Boerderij(M1), Berkhoek 14

English translation

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Description

Introduction

LONG-FAÇADE FARMHOUSE with transverse section. The farmhouse originated from a three-aisled hall-house, dating from the 17th century and subsequently modified. The building is constructed in artisanal-traditional building style and stands on a spacious plot in the countryside of Boekel. Old lime trees stand around the farmhouse, with tall-growing oaks between house and road. A narrow asphalted road connects the public road with the farm. A small bakehouse has been built onto the rear side. In front of the façade is a strip paved with old clinker bricks.

Description

The single-storey farmhouse on rectangular plan under gabled roof with half-hipped roofs is covered with corrugated sheet and curved roof tiles, and since c. 1935 entirely rendered except on the long rear façade and short right side façade. The grey render layer is highly decorative with block bond, corner chains, continuous plinth with scalloped edge and rosettes, indication of voussoirs, scalloped edge along roof and a cross in the short façade to the left. The long façade has on either side of the front door, with small pane and divided fanlight, an old 20-pane window with sash frame in profiled frame with drip moulding and double shutters with recessed crescent motif. To the right of this, after a small window, the door with fanlight providing access to the front stable. The double stable doors, with decorative surround in render, are accompanied on either side by a six-light iron stable frame. The short façade to the left was until the 20th century virtually blank, except for a small window at the far left (see building trace) and two small six-pane attic windows, but after removal of the box-beds in the room to the left of the door, a 20-pane window with sash frame as in the front façade has been installed to the right, while the small window at the far left was replaced by two 9-pane windows with casement frame. The short façade to the right is constructed of orange hand-formed brick. Against the long rear façade a bakehouse has been built at the far right on rectangular plan under attached gabled roof, covered with orange curved roof tiles. The actual oven, which was originally external to the right, has been demolished. Inside, however, the iron oven door can still be seen. By the insertion of large double clamping doors in the short façade, the bakehouse was converted into a garage c. 1960. The long façade to the right is entirely blank, in the left façade a door and a window with iron bars in curved pane pattern. The long rear façade is somewhat raised at the level of the residential part, which results in a break in the roof. This raised section is covered with orange curved roof tiles. A new rear wall with kitchen door and two-part window with casement windows was installed c. 1960. The business section with brickwork from around 1900 has three stable doors, one of which at the location of blocked stable doors, and two arched cast-iron stable frames (spinneret-shaped).

The main structure of the farmhouse consists of 5 heavy oak tie-beam truss pairs. The tie-beam of the rearmost truss in the business section is particularly well finished and has at both ends a keystone piece ornamented with chip-carved work. Perhaps this beam was reused and came from elsewhere. Internally, the original arrangement into dwelling-house, front stable and barn, each accessible via its own door in the long front façade, has been preserved. The central living kitchen had to make way for a corridor with rooms. The original chimney, beam layers and ceilings are concealed by encasement, with the exception of the ceiling of the "best room", to the left of the front door. Here an oak beam layer with underslung beam and a ceiling of broad oak boards are visible. In the dark green paint the location of the removed box-beds is evident. The windows in the short side façade to the left date from after the demolition of the box-beds. The cellar, with four stone steps, originally had a barrel vault, but was divided in two around 1935 and provided with a beam ceiling. Therein, among other things, a brick-built brine tub. After the front stable follows the cow stable with barn and hayloft, which are still entirely intact. In the storing-loft a wooden ladder-stair leads to the undivided attic. Although the reed roof has been removed, the oak couple rafter roof truss is still largely in place.

Valuation

The long-façade farmhouse with bakehouse is of general interest. The complex has cultural-historical value as a relatively early and well-preserved example of a long-façade farmhouse with attached bakehouse. It has architectural-historical value because of the main structure well preserved both inside and out and the traditional use of materials, as well as because of components of the interior. The building has building-historical value because of the fairly rare oak couple rafter roof truss, which indicates great age, the distinctive beam keystones in the barn and the decorative rendering of the external façades. The farmhouse together with the associated bakehouse and surrounding trees has ensemble value. The farmhouse is characterful in the street scene.