Boerderij, Plein 15

English translation

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Description

Introduction

CRUK FARMHOUSE in artisanal-traditional style, possibly founded c. 1664 as a three-aisled hall-house. The business section, which faces the street, must have been widened later and provided with a cross-wing. The residential section from the first half of the 19th century was expanded in the second half of the 19th century into a cruk house; a second dwelling was housed in the extension. The farmhouse is located in the agricultural countryside, at the edge of the village, on a spacious, partly paved yard with a few fruit trees.

Description

This is a farmhouse originally set up as a hall-house and later expanded into a cruk house. The facades all around are constructed with approximately five oak tie-beam frames in partly IJssel stone (residential house), hand-moulded brick (barn) and machine-made brick (extensions). The composite hipped and gabled roofs have half-hipped ends. Around 1990 the thatch roofing was replaced with corrugated asbestos-free sheets. Two chimneys on ridges perpendicular to each other reveal the location of two fireplaces in the residential section. The residential section has a facade constructed of orange-yellow IJssel stone with wattle-and-daub infill to the right below the sloping roof plane. The solid front door renewed in the old frame with fanlight and cast-iron life tree is flanked by two large sash windows with fine-mesh glazing bars. Of these, only the left window, with a 20-pane sash window, is still completely original; the right sash window has been replaced in the old frame with a new 15-pane window. Both windows are provided with renewed double shutters. At the extreme right, at ground level, is the cellar window with six diagonal bars. Above it is a window with a six-pane frame in which on the left are two inches of the upper chamber. On the left the residential section is extended in machine-made brick of a larger format than the old work (construction joint), whereby the original hall-house became a cruk house. This section comprised a complete small dwelling, with its own front door, cellar, upper chamber and fireplace, presumably intended for retired grandparents. In this part of the front facade are a solid front door with two-light fanlight and to the left of it a fixed nine-pane window. From building traces at the location it may be inferred that window and door were once exchanged in position. At attic level three windows with three-pane casement windows with horizontal glazing bars are placed at regular intervals. The windows, with the exception of those in the newer section, have simple plaster bands above and below. The wooden sills are grey, the frames white and the shutters and doors painted standard green. On the short facade of the business section facing the street, constructed in hand-moulded brick, wattle-and-daub infill is visible only on the left, where the roof is lower. Semi-circular cast-iron stable windows on the left and right. Later provisionally inserted, asymmetrically placed double divided doors under wooden lintels. Four bar anchors. In the long right side facade two sets of double doors, the first set providing access to later-made horse stables and the second to the cross-wing. Long, new bar anchors. A projecting section under a low overhanging roof has in the short gable end a small round window in a plaster band with metal, white-painted frame with six wedge-shaped openings. The long facade of machine-made brick in cross bond is chinked with a coarse tooth-joint in the hand-moulded brick gable end wall. In the long facade a six-part metal window with segmented top and a solid stable door. All doors in the business section - painted standard green - are renewed. The extension of the dwelling has on the rear side a small high-placed arched window with cross-glazing and a new fixed 15-pane window with fixed shutters in the place of the former small upper chamber window. The traces of the filled-in cellar window are still visible. The side wall of the extension is constructed of machine-made brick in random bond without wattle-and-daub infill. Asymmetrically, because of the location of the former upper chamber, on the right out of centre is an old, large, 20-pane sash window, presumably from the original side facade. At attic level an old four-pane sash window, probably also relocated. Two bar anchors. On the corner with the front facade a chamfered stone. The opposite side facade has from left to right from the corner with the front facade an old kitchen door with to the right of it a square frame with three-part window with horizontal glazing bars. Next to it was the original, now filled-in well. The residential house section has walls of small IJssel stone; the business section is constructed of machine-made brick in cross bond. Then comes a renewed solid stable door, two cast-iron stable windows with grain sheaf motif, double divided doors, for which the roof is raised slightly, providing access to the cross-wing. Further a concrete window with cross-glazing, a solid stable door, a concrete window with cross-glazing, a metal, arched nine-pane window and again a concrete window with cross-glazing. The last section of the side facade has a cement base.

Internally the residential section has been modernized while retaining the shell. The original layout is still recognizable. The corridor, which formerly ran from the front door to the business section but now ends at a toilet, provides access on the right to a room in which the old fireplace - with diagonal tortoise-shell tiles and small whites in a checkerboard pattern as well as an iron hearth plate without ornament - is built into a cupboard. The original kitchen next to it has been converted into a bathroom and small hallway. In the extreme corner lies the access, via a few stone steps, to a small cellar, covered with a half-round barrel vault. In the short side opposite the steps is a small barred window. The floor is of cement. Above the cellar a equally small upper chamber, which is reached via a wooden ladder with a few steps. On the other side of the corridor the room has been changed into a kitchen. In the residential section there are still several old frames and panel doors, with new fittings. All old ceilings and beam layers are hidden from view by timber facings. The dwelling in the extension is now connected to the main dwelling via a new opening with door. The original narrow sawn beam layers with beading are still visible here. The cellar with upper chamber has been removed here. In the place of the small upper chamber window a new fixed 15-pane window has been made. The old fireplace is still in use, but completely renewed in appearance. The original front door is no longer in use and internally removed. On the attic storey, accessible via a new wooden staircase at the back of the corridor, a number of small bedrooms have been made. The roof trusses have been completely boxed for this. Only above the upper chamber is a complete truss - a triangular truss with block corbels and braces, sprocket strut, tie beams and roof tie-beam - completely of softwood visible. The space towards the business section is partitioned off with wide panels. The business section is probably the oldest, possibly still dating from the 17th century part of the farmhouse. The farmhouse, originally founded as a hall-house, was erected around five oak tie-beam frames on high posts which are only visible in the current barn section. At a later time the structure was extended one-sidedly, so that it became asymmetrical. Above the aisle the floor of the hayloft still consists of woven willow rods. Despite the later arrangement with cross-wing, the original long aisle is also still clearly recognizable and over time has been made accessible again via the short rear facade, so that now effectively an aisle with a T-shaped floor plan has been created.

Valuation

The cruk farmhouse is of general interest. It has cultural-historical value as an example of a clearly legible development of a hall-house into a cruk house with cross-wing, from the 17th century to the second half of the 19th century. The farmhouse furthermore has architectural-historical significance because of the well-preserved main structure of residential house with barn and components of the interior. Through the presence of different building phases the property represents building-historical importance. The farmhouse is street-image-determining in its location.