Militair verblijfsgebouw, Zeven Provinciën 4

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 4 stands detached against a background of tall trees, with the roof ridge running north-south, to the west of Building 3, in the northwest corner of a ring road around a large rectangular open area on the camp 'Zeven Provinciën'. Building 4 is a military dwelling constructed as a 'Regelbau' in 1941-1942, at meso level forms part of two complexes of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric pattern and at micro level is part of (originally seven) now five military quarters arranged in two short linear groupings, virtually identical. The building is in a neglected state.

Description

Basement, single-storey, in approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, up to the water-moulding with plinth, rendered brick MILITARY DWELLING on a rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof with assorted terracotta-coloured and grey corrugated re-improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, between stepped gables, with in both roof slopes a small roof dormer with pediment. The northern end wall / principal facade has at ground level light shafts for the basement and on the ground floor three rectangular window openings under water-moulding, provided with a concrete sill, with below the sill double four-paned casement windows opening inward and with green and white moulded plate-iron shutters, and above the sill sash windows divided into eight panes by glazing bars. At attic level three slightly arched windows under cock's-comb moulding, with double four-paned casement windows. The southern end wall constructed similarly, but with two windows on the ground floor and between them an iron tube ladder to attic level. The western long wall has on the left a rectangular window opening under water-moulding, provided with concrete sill, with below the sill double four-paned casement windows opening inward and with green and white moulded plate-iron shutters, and above the sill a sash window divided into eight panes by glazing bars. On the right a slightly arched entrance opening flanked by two small windows and provided with a step under cock's-comb moulding, containing a door with eight panes divided by glazing bars and a fanlight with a simple, riveted iron decorative piece. The eastern long wall has three similar window openings. Gutters and white-painted weathervanes. The interior is presumably only minimally altered. Yellow tilework. Concrete floor and ceiling. The building is somewhat neglected and is not accessible.

Valuation

MILITARY DWELLING, of general importance as a readily recognizable 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, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia through the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, through the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, through the artificially created 'ad hoc structure' and the camouflage carried through to the finest details, through the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.