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English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former DAIRY FACTORY from 1903, forming part of the complex "Melkerij Hofstede Oud-Bussem". The building, designed by K.P.C. de Bazel, has its front façade facing a transverse road off the Flevolaan. The dairy house formed the link between milk production and sales through its own branch shops. Here the milk was cooled and bottled. On the first floor the laboratory of the dairy was also located. In 1950 the dairy house was converted to dwellings, during which, amongst other things, the doors and windows of the ground floor were altered. In order to be able to unload the milk churns brought by cart, the east corner of the building between the plinth and the flat roof was originally open.

N.B. The later extension against the right side wall is, as are the sheds built against the left side wall, of subsidiary importance for the purposes of protection.

Description

A dairy factory built on an approximately rectangular floor plan of one storey under a compound roof covered with red Dutch tiles consisting of a high tent roof above the front half, a lower gabled roof to the rear left in line with the left roof slope, a small hipped roof to the right against the right roof slope, and between this hipped roof and the gabled roof a flat roof. The tent roof is crowned by a zinc weathercock in the form of a thorn apple. The outer walls, laid in cross bond with struck mortar joints, are constructed above a tapering plinth closed off by a sloped roll moulding, in red nuanced mechanical Flemish bond brick. At the top, the façades are finished with a brick gutter on moulded corbels, below which is a frieze of diagonal decorative brickwork and an architrave in the form of a red moulded stone drip moulding. The front façade (SW) has a narrow central risalit extending over two storeys under an incised gabled roof on which red Dutch tiles are laid. At the top of this risalit is a cross window, beneath which is a richly decorated sandstone façade stone depicting a doe, the logo of the dairy, with below it the text "HOFSTEDE / OUD BUSSEM". At the location of the façade stone, the aforementioned drip moulding is half-round and raised. The triangular top of the risalit is provided with plaiting and juts out underside to the sides above a quarter-round console of sandstone. Sandstone is also used at the point of intersection halfway along the risalit. Of the original double door in the risalit, the frame remains, the upper lintel of which is embellished with carved ornamental motifs. A hard stone step lies in front of the entrance. In the lower left of the front façade is a hard stone corner stone with a circle motif on the front face, around which is the date of the laying of the first stone 17-8-1903, and on the left side the names of the founders of the dairy "JOANNES / VAN / WOENSEL / KOOY / FLORIS VOS". Left and right on the front slope is a roof dormer window containing a twelve-pane segmental arch window under a vaulted zinc roof. On both side slopes of the tent roof is a broad brick roof structure provided with a horizontal three-part window and a pointed gable comparable to that of the risalit. Below the horizontal windows the drip moulding is locally raised and an eight-pointed star is laid in. To the left of the roof structure above the right side façade (SE) is a roof dormer window as before; to the left of the other roof structure, on the left (NW) roof slope of the gabled roof, are three such roof dormer windows. The left side façade (NW) has in the centre below a cellar ventilation opening in which is a four-pane cellar window. The gabled roof ends in a pointed gable which, like the roof structures, is provided with plaiting and juts out underside to the sides above a quarter-round sandstone console. Against this gable, topped by a square chimney of red mechanical Flemish bond brick, a lower ground floor extension adjoins (here stood the steam engine) under a three-sided cat-slide roof covered with red Dutch tiles. On the rear slope of the tent roof is a roof structure as on the front slope, but with a roof light. To the left of this is a broad roof dormer window containing a segmental roof light window with small glazing bars under a curved roof. Above the rear slope is a substantial rectangular chimney of red mechanical Flemish bond brick. The interior still contains several elements from the time of construction including rounded arch passages and in the lower left a straight brick flight of stairs in red brick with hard stone steps leading to the former butter cellar. The latter has a concrete floor, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of iron beams between which are barrel vault tiles. In the wall next to the cellar stairs is a four-pane round window. The attic storey is provided with a balustrade and a covered rafter collar truss with above it in the tent roof a substantial tie beam.

Valuation

The former dairy house is of general importance as a historical-functional component of the complex "Melkerij Hofstede oud-Bussem" and as a largely well-preserved example of a business building designed by architect K.P.C. de Bazel from the early 20th century.