Dienstwoning, Wamberg 8

English translation

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Description

Description component 5.

GARDENER'S HOUSE, built in 1899 on behalf of the Van Rijckevorsel family with elements of traditionalism drawing upon the style of Dutch residential houses in the sixteenth century. The dwelling is situated at the beginning of the approach road. The building is partially cellared with one storey and attic floor on a T-shaped ground plan with facades of machine-made bricks laid in Flemish bond under gabled roofs covered with improved Dutch tiles. Hipped roof covered with tiles in the western roof plane. On the north side there is a single-storey kitchen section under a catslip roof covered with tiles. The entrance on the south side has a veranda under a tiled canopy. Straight-closed wooden clamped door with grooved oak boards. Beside the entrance there is a sandstone commemorative stone with the inscription: "René van Rijckevorsel 1899". In the projecting section with timber framing provided stepped gable there is a straight-closed window with cross window, frames with glazing bars and underluiken. The arch drum is ornamented with polychrome decorative brickwork. Above this there is in a semicircular niche a narrow attic window with hoist shutter. West facade with on the ground floor likewise a cross window with shutters. Striking, green painted wooden panelling with trefoil forms on the attic storey facade. The east facade has several straight-closed windows with glazing-bar frames and windows with cross windows. In the roof plane there is a roof dormer with beside it two small roof windows. The rear facade has in the plane with the stepped gable an attached door and an above-lying loading hatch. Beside this is the single-storey kitchen section.

Interiorly, the layout on the ground floor has been altered somewhat. The wall of the original corridor has been removed so that one enters directly into the large living room via the entrance. Against the rear wall here there is a stone chimney ornamented with shield-bearing angels, family coats of arms and rosettes in sixteenth-century style. The rear wall of the chimney is tiled with green and yellow (the colours of the Van Rijckevorsel family) glazed tiles. The room has a lowered ceiling; above this the original beam ceiling still lies concealed. On the right side there is a spacious room with a chimney of black soapstone. The beam ceiling has been exposed here again. On the rear side there is the low kitchen section which otherwise contains no special elements. The cellar on the right side of this has a rectangular ground plan and is provided with barrel vaults on iron beams. On the rear side there is a section that serves mainly for storage and where hay was formerly kept on the attic. The house has a wooden staircase with a small, open upper room. Under the stairs two spice cupboards have been placed. The rooms on the attic floor contain otherwise no special elements. In the building the windows with the elegantly worked oak cross windows and also the doors with attached grooved oak boards and the associated hinges and closing mechanisms have been almost entirely preserved. The roof covering originally consisting of red slate tiles has been replaced by the current improved Dutch tiles.

Valuation

The GARDENER'S HOUSE is of general importance because of its cultural-historical values as a particular expression of the administrative and typological development of the service dwelling associated with large estates. The gardener's house has architectural-historical values because of the high quality of the applied traditionalist stylistic elements, as a rare example of the reuse of older building elements and the ornamentation of both the chimney and the cross windows. The object has ensemble values as an essential component of the estate "De Wamberg" and is of importance because of the rarity of such well-preserved service dwellings.