Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 24 stands detached between numbers 23 and 25, on the eastern side of the western of the two north-south running roads at Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented east-west and stands perpendicular to the road. Building 24 is a boiler house created in 1940-1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear arrangement and partly in village-green arrangement, and within this at micro level of an ensemble of buildings placed in loose linear arrangement. The boiler house was built as a vital component of the central heating system for part of Groot-Heidekamp and - although based on a modern installation - still functions. It also served as a bathhouse.

Description

Single-storey, partly with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, and partly executed with floor at cellar level, brick BOILER HOUSE on substantially rectangular plan, with concrete foundations and for the main volume covered by a gabled roof arched on two sides, laid with corrugated grey improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with brick chimney and ventilation flue in the ridge and two modern flue channels in the long gable ends. To the left of centre on the northern long gable a presumed lower extension created in a second building phase under an adjoining hipped roof. The western gable end / main gable symmetrical with arched access opening under cock's comb, containing double wooden doors and at attic storey level a small window with four-pane frame. Left side gable executed with three times three relatively small windows with four-pane frames and between the first and second group of three from the left the extension. Thumbstones at the window frames. Extension with in each of the three gables three arched gable openings under cock's comb, without frames. The middle one in the northern gable is an access opening with external wooden sliding door, executed as a louvered door; the others contain mostly undivided arched panes of wired glass. East gable symmetrical and provided with possibly later introduced or modified access opening under concrete lintel and provided with relatively modern divided glass doors and left and right a window with undivided frame; at attic storey level two relatively small windows with four-pane frames. Along the gable grilles of cellar lights. Southern long gable with comparable window openings as those in the north gable and approximately halfway an access opening with relatively modern door. White-painted wind braces; box gutters. Interior is partly modernised and contains a modern heating installation. Walls and ceiling whitewashed; iron staircase construction to cellar floor level, ochre-coloured floor tiles.

Valuation

BOILER HOUSE, of general importance as a readily recognisable and functional component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, urban planning, historical-technical, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated among others in the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, in the components and details characteristic of the building period, in the technical-functional characteristics, in the artificially created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, in the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and in the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.