Kwakkelstein

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Commercial premises composed of various building volumes with office, warehouse, residential storey above and bollard belonging to the firm W. Kwakkelstein, principal component of the complex of the same name. The composite building has a long history dating back to 1737 when Cornelis Langstraten had the warehouse with residential house built. Through various inheritances, sales and exchanges the warehouse annex residential house with yard and garden came in 1856 into the hands of Corstiaan and Gerrit van Dusseldorp, who had the building renewed in 1857. In 1895 the gentlemen Willem and Machiel Kwakkelstein and Mr Hendrik Doelman purchased the building from Willem Jacobus van Dusseldorp. In 1896 the interior masonry and plasterwork of the building was renewed by the Vlaardingen carpenters the Brothers Kijne and it received its present eclectic appearance.

N.B. The building has undergone a number of alterations over the years, particularly changes in the interior. The windows on the first storey were formerly provided with wooden shutters.

Description

The commercial premises, constructed largely in Ijssel brick on a composite floor plan, is located in the building line of the Westhavenkade and has on the left a spout gable three window axes wide and on the right a cornice-topped facade of two window axes. The building is partially cellared and comprises two storeys and a high roof space under a hipped roof rising on the left over the building wall, which comes out as a pointed gable slightly above the roof of the adjacent building. Behind the spout gable is a gabled roof to the front splay. The roof is covered with red hollow tiles. Since the building was built on the dyke slope it is somewhat higher on the rear, where it has an additional basement storey. The facade above a high grey-painted plinth is provided with white plasterwork with false joints. The frames of the (sash) windows and doors are of wood and provided with natural stone window sills. The entrance, reached via a natural stone stoep, is located in the middle of the left building volume and consists of a wooden door with six cassettes and a two-part fanlight. The door is flanked by two tall sash windows with six-part glazing bars. The storeys have in the middle a hoist bay with double loading doors provided with cross windows and wooden cassettes. These are flanked by sash windows with cross-shaped glazing bars, asymmetrically placed on the first storey. In the ridge is an iron ventilation grill. The spout of the facade is covered by a moulding which ends in an aedicula-like crown at the top. The lower right building volume has a double wooden gate at the far right which via an underpassage provides access via a slope paved with red bricks to the rear business premises. Furthermore the ground floor is entirely occupied by a large wooden shopfront consisting of a large three-part window with corresponding fanlights provided with leaded glass on which in blue capitals the firm name W. KWAKKELSTEIN, HARINGHANDEL is applied and a narrower window with corresponding fanlight. The windows are flanked by fluted pilasters and are crowned by a profiled cornice with guttae. On the storey are two sash windows with cross-shaped glazing bars. The facade of this building volume is terminated by a broad profiled cornice with gutter. The building volume with the spout gable continues to the rear with a rectangular building volume with a basement, two storeys and a roof space under a tile-covered gabled roof. The freely-situated northern facade here has three window axes and at the end a hoist bay with wooden loading doors on the first storey and, higher up, in the roof space. The basement has at the far right a small wooden door; the ground floor has three tall sash windows; the first storey three small windows. The wholly plastered facade is provided between the storeys with iron wall anchors. The rear facade is likewise a spout gable and except for the two windows in the roof space and the iron ventilation grill in the ridge, entirely blank. Along the roof line are wall anchors. The building volume with the cornice-topped facade extends less deep and has likewise a white plastered (spout) gable on the rear. In this are located on the right a door providing access to the basement and on the left two coupled windows with fanlights. On the first storey on the right a tall two-part window with fanlight and in the ridge a window with fanlight. Along the roof line are iron wall anchors. In the interior, as far as still original, the wooden roof truss structure and the (oak) wooden beams and floors of the various storeys are of particular importance. In the cellar the masonry barrel vaults and the tiled floor are of importance. Before the facade was originally a natural stone stoep conforming to the neighbouring building (number 69), of which only the natural stone grave slabs and before the shopfront two octagonal concrete bollards remain.

Valuation

Eighteenth- and largely nineteenth-century commercial building composed of various building volumes belonging to herring merchant W. Kwakkelstein, of general importance for its typological value as an example of a merchants' office/warehouse and for its architectural and cultural-historical value as a reminder of the Vlaardingen herring trade, as principal component of the Kwakkelstein complex also of importance for its ensemble value with other complex components and of importance for its townscape value with the other (ware)house building along the Westhavenkade and for its situation at the harbour, connected with the development of the city.