist beam. Plaited work runs along the roof edge. The wing adjoining on the left is closed with a lower gabled roof, which runs higher above the hall barn. In the facade is the entrance to the hall barn on the far right under a segmental arch provided with affixed doors. To the left of this is a small six-light window. Approximately in the middle of the facade is an affixed door under a hayloft in the roof slope. The original, compact layout of the INTERIOR of the farm is maintained and consists in the residential section of two rectangular living rooms accessible from a small entrance hall in which there is also the simple staircase to the upper floor. From one of the living rooms the kitchen is accessible which is in direct connection with the scullery and via a narrow corridor with the cheese room. From this corridor it is possible to look through slit-like windows at the cattle in the rear stable. The interior contains several valuable elements such as a fitted cupboard in the kitchen, a water pump, virtually all original wooden doors and English window seats in the living rooms. In the large cellar under the dwelling house section both the brine tubs for the cheese-making and the walls are completely tiled.

Valuation

FARM built in 1927 according to a design by E. and F.J. VERSCHUYL

-Of architectural historical value as a fine and good example of a farm from the nineteen twenties of the twentieth century, in which Gooise Country House Style is employed, which found application mainly in dwelling houses. The farm stands out because of high-quality aesthetic qualities in interior and exterior such as the unusual main form for farms, the distinctive floor plan, the use of materials and the detailing such as the continuous thatched roof and the craft-like use of materials. The farm thus forms an atypical typological example within the history of farm building. The farm is of importance within the oeuvre of architects E. and F.J. Verschuyl who mainly built dwelling houses in the province of Utrecht including houses in Gooise country house style.

-Of urban planning value as a distinctive component of the historically developed landscape area in this part of Terschuur, where the farm by its appearance plays an image-determining role.

-Of cultural historical value as a farm that represents an aspect of landscape life at the beginning of the twentieth century in the Netherlands.