Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 76 stands free-standing against a wooded backdrop, to the east of number 77, on the northern side of the southernmost, approximately east-west running road of Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented north-south and is perpendicular to the road. Building 76 is a military barrack constructed as a 'Regelbau' in 1940-1941 and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a village-green-like configuration, and within this at micro level part of a cluster of somewhat peripherally located buildings.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large, with approximately 50 cm thick outer masonry and partly constructed with a crawl space, brick MILITARY BARRACK on a rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof with corrugated grey swift-laying tiles, slightly splayed at the bottom, between pointed gables and with four brick chimneys in the roof ridge. In the southern end gable / main gable on the left an entrance opening beneath a cock's-comb, with two steps and fitted with a lattice door with substantial hinges and a fanlight divided into four parts. To the right of this two window openings beneath a cock's-comb and with concrete cill, with above four-pane casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, beneath the cill fitted with sheet-metal shutters bearing a green and white painted hourglass motif. On the attic storey level two small rectangular windows beneath a cock's-comb, with casement windows in four-pane glazing. Northern end gable with on the left and right a window opening beneath a cock's-comb and with concrete cill, with above four-pane casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, beneath the cill fitted with sheet-metal shutters bearing a green and white painted hourglass motif, and centrally a bricked-up entrance opening. On the attic storey level two small rectangular windows beneath a cock's-comb, with casement windows in four-pane glazing. In both long sides three times two window openings with concrete cill, with above four-pane casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, beneath the cill fitted with sheet-metal shutters bearing a green and white painted hourglass motif. Gutter boards and white painted wind vanes. The interior is largely modernised. Behind later-added panelling a staircase characteristic of the building period. On the attic floor eight flue channels are united into four brick chimneys. The roof is supported by a wooden rafter and tie-beam truss, fitted with later sheeting.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACK, of general importance as a readily recognisable component part of a military camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by virtue of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may in particular be evidenced by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, by the coherence with and within the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.