Maassluis

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former MALT HOUSE "Maassluis" built in 1869 in sober eclectic style commissioned by J. Houtman. The malt house is situated on the Westerhaven, which was dug in 1860 and laid out to serve the last major period of prosperity (1850-1880) of the (small-scale) Schiedam jenever industry. The malt house is typologically representative of the housing of this specific production phase of the jenever business sector in this period. Characteristic is the symmetrical facade layout with multiple low storeys on which the malt, a semifinished product for the production of alcohol, was spread out on heated tile floors to germinate.

In 1946 the malt house was converted to serve a new function as a factory for bakery raw materials, NV Lenderink & Co. For this purpose the original wooden construction up to and including the second storey was replaced by a concrete construction and the front facade at ground floor level was (very carefully) modified in the style of the Delft School. The doors on the first storey and attic storey date from before 1946. Originally a single door was located only on the first storey.

NB: The right (eastern) side facade has been largely bricked up by the new building at number 18. In the remaining part of the rendered facade the original layout is still partially recognisable. Against the left (western) side facade and the (rendered) rear facade there is a building volume of one storey not worthy of national protection, due to which the original facade layout has been altered at that location. The characteristic detailing of the windows and/or shutters has been lost at a number of windows. In 1949 a roof light was inserted. In 1998-1999 the property was converted for use as studios and office space. The original nameplate bearing the name of the distillery "Maassluis", in the middle of the facade, has disappeared.

Description

The former malt house is constructed on a rectangular floor plan and consists of a ground floor storey, a first, second and attic storey under a gabled roof with the ridge direction perpendicular to the street. The symmetrical front facade is seven window bays wide and is constructed above a hardstone plinth in red/grey brick and the rear and side facades in yellow IJssel brick. On the ground floor there is in the middle a segmental arch entrance gateway, with double (diagonal) panelled doors, set between two natural stone pilasters on a natural stone base and having natural stone corner stones which set off the stretching segmental arch roll moulding. The gateway is flanked by a segmental arch window with a natural stone drip moulding and cramp irons and a single door provided with a six-pane window, with a surround conforming to the gateway. On the first storey seven segmental arch windows with four-pane frames, of which the central one, originally a door, is wider than the other six. The windows are crowned with stretching roll mouldings and provided with natural stone drip mouldings. The second storey contains in the middle a segmental arch door opening, with double panelled doors conforming to the ground floor, flanked by three lightly arched windows with six-pane frames. On the attic storey there is in the middle a straight door opening, with double panelled doors as previously described, with on either side three lightly arched windows with six-pane frames. Doors and windows are crowned by a stretching roll moulding and have natural stone drip mouldings. The spout gable has under the ridge a pediment-like triangular spandrel framed by header brickwork with in the middle a round light similarly framed with header brickwork. The spout gable is finished with a profiled cement cornice. In the side facades and rear facade of the property all windows are lightly arched and crowned with stretching roll mouldings. A number of windows still contain the original six-pane frames. The left (western) side facade has on the second storey eight windows and at the level of the attic storey, ten windows. The rear facade has at the level of the first, second and attic storeys each six windows and under the ridge a round light. The facades are provided at the level of the floor beams with simple ornamental wall anchors.

Of the original wooden construction the roof truss structure remains, consisting of a series of roof trusses in the form of hanging trusses.

Valuation

Former malt house, built in sober Eclectic style in 1869, as a characteristic building type for the last major period of prosperity (1850-1880) of the (small-scale) Schiedam distillery business activity of general importance for its architectural and cultural-historical value, as well as for its image-determining and ensemble value in relation to the other distilleries and malt houses on the Westerhaven, which was dug in 1860.