Branderij, Noordvestsingel 77

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former DISTILLERY built in 1873 in Eclectic style. The distillery is situated on the Noordvest, which was dug in 1350, and forms part of a whole row of distilleries that were built here in the seventeen seventies of the nineteenth century. The distilleries in their original layout (probably on account of fire risk) stood free on both sides.

The distillery is typologically representative of the housing of this specific production phase within the jenever industry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Characteristic is the asymmetrical facade layout which results from the positioning on the ground floor of the (wider) copper kettles on one side of the distillery and the kettle equipment on the other side. On the first floor, on the far left, there is the door through which, via a ladder, the bags of raw materials were carried inside. It is probable that due to the scaling up of the packing of bulky goods at the end of the nineteenth century, the door was enlarged into a double door with a steel hoisting beam above it.

NB: The characteristic detailing of the windows has been lost in a number of casements. Two windows have been added to the side gable on the ground floor and on the floor. These are - instead of lightly arched like the original windows - straight at the top with a steel lintel. On the ground floor, a door, a shutter and three ventilation grilles have also been installed. In the interior, a lowered ceiling has been installed for the benefit of an office on the floor.

The originally free space between the building and the right-hand neighbouring building has been built with a volume of two storeys. The front facade of this building volume was originally carefully adapted to the distillery facade, but is in poor condition. The facade is constructed of red/grey bricks and covered with a profiled cemented cornice. On the ground floor there is a (bricked-up) double door under an arched stretcher course and protruding header course and flanked by sandstone pilasters with ditto abacus. On the first floor there is a (bricked-up) lightly arched window crowned by a header course and a protruding header course and with a bricked water drip moulding. Windows in the right side gable are bricked up.

Description

The distillery is constructed on a rectangular floor plan and consists of a high ground floor storey and a spacious first floor under a tile-covered gabled roof with the ridge direction perpendicular to the street. The front facade is constructed of red/grey bricks and the rear and side gables in yellow Ijssel stone. The front facade is framed between bricked pilasters with sparefields and a sandstone cornice. The pilasters are visually extended along the roof line of the spout gable by the application of a bricked frieze with sparefield. In the point of the frieze, a brick French lily has been placed. The spout gable is covered with a double, stepped header course.

All windows in the distillery are lightly arched and provided with one-and-a-half-brick stretcher courses. The front facade contains on the ground floor to the right of centre a double, hinged carriage entrance which is framed between two sandstone pilasters. Above the gate there is a round-arched fanlight provided with the characteristic spiderweb window, crowned by a one-and-a-half-brick stretcher course in which a sandstone voussoir with the building year (1873) engraved in it. The gate is flanked by one window on the right and two windows on the left with sandstone water drip mouldings and thumb stones. One thumb stone of the right window is missing due to the placement of a grille. On the first floor, far left in the facade, there is a double strip door crowned by a (straight) header course and above it a steel hoisting beam. To the right of the door are four windows with sandstone water drip mouldings. At the top of the facade is a circular light framed by protruding header brickwork. In the side and rear gables of the building all windows have bricked water drip mouldings. In the left (western) side gable at the level of the ground floor three of the - originally - five windows are still intact. Of the three windows the twelve-pane hinged frames are missing but the thumb stones are still present. Of the two bricked-up windows, one has the thumb stones remaining and both have the course remaining. At the level of the first floor there are five original windows. In the rear gable at ground floor level to the left of centre there is a carriage entrance with a round-arched fanlight. Doors and frames are missing. The two windows on the right and the single one on the left are bricked up. At the level of the first floor there are four original windows and under the ridge of the pointed gable a circular light framed by header brickwork. The side and rear gables contain at the level of the beam layers simple wall anchors with straight brackets. The internal structure is determined by a composite beam layer. On the ground floor the double main beam is supported by wooden props. The roof truss structure consists of a series of trusses in the form of hanging trusses.

Valuation

Former distillery built in Eclectic style in 1873, as a characteristic building type for the last major flourishing period (1850-1880) of (small-scale) Schiedam distillery operations of general importance on account of its architectural and cultural-historical value, as well as on account of its image-determining and ensemble value in relation to the other distilleries from the same period on the Noordvestsingel.