Kerkelijke dienstwoning, St. Janstraat 20

English translation

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Description

Introduction

PARSONAGE from 1783 in the Neo-Classical style, prominently located on the main street of the village. The elongated two-storey building with hipped roof is entirely rendered and has a monumental entrance and carriage gateway. Renovated in 1913, 1948, 1968, 1972 and 1998. From 1929 to 1998 the parsonage was used as town hall of the former municipality of Hoeven.

Description

The partly cellared, entirely rendered building is constructed on an elongated rectangular plan. The hipped roof is covered with slate in Maas bond. On the left end of the ridge a wrought-iron weathervane with Art Nouveau ornament and the year 1913. Simplified profiled cornice with volute-shaped consoles. In the light grey rendered facade of eight bays are large stone blocks imitated by means of false joints. Of the originally three latticed basement windows to the left of the entrance, which partly lie below ground level, two have been filled in. The monumental entrance has a sandstone step with three treads and an ornamental carved sandstone door surround in Louis XVI style. The front door from c. 1948 has been replaced by a panel door with two panes in the upper section. In the fanlight sits a cast iron tree of life. The carriage gateway has a semicircular profiled surround with keystone in render. The keystone is covered with the former municipal coat of arms. The passage is vaulted with a barrel vault built in brick with a girder arch halfway along. The passage is closed off by wrought-iron railings from the second half of the 20th century. The fourteen windows with 6-pane sash windows are set in sandstone frames. The central stiles of the fanlights were originally of metal, but on the upper storey in 1999 were replaced with wood. The windows are fitted with immovable shutters mounted on the wall, which like the front door are painted in a permanent green colour. The side facade on Raadhuisplein is entirely blank and rendered. Of the four volute-shaped consoles beneath the cornice two are simplified. The original rear facade has become partly unrecognisable due to later additions, which have since been demolished. The rear facade partly has the same windows as the front facade. Of these the windows on the ground floor are fitted with shutters. In the middle of the rear facade a reset [?] sandstone gateway from the first half of the 18th century with an unmoulded, profiled semicircular arch and an ornamental carved keystone. [Currently wrapped up due to renovation and thus not visible. Possibly originating from the demolished Post Office. Possibly add later description]

The original layout and decoration has been partly lost for the purposes of the former function as town hall. All doors have been renewed, mostly also the frames. From the hall with stuccoed ceiling, lambriselling of fair-faced brickwork and red tile floor from c. 1948, the deep cellar is accessible via a staircase with twelve stone steps. (Cellar is currently flooded and not accessible. There was also no light. Possibly add description later) To the left and right of the hall two rooms, on the left with a heavy monumental fireplace and painted municipal coat of arms, c. 1948. Directly opposite the front door a rear entrance with reset sandstone surround (see rear facade). A renewed wooden staircase leads upstairs, where two rooms are found. One of these is the large former council chamber with fireplace from c. 1948, decorated with heraldic symbols and painted municipal coat of arms. In the rear facade two round windows with stained leaded glass on which "harmony" and "justice" are symbolised. In this hall three original tie beams with morticed collar ties have been left visible. Halfway along the hall a ravelling, presumably for a chimney against a disappeared intermediate wall. The beams show axe marks for former rendering. Elsewhere above lowered ceilings simple stucco ceilings decorated with mouldings are visible. The closed roof truss of the house was entirely renewed in a modern manner around 1970.

Valuation

The property represents in its function as former parsonage and former town hall a matter of general interest. To the original functions it owes cultural-historical values as an example of a former ecclesiastical and secular administrative centre at local level. The property is of architectural-historical importance because of detailing and material use as an example of early 18th-century Neo-Classicism, because of the sandstone gateway surround in the rear facade and the decorations in the interior. The property has ensemble value as a prominently located component of the historic village centre.