Boerderij, Benedenkerkstraat 103

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDING (formerly LEATHER TANNERY) with an inset cornice-topped facade, built in 1868 in a craft-traditional building tradition, possibly older in its core, or built using parts of an older house. The building is situated behind an iron railing fence on a plot with clipped yew hedges, linden and horse chestnut, at the very edge of the village with similar farmhouses in ribbon development. The ridge stands perpendicular to the street. The commercial section has been converted into a residence. Behind the house an unprotected old outbuilding with garden wall. Heightening of the commercial section with two drying lofts for the tannery in 1898. The tannery was in operation until circa 1920.

Description

The single-storey building consists of a dwelling on a rectangular floor plan beneath a gabled roof with half-hipped roof at the front. Adjoining it an equally wide commercial section with a transverse section beneath an approximately 1.50 m higher gabled roof. The dwelling section is covered with mottled improved Dutch tiles, the commercial section has red Dutch tiles. Two chimneys stand at the ends of the ridge of the dwelling section. The asymmetrically arranged front facade, like the entire dwelling section, is built of dark reddish-brown handmoulded brick (21 x 10.5 x 4 cm) in English bond with cut joint. The inset cornice-topped facade with profiled wooden cornice is lightly shouldered and provided with roll mouldings. The front door, left of the central axis, is set in a monumental entrance feature with wooden pilasters and cornice on corbels and egg moulding. Door frame with sandstone lugs. Fanlight with leaded glass. Left of the door one and right of the door two large windows with 6-pane sash windows. On the upper storey two identical, symmetrically placed windows. All windows have lintels and sandstone window sills. The frames of the ground floor have thumbs. The right side gable has on the far left the narrow tall window characteristic of the Langstraat development, with renewed three-pane filling. Further two renewed windows with 6-pane frames of the upper room. Below this a barred cellar window. Staple anchors. The left side gable has a three-part narrow tall window on the far right and a window with 6-pane sash window and formerly double fixed shutters. The ground floor and rear facade of the commercial section are built of and subsequently repaired in various types of handmoulded brick, above this partly sealed with pitch and tarred. The front stable was converted early into a second dwelling, with its own entrance and heating place. This is evident in the left side gable by the presence of a closed door with fanlight and a window with 6-pane sash window with double fixed shutters. On the opposite right side two windows with T-frames and double fixed shutters. On the upper storey on both sides a 9-pane cast iron lunette window. The side gables of the barn have primarily segmental arch windows with 9-pane frames. The double split doors are located at the rear left. On the right gable also a new door and two renewed 6-pane windows for the residential function of the stable. The rear gable is erected as a pointed gable with wind braces in a yellowish-grey handmoulded brick. Windows on four levels. The ground floor shows traces of two sealed doors with segmental arch, on the far right a segmental arch window with 9-pane filling. On the first and second storeys each a sealed (loading) door with segmental arch and on both sides an iron lunette window with 9-pane filling. The specimen lower right is sealed. At the top a sealed oculus. The roll mouldings are of reddish-brown brick. The former function of leather tannery is most evident in the rear section heightened with two drying lofts with its pitch-sealed walls and many loading doors: an extension from 1898.

Internally the original layout has been largely preserved. The front section is divided into two by a long hallway with sandstone tiles. On either side rooms. The front right room, which forms one whole with the upper room by the removal of a partition wall, has a stucco ceiling with ornamented central rosette and profiled edge mouldings. Authentic panel doors are found throughout the front section. In the large bedroom at the back there is a bedstead wall with panel doors and a dresser. A particular element is formed by the painted wallhangings, of which visible are a grisaille executed overmantel, depicting a coin on which is depicted a winged putto between garlands, and on either side of the door a large rectangular painting with a Waspik village scene, on the left the Catholic church built in 1837-1841 in Waterloopbouw style and on the right a view of the old harbour, drained around 1950. Garland paintings and a view of the Maas ferry are possibly still hidden behind later applied wallpaper. The paintings are from the same hand as those of the vault paintings in the Catholic church. Furthermore a red-veined marble fireplace mantel with white marble volute consoles. The upper room above the tallow cellar has a beam ceiling. In the substructure of the rear section there is an old timber frame construction, above it two drying lofts. Transverse section.

Frames, windows, cornice and door surround are painted white, doors and shutters standard green.

The property boundary towards the street is formed by a wrought iron railing fence with spikes and cast iron balusters at the entrance. Behind the house a small transversely placed barn beneath a gabled roof on an almost rectangular floor plan. The roof is covered with red and smoke-blackened Dutch pantiles mixed together. The wind braces are provided with a scalloped edge at the plot side. The walls were originally built of yellowish-grey IJssel stone in English bond. Both gable ends were renewed in the XIXth century in reddish-brown brick in English bond. In the gable top there is on both sides a round window with iron bars. Various building traces of later relocated window and door openings. Staple anchors. Against the plot side a short garden wall built of IJssel stone, topped with a half-round ridge on a mouse-tooth base.

Valuation

The former residential and commercial building from 1868-1898 is of general importance. The building has cultural-historical value as an example of a regional type that was later expanded into a leather tannery typical of the Langstraat. It has architectural-historical value due to the well-preserved main structure and components of interior and exterior, in particular due to the painted wallhangings and the representative entrance feature with railings, furthermore due to the harmonious proportions and craftsman-applied traditional building materials. The paintings have art-historical and topographical value. Due to the recognisability of the different building phases the building is also of importance from a building-historical perspective.