Bijgebouwen, Noodweg 2

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Description

Cluster 501.

NEW HOLLANDIC WATERLINE

Introduction

DEFENSIBLE FORT KEEPER'S DWELLING, at the entrance to the fort, within the moat. Because most forts and other defensive works (located outside built-up areas) - when there was no mobilisation or exercises - had no garrison of military personnel, in many cases there was a separate dwelling or other accommodation for a manager or keeper. Sometimes such a dwelling or accommodation also had another function, such as that of a bridge or sluice keeper's dwelling. In some cases the dwelling could be furnished for defence. With regard to the location of a keeper's dwelling there were no uniform standards; sometimes they were located on the fort grounds itself - within the moat - but sometimes also outside it, but almost always on the gorge side of the fort. The building materials used also vary; mostly brick or wood was used. The fort keeper's dwelling of Fort Everdingen is located within the moat and is constructed in brick under a gabled roof. Various, relatively recent alterations: in both roof slopes 'Velux windows' and in various frames aluminium windows with double glazing. The original interior has been partly lost at least several decades ago and replaced by an interior with little valuable materials.

Description

The DEFENSIBLE FORT KEEPER'S DWELLING (1880) of Fort Everdingen is located on the right side of the access road to the fort situated on the gorge side, just within the moat and at the foot of the embankment - the dam which formed and forms the access at that location. The brick dwelling is a single-storey structure on a rectangular floor plan, covered by a gabled roof laid with weathered, (newly) improved hollow tiles. In relation to its function as a defensible fort keeper's dwelling, the walls are in places 78 cm thick; at the windows 33 cm; the windows could be used as gun slits. The gutter is supported by slightly projecting stones. The long facade facing the embankment/access road (north facade) contains three arched window openings placed asymmetrically. High up in the roof slope above it, two brick chimneys. The opposite, symmetrical long facade (main facade) has five bays, the central one containing an arched entrance that still has the original frame. The facade is enlivened by means of alternating yellow and red brick around the facade openings, as well as by the use of spared areas and pilasters. At least part of the contrast of red and yellow brick was achieved by the application of false mortar joints on coloured lime mortar. The western gable facade, which is entirely covered with cement plaster, contains an arched entrance with mutually different windows on either side. Against the opposite gable facade a wooden shed has been built which is of minor monumental importance; the upper part of this facade is plastered. Both gable facades contain a window in the upper gable. The interior layout and a number of frames were preserved and the stairs to the loft storey were also retained.

Valuation:

The DEFENSIBLE FORT KEEPER'S DWELLING of Fort Everdingen is of general importance because of:

* Cultural-historical values as part of the New Hollandic Waterline as designed by C.R.T. Kraijenhoff and initially from 1815 realised by him, Jan Blanken and major-engineer Willem Offerhaus and subsequently by others for approximately 125 years strengthened and improved.

* Architectural-historical values, in particular as an expression of building construction related to military-strategic building practice, which is based on: a. the system of inundation and access defence (19th century), b. the race with increasingly strengthened offensive means (19th century).

This concerns a component from the period 1871-1886, namely a single-storey, defensible, brick service dwelling from 1880.

* Ensemble value and situational values as part of the New Hollandic Waterline. Also because of the functional and physical coherence with the other components of the complex and because of the characteristic location on the gorge side of the fort.

* The component is representative because it is an example of a defensible service dwelling furnished on a defensive work.

* The component is reasonably well preserved because the main form and building technical detailing as well as various components have remained intact.