Pastorie(F), Grote Buren 1

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Description

Introduction

RESIDENCE (former rectory) with landscaped GARDEN, iron RAILINGS and (former) MORTUARY CHAPEL. The ensemble is markedly situated in the centre of the protected village Wergea (Warga), registered as a protected townscape, near the intersection of through roads and the waterway. The (former) RECTORY was built in 1878 as a service dwelling adjoining the opposite (protected) Reformed church (1872; enlarged 1878) with enclosed churchyard. The construction of the rectory and mortuary chapel coincided with the enlargement of the church that year. The eclectic design of the rectory can be attributed to village carpenter A.K. Hoekstra, who also oversaw the execution. Whether he also designed the mortuary chapel is unknown. The GARDEN as a long narrow plot with buildings on a rectangular to square ground plan is already recognisable on the Eekhoff map (1849-1850). The dimensions (approximately 35 x 90 metres) correspond with the present situation. The contemporary cast and wrought iron RAILINGS form the division between the front garden and the path of the church ring.

The (former) MORTUARY CHAPEL was also built in 1878. It also served as a 'detainees' cell'. When the new cemetery on the east side of the village came into use, it lost its function. It was subsequently used as storage space for the fire brigade and as a garage, for which purpose the pilasters in the front gable were removed and the front window frame was enlarged. These alterations have since been reversed.

DESCRIPTION

RECTORY EXTERIOR

Single-storey, partly cellared residence on rectangular plan (with two extensions), built of fair-faced brickwork in red-brown facing brick (cut mortar joint) and covered by a hipped roof tiled with black-glazed hollow tiles with corner chimneys (originally with caps); plastered moulded cornice all around; three dormers (in front and side hips), each two windows wide, the one at the front with small balcony and forming part of the central entrance composition; plastered plinth and plastered moulded work; eight-sided plastered pilasters at the corners and on either side of the main entrance; plastered decorative ornaments (shell and flower motifs). The principal window and door openings have light mouldings. The original exterior shutters, chimney caps and cresting ornaments of the dormers are missing.

The front facade is symmetrically arranged: continuous decorated central entrance composition with, on the ground floor, double panelled door with fanlight, preceded by a three-step stone porch; on the (roof) storey french windows with small balcony with cast-iron balustrade with floral motifs; consoles in the form of putti. On either side of the central entrance two french windows; in the right side gable three french windows and two barred cellar windows. In the left side gable double panel/glass door with fanlight and two french windows. In the rear gable (including an extension which formerly housed the privy; see blocked opening) double doors with cruciform infill and two-light fanlight; two-step stone porch; window with shutter and paired barred cellar windows; the window arrangements on either side no longer (entirely) original. On the left side a rectangular brick extension (possibly of an earlier build phase) under a hipped roof tiled with black-glazed hollow tiles; gutter on brackets; in the right side wall a wooden door with two-light fanlight; a six-pane window and a round window with infill; in the left side wall wooden door and two small rectangular windows; in the end gable double closed wooden doors; small rectangular window.

RECTORY INTERIOR

Characteristic plan, consisting of ground floor with (extending into the extension) central corridor with floor of wide boards; rooms on either side; staircase to the storey under the roof (with manually squared pine rafters with broad boarding). In the interior the following components are of note: the plasterwork in corridor and rooms, the wooden panelled doors, wainscots, window sills and (interior) shutters, the cupboard wall in the bedroom, the black marble fireplace mantel in the front room, the staircase with cast-iron balusters, in the kitchen the false-beam ceiling, a hearth and a bed-recess/cupboard wall (restored and supplemented 1999), on the attic the rack with drying poles and the partition wall between landing and attic space, consisting of plasterwork on reed on one side and horizontal boards on the other, between them wood shavings as insulation; the cellar (presumed to be pre-1840; earlier build phase) comprises a larger and a smaller section, separated from each other by arch-ended masonry; raising on the west side, as well as the floor, with (worn) green tiles.

RECTORY GARDEN and RAILINGS

Belonging to the former rectory is a large GARDEN which has retained its original extent, is soberly laid out and consists primarily of grass lawn with low shrubbery as boundary. On the east side the garden is bounded by a water feature of the municipal park; the boundary ditch on the south-east side is a remnant of a small watercourse that once connected the plot to the Foudering. A long high hedge forms the boundary on the west side with Grote Buren and the waterway there. Between garden and church ring a second half 19th-century wrought iron RAILING with cast-iron ornamental finials (fleur de lis). The front garden connects symmetrically to the house and consists of two narrow grass beds on either side of the access path. Adjacent to this at street side two narrow rose beds (on the right a rhododendron). Between house and lawn a gravel path; along the house low planting. Behind the house (south side) lies the more enclosed garden with in the middle an orchard with about eight fruit trees (apple, pear and walnut) and, beside the outbuilding, a purple-red beech (approximately 150 years old; listed in the Register of monumental trees in the Netherlands). On the east side lies a kidney-shaped pond. In the garden the upward slope of the terp in the direction of the church is clearly perceptible.

NB. The garden is protected primarily because of its sober but shaded character and because of the unity it forms with the rectory. Furthermore, it, together with the adjacent green spaces of the churchyard and municipal park, is of great importance for the perception of the protected townscape Wergea.

MORTUARY CHAPEL

On the rectory grounds, on the property boundary, stands the mortuary chapel from 1878. Rectangular building, built of plastered brickwork and covered by a gabled roof tiled with blue tiles with cut bargeboards. Double wooden doors at the front (triangular fanlight with radiating wooden infill); door with fanlight at the rear; floor of yellow brick. The mortuary chapel has been recently restored.

NB. The mortuary chapel is protected primarily because of the functional relationship with church and rectory as well as because of the significance for the entire ecclesiastical ensemble.

VALUATION

RESIDENCE (former rectory) with GARDEN, RAILINGS and MORTUARY CHAPEL, from 1878, of general architectural and cultural-historical importance:

- because of their age;

- because of the architectural-historical value of the former rectory and the relatively high degree of authenticity of its interior and exterior;

- because of the recognisable functional relationship between the components;

- because of their recognisable typology;

- because of their relationship with the church opposite;

- because of their importance for the historical-functional and visual-spatial perception of the protected townscape Wergea;

- because of their architecturally prominent location within the protected townscape Wergea, opposite the Reformed church with churchyard and near the intersection of through roads and the waterway.