Gelder Esch

English translation

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Description

Description component A T-FARMHOUSE on a rectangular ground plan, consisting of a blocky front house counting two storeys and an attic storey, under an apflat hipped roof covered with smothered old Dutch tiles. The building has a rear house with a central longitudinal section under a gabled roof, covered with smothered old Dutch tiles. The adjoining stable space on the right, set far back, with its own rear house is one storey and an attic storey high under a gabled roof covered with smothered old Dutch tiles. The facades of the farmhouse and the stable are built in red brick in English bond and have a plastered plinth. In the facades are several wrought-iron wall anchors. The facades of the front house are terminated by a corniced brick gutter on corbels. On the right facade corner is an old wrought-iron lantern. The symmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE of the front house has five bays between mortared corner pilasters and has a slightly projecting central section in which on the first storey is a front door, surrounded by a wooden, moulded pilaster frame. The wooden panelled door has an oval sight window and a two-light fanlight. The frame is provided with casements, four-foil motifs and is terminated by a main pediment with the name 'Gelder Esch' incorporated in it. On the storey above is a tripartite window with two-light fanlight, which is emphasised by a wooden moulded frame, terminated by a main pediment with arch frieze and cornice. In the front section is a roof dormer with mortared side walls under an abutting gabled roof, covered with smothered old Dutch tiles. The roof dormer is provided with a pediment and has a tripartite window with a round-arched glazing bar division. On either side of the central projection are windows under segmental arches and with grey sills. On the first storey these are four four-light sash windows (2x(3+1)) and on the storey above four tripartite windows with single-light fanlights. The FRONT FACADE of the adjoining stable space has on either side of the centrally placed clamp-fastened door with two-light fanlight a six-light sash window (2x(2+1)). For the attic there are three horizontal two-light windows. All windows have a grey sill at the bottom and are terminated at the top by a segmental arch. The pointed gable has boarding painted in green above a mortared dentil course. The RIGHT SIDE FACADE of the front house has between mortared corner pilasters one window bay in which sash windows are arranged one above the other as described in the front facade. In the rear house on the left is a four-light sash window (2x(3+1)) and on the right a higher placed four-light upper-chamber window (2x(1+1)) above a small four-light cellar window. All windows have a segmental arch at the top. Entirely to the right in the facade is a small cast-iron stable window. In the right side facade of the adjoining stable space are two white-painted clamp-fastened stable doors under basket arches. The basket arches are provided with plastered springer and keystone. The right stable door is flanked by two non-original stable windows. To the left of the left stable door is an original semicircular cast-iron stable window. The LEFT SIDE FACADE is at the level of the front house identical to the right side facade. In the right corner pilaster halfway up a facade stone is placed with between two family coats of arms the date 1863 and below the names: A.G. Tenckinck and J.B. Roerdinck. In the rear house on the right are three large four-light sash windows with white-painted shutters, a low white-painted clamp-fastened door and then five bays with square multi-light cast-iron stable windows (tumble) with above them round-arched closed cast-iron stable windows. The REAR FACADE consists of the two rear facades of farmhouse and adjoining stable space provided with boarded gables. The right facade has deeply recessed under-doors ('underschoer') under basket arch flanked by stable doors under basket arches. Above the half-door are three basket-arch shaped blind openings. The grey-painted gable boarding is above a mortared mouse-tooth course, which runs beneath the eave. The keystones and springers of the basket arches are grey-plastered, the clamp-fastened half-doors and stable doors are white-painted. The left facade part has gable boarding and mouse-tooth frieze as described on the right. Below this is a grey-painted clamp-fastened loading shutter, under a basket arch with grey-plastered arch stones. On the first storey are two six-light stable windows with cast-iron glazing bar division.

Valuation

FARMHOUSE (complex component A) built around 1860 with adjoining stable space

-Of architectural-historical importance as a well-preserved and good example of a nineteenth-century scholten farmhouse with an imposing blocky front house. The farmhouse stands out because of this well-preserved main form and the special detailing which includes among other things neoclassical ornamental elements in wood around doors and windows.

-Of urban planning value as the main component of the Gelder Esch farmhouse complex, in which the farmhouse, partly through its imposing front house, plays a defining visual role.

-Of cultural-historical value as part of the Gelder Esch farmhouse complex. The farmhouse reflects the work and domestic culture of a nineteenth-century scholten farmer.