Boerderij, Heikantstraat 39

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former FARMHOUSE, erected in craft-traditional building style and dating from the 17th century. The remarkable building is incorporated into the village development of Vught, so only a narrow garden surrounds the house. On one side the house is directly adjacent to the street with sturdy plane trees. In use as a residential house.

Description

Striking farmhouse with whitewashed rendering above a black plinth, on a notable, almost square ground plan with thatched hipped roof with one lower abutting roof plane. On three sides partly covered with black glazed roof tiles. A brick chimney stands directly above the original hearth, at the end of the roof facing the street, covered with reedwork at the ridge. The facade with the entrance is perpendicular to the street. The renewed front door has a fanlight. At the extreme left next to it is a cellar window; to the right two large new windows (circa 1965), the left one in an old frame. Next to these two almost square casement windows and a small window under a curved low roof edge. The left side facade, which faces the street, has an upper-room window at the extreme right in an old frame with central mullion, fluted side stiles, reveals and old thumbs, possibly 17th century. In it two-part casement windows. Approximately in the middle of the facade two small, nearly square casement windows. At the extreme left a double half-door of broad parts under a lower abutting roof plane. The door has three old hinges including one with a hand-wrought fleur-de-lis terminal. The rear facade has three old windows of different sizes and arrangement, respectively 6-pane, 4-pane and 2-pane. Subsequently the facade steps inward, now unrendered, and the roof, with broad tile stripe, takes a steeper pitch. The otherwise blank right side facade has a solid door and a dog house constructed under corrugated sheet below.

In the living kitchen, directly opposite the entrance, stands a very remarkable chimney breast with richly profiled chimney beam and a chimney jamb carved with heads and herms (17th century). Further, a door decorated with vertical pleats leading to the upper room with old hardware and fastenings.

Valuation

The 17th-century farmhouse is of general importance. The house has cultural-historical value as a remarkable expression of socio-economic development, as an example of a farmhouse with rich interior in the Meijerij. The building has architectural-historical value because of the well-preserved main structure both externally and internally and the traditional use of materials as well as because of components of the interior, in particular the carved chimney breast. The building has rarity value because of its unusual appearance, great age and rich interior components. The building is a defining feature of the streetscape.