Fort, vesting en -onderdelen, Nieuwe Steeg bij 74

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Description

Cluster 70.

NEW HOLLAND WATERLINE

Introduction

ARTILLERY SHED with adjoining FORT KEEPER'S DWELLING, building H, as a military and partly civil annex of the Fort at the Nieuwe Steeg. At various locations within and outside fort grounds, over the course of decades wooden, stone and metal ('corrugated iron') sheds have been erected to serve as (provisional or permanent) storage space, storage, accommodation for people or materials, hospital, fire station, horse stable, guardhouse, dwelling, etc. A large part of these sheds has meanwhile deteriorated, been demolished or relocated, but others still exist in situ. Sometimes these are particularly simple structures of small size, but there are also more complex and larger examples.

Because most forts and other (defensive structures 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 type of accommodation for a caretaker or guard. Sometimes such a dwelling or accommodation also had another function, such as that of a lock or bridge keeper's dwelling. In the applied architecture there is consequently no uniformity; the building materials used vary - but are usually brick or wood - and the number of storeys also differs. Regarding the location of a guard's dwelling, there are no clear standards either; some fort keeper's dwellings are located within the fort moat, others outside it - sometimes even at some distance from the fort. At the Fort at the Nieuwe Steeg there stands a wooden shed which combines the functions of military storage and dwelling of fort keeper. The building, dating from around 1880, is located on the gorge side of the fort opposite the entrance and on the north-west side of the double barracks building, approximately in line with its southern wing. The dwelling is a later extension. Upon the change of use of the fort, the artillery shed / fort keeper's dwelling was restored and partly adapted, provided with modern comfort and also further modernised, whereby the north-western gable end was simplified and provided with an entrance with glass doors and the wooden elements were partly removed. The building is painted light green; the doors and shutters dark green and the windows white.

Description

Wooden ARTILLERY SHED (c. 1880) with later (1920/30) added FORT KEEPER'S DWELLING, building H, of approximately 30 x 8 metres, covered by a gabled roof with ample overhang, laid with grey, hollow tiles. Two brick chimneys on and through the roof. On the north side along the entire length an extension under a lean-to roof of a particular type of iron corrugated sheet. There are no roof windows. White-painted, wooden weathervanes. The facades are built up from wooden elements. The south-west long facade is provided with approximately eight windows and/or access openings at unequal distances from each other and irregularly placed, containing non-original sash windows with glazing bars (2 x 4) and wooden shutters. The opposite facade contains comparable in execution, but fewer facade openings. The south-east gable end is provided with double doors and an access in the extension.

Valuation

ARTILLERY SHED with adjoining FORT KEEPER'S DWELLING, building H, of the Fort at the Nieuwe Steeg is of general importance because of:

* Cultural-historical values as part of the New Holland Waterline as designed by C.R.T. Kraijenhoff and initially from 1815 by him, Jan Blanken and Major-engineer Willem Offerhaus, and subsequently by others during approximately 125 years has been reinforced and improved.

* Architectural-historical values in particular as an expression of the military-strategic and associated civil building practice, which is based on: a. the system of inundation and access defence (19th and 20th century).

This concerns a structure from the period 1875-1885, respectively 1920/1930, namely a shed with an adjoining service dwelling.

* Ensemble value and situational values on account of the functional and physical coherence with the other components of the complex.

* The building is representative (characteristic) because it still displays the physical characteristics which were at the time the reason for its construction.

* The building is well-preserved because in terms of structure and physical appearance several principal features of the condition and use in the 1880s and the 1920s/1930s have been preserved in recognisable form.