Boerderij, Venstraat 2

English translation

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Description

Description component 1: short-gable farmhouse.

Introduction

SHORT-GABLE FARMHOUSE, originally of the central transverse-aisle type with overhang, constructed in artisanal-traditional building style, originally dating from 1596 and subsequently (19th century and circa 1950) modified. Situated on a somewhat raised spacious farmyard with fruit trees, among them a walnut and five large oaks with a trunk circumference of approximately 2.00 m. In front of the house a well with well-frame. The remarkably old house forms part of the hamlet Plein, surrounding a three-way road junction.

Description

Short-gable farmhouse with anchor-beam timber frames under thatched gabled roof with half-hipped end and end board, covered with suppressed Dutch tiles, the side facing away from the road mainly with red Dutch tiles. Original roof covering with straw. At the height of the fire wall between residential and business section stands on the ridge a laid chimney. The facades are mainly constructed from yellow-orange IJsselstein in Flemish bond. The front facade has on the right of the central axis a renewed front door with nine panes under a segmental arch in the upper part in original frame. Divided fanlight. On each side a six-pane window with sash window and renewed double shutters. At the far left a basement window with casement window above which a casement window with cross-glazing bars and renewed upper-chamber shutter. On attic level two symmetrically placed windows with casement windows fitted with cross-glazing bars with shutter. Year anchor 1596. All wall openings are provided at the top with relieving arches. The right side wall is with the exception of the rear section around 1950 renewed in orange-red machine-made brick. In it five casement windows with cross-glazing bars and shutter from the same period. The rear facade, with in the central axis a sealed stable door, on the left side a six-pane window and on the right two divided concrete stable windows with segmental upper side, is after 1950 partly constructed from reused handmade brick, partly from machine-made brick. Originally an overhang with double divided door was located here which is now missing and points to a central transverse-aisle. The left side gable is circa 1965 entirely renewed with reused IJsselstein and comprises besides an extended porch with rear entrance under a half-hipped roof and a kitchen window three stable doors with concrete lintels and three divided concrete stable windows.

Internally the original layout is largely preserved. To the left beside the entrance a cellar with barrel vault and laid brick staircase of three steps is located. Above it an upper-chamber. The living room lies three steps higher than the kitchen. In the living room are two anchor-beams exposed to view. The ceilings are concealed from sight by later panellings. Renewed hearth in the original location, in the kitchen a part of a reused hearth beam. In the house panel doors with six-pane upper part, circa 1900. In the barn section four timber frames with reused transverse beams on timber blocks as a later extension. Round timber sleepers and dowel jointing. The original rear wall from IJsselstein remains after the closure of the overhang. On the attic triangular roof trusses with collar-beam on two levels. The lower ones are braced on the rafter. All of round timber and nailed. Round timber traces. On the posts of the anchor-beam timber frames an oak beam.

Assessment

The short-gable farmhouse from 1596 is of general importance. The house has cultural-historical value as a distinctive expression of a socio-economic development, as an example of a short-gable farmhouse in the Meierei. The property forms together with the barn with bake-oven a valuable ensemble. The farmhouse is character-determining in the streetscape and with the traditional farmyard planting characteristic of the open agrarian settlement of the hamlet Plein.