Boerderij, Mon Plaisir 17

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former SHORT-GABLE FARMHOUSE with cross-wing dating from 1841. Located on a small plot with fruit trees and a walnut tree. The building stands with its ridge nearly parallel to and a short distance from the road in an agricultural rural area with scattered farmhouses. The property is in use as a dwelling, the business section as storage.

Description

The single-storey farmhouse on a rectangular ground plan has a gabled roof curving at both sides that was originally thatched with straw and has been renewed with reed. On both sides a row of red and blue Dutch tiles. On the division between residential and business sections a brick chimney. On the ridge blue reed cresting. The walls are built above a plastered plinth from purplish-red brick in an irregular bond consisting mainly of headers and three-quarter bricks. The front gable has nogging and bears the anchor date 1841. The asymmetrically arranged front gable has on the left off-centre a solid front door with three-part fanlight and on either side a 5-pane window with sash frame. Above the wall openings each time a roll moulding. The double shutters (on the right with closing rod) were renewed around 1975. On attic level at the far left is an attic light with wooden grilles and a clamped shutter. At the far right a building trace of a similar, now sealed attic light. Directly under the half-hipped end a strut. In the right side gable at the height of the bedroom a small window with cross glazing bars. At the height of the stable two iron 6-pane stable windows, followed by a small single door and at the far right at the height of an inset the large double divided door. Around 1930 the farmhouse was reportedly shortened for reasons of cost savings, as a result of which the last roof truss in the side gable constructed of reused brick remained visible, apart from a door at the far right the entire rear gable is blind. The left side gable has at the location of the kitchen a small, not original window, followed by a square cellar window formerly fitted with grilles and at the location of the business section two sealed doors. The partly renewed masonry is fitted with struts. Doors and shutters are painted dark green, frames ochre yellow and windows white. Inside the original arrangement and anchor-beam truss structure with five roof trusses has been largely preserved. To the left of the front door a small room and a small kitchen with old door to the barely recessed cellar with beam ceiling and brick floor. Above it a simple open wooden stair to the small upper room. The living kitchen has an old chimney breast with simply moulded oak chimney beam and cross-end enriched with carved ornament. Below the chimney beam a view-hole to the stable and bread oven with iron flap. To the right of the chimney breast a small bedroom with original panel door. In the residential section a devotional niche with pointed capping has been left in the front wall. Beam ceiling on anchor-beam trusses. Carpenters' marks "little eggs" on the left and cut straight marks on the right. The business section with cow stable and privy is largely still intact. Triangular roof trusses on anchor-beam trusses. For the upper part of the interior walls of the upper room clay-brick was used. Some original clamped interior doors.

Valuation

The short-gable farmhouse with cross-wing from 1841 is of general importance. The object has cultural-historical value as a well-preserved example of a short-gable farmhouse with cross-wing in the Meijerij of Den Bosch. The farmhouse has architectural-historical value because of the internally and externally well-preserved main structure with complete truss construction and interior components, as well as because of the harmonious proportions and the craftsman-traditional use of materials. The object is characteristic of the street scene and typical of scattered agricultural buildings in the rural area of Gemonde.