Boerderij(M1), Leon Biessenstraat 73

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1

Farmhouse with a U-shaped floor plan. The short, enclosed side of the U contains the residential section and forms the left part of the farmhouse. The long wing on the side of the Rukkerweg accommodates a stable plus a large barn and ends with a gable at Sinaïstraat. According to the date stone built into the long facade on the Rukkerweg side, the farmhouse dates from 1777. The facade on the Rukkerweg is laid out with two wooden, large double carriage-way doors with between and beside them on the ground floor an arched window, the same window entirely on the left with natural stone framing. On the left, in the residential section a cemented plinth has been applied and directly under the eaves two small square windows with natural stone surrounds have been placed. The end gable shows disturbed brickwork on this (left) side and the possible start of a brick arch. Far right in the facade on the Rukkerweg, above the arched window, a shutter has been placed. The end gable on the side of Sinaïstraat is blind except for a small square window in the gable peak. The wall anchors have a double scroll design at the top and bottom, elsewhere also S-shaped anchors, including in the gateway arch. The gabled roof of the farmhouse is covered with grey, old Dutch roof tiles, noting that the residential house has partly red and partly grey old Dutch roof tiles. The residential house is accessible via the farmyard. The courtyard facade of the residential house contains the front door and to the left of it a square, pierced window with glazing bars and 9 panes, to the right a double casement window with 6 panes; cellar window to the left of the front door; two small casement windows with 4 panes on the first floor. Internally including a brick-vaulted cellar (barrel vault) with brick stairs, salt tank, chute and stone floor; privy with wooden seat and lid; panelled doors with old iron fittings; wooden stairs and small staircase; old layout and simple wooden roof truss structure with straw dummies have been preserved. The business wing on the Rukkerweg side has immediately to the right after the gateway passage a recessed corner with two doors and a bull's-eye window and further on the courtyard side a layout with two wooden doors providing access to the horse stable and the hay barn, double carriage-way doors and another small square window. On the Sinaïstraat side the roof has been partly extended for the benefit of a low extension. Internally including a horse stable with natural stone feed trough and wooden manger, 2 iron tethering rings, unboarded roof, 2 A-shaped trusses with collar ties of which one modified, wooden loft floor above the through passage. Through passage paved with clinker bricks. The second business wing stands parallel to and opposite the wing on the Rukkerweg side. This wing is shorter than the first; the courtyard facade is laid out with three wooden doors of which 2 under a brick relieving arch (with between them a small virtually square window) while the third door (in the corner with the residential wing) provides access to the sanitary facilities. Next to this door is a small square window, above the middle door a wooden shutter has been placed. In the roof a number of small roof lights have been placed; blind end gable on the side of Sinaïstraat; the second long facade is likewise blind. Between both business wings lies a farmyard, which is covered with asphalt. Internally including a floor of marked natural stone blocks (for example with a chiselled X mark and 27a), stone feed trough with iron tethering rings, stalling for small livestock, manure channel, dovecotes in the loft, simple wooden roof truss structure with straw dummies.

Valuation

The farmhouse at the corner of Rukkerweg and Sinaïstraat in Heerlen with in the front facade a date stone in brick "A O 1 7 7 7" represents the general interest on the basis of:

- its age;

- its well-preserved main form, layout, materials and constructions;

- its architectural-historical significance as the monument is a striking representative of a farmhouse with a U-shaped floor plan;

- its rarity;

- its importance for building history as expressed in particular in the building materials used, joints and finishing marks;

- its functional and historical connection to the nearby, likewise legally protected outbuilding from the second half of the 19th century.