Het zwarte koetje

English translation

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Description

Introduction

On a spacious plot on the east side of the Bovenkerkerweg situated FARMHOUSE from 1879 named "het Zwarte Koetje". According to the foundation stone in the front facade, the farmhouse was rebuilt in that year on the instructions of Miss L.J. Veltman. The South Holland stable in this large farmhouse provided space for the considerable number of 60 cows for that time. From the military map of 1849 it appears that the predecessor had a comparable ground plan and bore the same name. The rear facade was rebuilt in altered form (somewhat lower and with altered doors) in the late 1970s of the 20th century. Originally, both on the right in this facade and halfway along the left side facade there was a clamped double threshing floor door (now sliding doors with fanlights). The gutters above the rear and side facades were executed as cast iron cornice gutters.

Description

Farmhouse built on a rectangular ground plan (19 x 39 m) beneath a half-hipped roof, the half-hip over the front facade, the lower continuous rear roof and the front part of the left side roof covered with smoored Dutch tiles. The front part of the right side roof has a covering of black glazed Frisian ridge tiles. For the rest, both side roofs are covered with red Dutch tiles. Both in the half-hip and the rear roof there is a louvre board. On the ridge stands halfway back and at the rear a wooden ventilation cap. The external facades are constructed in reddish-brown hand-moulded brick waal format in cross bond (the mortar joints have been completely renewed). The front facade (W) has a symmetrical layout with on either side of the front door three T-windows. The secondarily installed front door (from a building on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam) has a fanlight and is accessed via a hard stone staircase of five steps. Below the outer windows and the windows directly beside the front door is a cellar window fitted with a three-pane frame with iron bars. Bottom left is a foundation stone set in with floral corner motifs and the inscription "REBUILT IN THE YEAR 1879/ BY MISS: L.J. VELTMAN/ THE FIRST STONE LAID/ BY J.A. VAN DER KLEIJ/ AGE 8 YEARS ON 23 AUGUST". The first floor has three T-windows (directly above the front door and the two flanking ground floor windows). The ground floor and first floor windows, as well as the fanlight above the door, are relieved by shallow segmental arches of yellow and red machine-made brick. The four cellar windows have similar relieving arches, but executed as a course. Below the middle first floor window is a facade stone, presumably from the predecessor of the current farmhouse, on which a black-painted cow is depicted. The first floor is finished with a cornice gutter, below which is cantilevered brickwork. The angled facade surfaces on either side are covered with a roll layer and (at the bottom) a hard stone coping stone. Below these angled facade edges and at the height of the ground floor and first floor, there are wall anchors.

The right side facade (S) has ten multi-pane cast iron round-arch windows, the middle pane of which is hinged inward (the rendered water outlet sills have been replaced with concrete ones) and has bottom left a cellar window as described above (the T-window above it was installed in the 20th century after removal of the bed recess behind it; the door and sash window to the right of this date from the 20th century). At the top of the facade are wall anchors. The yellow bricks that make up the flooring for the left half of this facade originally lay in the threshing floor. The left half of the left side facade (N) is provided with three cast iron round-arch windows as in the right side facade, but here still with rendered water outlet sills (the wall anchors at the top of this facade half were installed later). Bottom right is a cellar window as described above (the remaining windows and doors in this facade are not original). The rear facade (O) is, like the front facade, built higher than the side facades and top left and right provided with a hard stone coping stone. Inside, the farmhouse is still partially in its original state. The wooden load-bearing structure consists of six collar tie trusses on which a principal rafter roof rests. The tiles are undershot with reed. On the south side, the collar ties project outside the posts (so that the posts could be placed to the left of the central passage of the cattle stall instead of in the middle of this passage). The semi-basement residential section situated behind the front facade still has partly the original layout with among other things a simple central passage and on either side a room accessible via a panel door with wide floorboards and venetian blinds for the windows (to the right of the passage there were two rooms which have been combined). The underlying rectangular cellar extends over the full width of the farmhouse and is divided halfway by a cross wall with panel door into two mirror-image spaces. Both are accessible via a straight staircase and have a floor of smoored tiles, walls which are lined to two-thirds height with a waterproofing layer of brown clinker bricks, and a ceiling of wooden beams between which are plastered barrel vaults and below which an underslung beam supported by a post. On the first floor are two bedrooms partitioned off front centre with wide sections. The north wall of the large northern bedroom is executed as a bed recess wall with three double mirror-clamped doors. In the room to the right behind the relatively shallow residential section stood a churn mill driven by a pony. The rear business section is divided lengthwise by a (renewed) wooden wall along the longitudinal axis of the farmhouse into two parts, with to the right of it the former double South Holland stable, the (renewed) loft floor of which is supported by two rows of posts (the inner row are the southern collar tie posts). Below the current concrete floor are said to still lie the grey tiles of the central passage.

Valuation

The farmhouse is of general cultural-historical, architectural-historical and typological importance as a largely well-preserved and by its size rare farmhouse from the last quarter of the 19th century. Furthermore, the farmhouse has situational value because of its image-determining location in rural surroundings on the southern edge of Amstelveen.