Militair verblijfsgebouw, Zeven Provinciën 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1 stands freestanding, against a background of tall trees, with the roof ridge oriented north-south, to the east of building 3, in the northeast corner of a ring road around a large rectangular open area on the camp 'Zeven Provinciën'. Building 1 is a military dwelling created in 1941-1942 as a 'Regelbau', is at meso level part of two complexes of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric pattern and at micro level forms part of (originally seven) now five military dwellings arranged in two short linear configurations and virtually identical. The building is in a neglected state.

Description

Belowground-cellar level, single-storey, in approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, executed up to the string course with plinth MILITARY DWELLING on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof with grey corrugated newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles laid between pointed gables, with in the eastern roof slope the window strip of an elongated roof dormer and in the western slope a small roof dormer with pediment. The northern end gable / main gable has on ground level light wells for the cellar and on the ground floor three rectangular window openings under string course, provided with concrete lintel, with below the lintel double timber casement windows divided into four panes opening inward and with green and white moulding-motif painted sheet metal shutters, and above the lintel sash windows with glazing bars divided into eight panes. On attic floor level three slightly arched windows under cock's comb, with double casement windows divided into four panes. The southern end gable comparably executed, but with two windows on the ground floor and between them an iron pipe ladder to attic floor level. The western long gable has on the left a rectangular window opening under string course, provided with concrete lintel, with below the lintel double timber casement windows divided into four panes opening inward and with green and white moulding-motif painted sheet metal shutters, and above the lintel a sash window with glazing bars divided into eight panes. On the right a slightly arched and provided with a step entrance opening under cock's comb, flanked by two small window openings, wherein a sash glass door with glazing bars divided into eight panes and a fanlight with a simple, riveted iron ornamental piece. The eastern long gable with two comparable window openings and between them a - presumably instead of a third window - later added and slightly arched wide entrance opening, wherein with glazing bars divided into eight panes double garden doors. Box gutters and white-painted wind vanes. The interior has been substantially altered, among other things by the removal of some internal walls. Concrete floor and ceiling. The building is severely neglected.

Valuation

MILITARY DWELLING, of general importance as a well-recognizable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by reason of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be evident among other things from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created 'ad hoc structure' and the camouflage carried through to the level of detail, from the coherence with and of the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied in this.