Pastorie(F), Hôf 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former PARSONAGE with COACH HOUSE and GATE, designed respectively in Eclectic and Neo-Classical Style by Leeuwarden architect Jurjen Bruns and built in 1875 by contractor Klaas Rienks Sybrandy from the village itself on the site where the parsonage stood before the Reformation. The budget for demolition and new construction amounted to f 17,000,-. The house with stalling is prominently situated on a spacious plot opposite the south gable of the church. Currently in use as an office of the Agricultural Business Care, for which office function the parsonage and coach house have been converted. The Reformed church is already protected (separate national monument number 18256).

Description

FORMER PARSONAGE EXTERIOR: Large block-shaped house with a coach house on the west side, built on with a newly-appearing intermediate section. The house - approximately as wide as it is deep - has a full storey and three slightly projecting risalits built up to the roof level: on the north, south and east sides. The northern front gable and eastern side gable are five bays wide; the other gables irregular in layout. Profiled, plastered parapet, otherwise façades of greyish-brown brick. Front gable has stuccoed corner pilasters with recessed panels; on other corners plastered pilasters. Cornice with some moulding and profiled gutter; at the front gable decorative knobs under the gutter. Entrance risalit flanked by heavy octagonal stuccoed pillars with recessed panels and finials of vases with plants. The risalit on the east side is unadorned; that on the rear is flanked by pilasters which have on the ground floor and on the upper storey stuccoed recessed panels.

In the western side gable a hardstone façade stone with the texts "To this parsonage, founded under the administration of the Church Wardens: B.A. Smeding, T.H. Beekhuis and Mr J. Minnema Buma; Jan Sinninghe Damste laid the first stone on 27 April 1875" and "built by K.R. Sijbrandij, Mr Carpenter at Wirdum".

Arched closed T-windows, relieved by finials, but on the front side heavily profiled in frame and provided with cornices. In the eastern side gable six-paned windows. In the entrance risalit a porch enclosed with stuccoed eyebrow on ledges and with cornice (with head) and internally stuccoed with stuccoed double door with iron grilles and fanlight; above it framed and provided with cornice upper storey window. In the rear risalit a double garden door with glazed panels. Otherwise at the rear: on the east side a renewed but fitting large conservatory built on a location where two finials are still visible and on the west side a glazed entrance with opening doors, where, given the finials, there have also been two windows.

Truncated hipped roof with on all hips blue-glazed corrugated Frisian tiles. In the hips some new roof lights have been inserted. Corner chimneys with bands with wave mouldings and pinnacles.

On the front at the plot boundary stands a cast-iron GATE with round mouldings at the top, pineapples on the pillars. On the side of the coach house a double swing gate and in the middle in front of the entrance to the parsonage a single swing gate.

INTERIOR: For the office function the former parsonage has been converted. Also before that alterations have been made, as evidenced by the vestibule formed in the thirties or fifties behind the entrance, a glazed entrance with a door provided with simple leaded glass. The very wide central passage is further the most original space. There are 2 x 2 doors opening on to it and slightly before the middle round-arched openings to side corridors. The panelled doors with mock nails are right-angled and Neo-Classically framed with high cornice with dentil moulding. The openings have flanking pilasters on bases and list capitals, basket arches and cornices, all in ornamental stucco. The stuccoed ceiling has a fine border and three central ornaments of foliage, knobs and rosettes. Beyond the middle the original staircase opening furnished with railings and balusters; underneath the original staircase, also with baluster railings, to the cellar which is situated under the western back room.

The eastern front room is in arrangement the most original. It has a stuccoed ceiling with border and central ornament, a marble fireplace with stuccoed mantelpiece with pilasters ending in Corinthian capitals and a rich cornice, panelled door and complete window frames with window sills and internal shutters. In the other rooms on the ground floor these elements are sometimes, but without coherence, to be found.

COACH HOUSE EXTERIOR: structure on rectangular ground plan of one storey with a truncated hipped roof. Five bays wide with slightly projecting and built up to roof level central risalit. Stuccoed plinth; otherwise greyish-brown brick and flat cornice provided with decorative knobs - corniced and broken at the central part - under profiled gutter. Rounded-closed stall windows enclosed with stuccoed eyebrows with iron frames, two in the eastern and one in the western wing, plus a sham or blocked-up window in the western wing. Central part with large double stable door is stuccoed off; the construction up to the roof has a very shallow gabled roof and is also finished stuccoed with recessed central field within which a horseshoe-shaped moulding line, where presumably a hay hoist has been situated. Truncated and finished hipped roof, covered with neatly-laid corrugated Frisian tiles.

INTERIOR: The coach house which originally contained among other things two horse and two cattle stalls has been entirely converted internally.

VALUATION

The former parsonage with coach house and gate is of general historical, architectural-historical and urban planning significance

- because of the clearly legible relationship between church and parsonage with coach house which is based on a deep tradition, a relationship which elucidates the historical, social hierarchy of the village;

- because of the externally well-preserved Eclectic (parsonage) and Neo-Classical Style (coach house) of the building elements, designed by a prominent architect, and the internally especially in the passage and eastern front room rich interior design in that style, an architectural expression which expresses the will to representation;

- because of the prominent urban planning location on a spacious plot opposite the south gable of the church as the highlight of the semi-open perimeter development around the church.