Boerderij(M1), Oude Kerkstraat 12

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former SHORT-GABLE FARMHOUSE of the Altenase cross-wing type, dating from 1830. The building is constructed in craft-traditional building style with regional characteristics. It stands with the ridge parallel to the street. Five young lime trees in front of the façade. Internally converted into two dwellings with business space.

Description

The single-storey farmhouse on a rectangular ground plan is constructed above a plastered plinth from orange hand-formed bricks in English bond. High thatched gabled roof with half-hipped ends. Two brick chimneys on the ridge, one at the location of the former division between residential and business sections, another above the second dwelling. The symmetrical 5-bay façade has on either side of the new front door, with matching cast-iron tree-of-life in the fanlight in an old frame with moulded upper transom, two T-windows with 8-pane fanlight and double shutters. At loft level two renewed windows with 20-pane sash windows. In the attic a renewed window with 16-pane sash window. All windows and the door are provided at the top with drip mouldings and below with roller shutters. Rod anchors. Below the attic window the date 1830. Woven panels. The long right gable has at the far right a T-window with 8-pane fanlight, drip mouldings and roller shutter, and is provided with double shutters with mirror clamp and light openings in the form of half moons. Rod anchors. At the location of the former business section a second dwelling has been installed. Only the panelled door with divided fanlight and roller shutter stands in the old place. Further two T-windows with 8-pane fanlight, drip mouldings and roller shutter as well as a small square hopper window with clamped shutter and a window with glazing bars and clamped shutter, all newly inserted. Authentic are the large double divided doors, left part divisible, in upper part with 4-pane window, painted white. In right part a man-door and a small pane in upper part. At the far right a door from bead strips. Very long rod anchors. The long left gable has at the height of the residential section a barred cellar window with roller shutter and above it the upper-room window with 16-pane sash window, roller shutter and double shutters with mirror clamp. To the right several new additions such as a window with glazing bars, double casement doors with glass and 16-pane fanlight. Above a broad strip with hopper windows with glazing bars and door which breaks through the roof line and for which the thatched roof has been raised. The roof of the former business section sits lower. The gable below is provided with three new windows with centre post and hopper windows with glazing bars, double casement doors with small glazing bar division. Furthermore a window with glazing bars, a door with glass in upper part with small glazing bar division and a wc window. All windows with roller shutters and double clamped shutters. The rear gable with woven panels has at the far right a door with old forged hinges, a divisible door with 6-pane window in upper half and thumb latches in the frame, old forged hinges. On the left a narrow tall window with 8-pane window and on the left a thumb latch. At the far left a similar blocked window, in which a later window with iron arched 7-pane window pane. Under the half-hipped end a square window with glazing bar frame. Rod anchors, curved under the roof slope. All frames are light yellow, the panes white and the doors and shutters green in various shades.

Internally the old layout has largely remained. Long corridor with polychrome floor tiles with four-lobed motif (19th century). Panelled doors in richly moulded door frames. Room on the right with old beam ceiling and two box beds with panelled doors. Room on the left with box bed with panelled doors, changed into door with stair access. In corridor on the left with 5 steps access to upper room with old box bed. Cellar with three steps down, red floor tiles, barrel vault. In the kitchen, from the corridor on the right, renewed hearth with old bread oven and panelled door cupboard. In the loft traditional pine rafters with mortice-and-tenon joints. Tie-beam, struts, wind braces, collar ties. On the tie-beam triangular rafters with collar tie. Ridge board. In the cross-wing heavy anchor beam ties.

Valuation

The short-gable farmhouse is of general importance. The building has cultural-historical value as a particular expression of a socio-economic development, as an example of a short-gable farmhouse with cross-wing in the Land of Heusden and Altena. The building has architectural-historical value because of the internally and externally well-preserved main structure and the traditional use of materials as well as because of components of the interior. It has ensemble value as one of the last remains of the old buildings in the centre of Aalburg and is character-defining for the street.