NHW-Lunet II

English translation

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Description

Introduction

WOODEN STORAGE SHED (f2) on Lunet II, located to the right beyond the access bridge, as non-bombproof storage for equipment. In various locations within and outside fort grounds, wooden, stone and metal ('tin') sheds have been erected over the decades to serve as (provisional or permanent) storage space, storage, accommodation for military personnel or equipment, hospital, fire station, horse stable, guard house, 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 dimensions, but there are also more complex and larger examples. A wooden shed built at the end of the 19th century on Lunet II still exists. The shed was presumably intended for the storage of equipment. In more recent times the shed has been designated for office and storage purposes. The interior has been adapted accordingly, but the exterior is in large measure original; the shed was relatively recently restored and was then painted brown, with ox-blood red for the [text incomplete in source]. In this process several facade openings were unobtrusively modernised. Small modern skylights were then incorporated in both roof planes, while ventilation ducts were also brought through the tiles. Previously existing weather vanes on the gable tops have disappeared.

Description

WOODEN SHED (f2) (1895), on a brick plinth and beneath a gabled roof oriented from northeast to southwest, covered with dampened hollow tiles. Overhang with gutters and wind braces at the gable ends. The shed measures approximately 20 x 8 m. The facades are executed with horizontally placed wooden board-and-batten cladding. In both long facades there are window openings on the left and right (with later? shutters closed) and between these are double access doors. Both gable ends contain on the ground floor double, clamped wooden doors and at loft level smaller, comparable examples.

Valuation

The WOODEN SHED (f2) on Lunet II is of general importance because of:

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

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

This concerns here a component dating from the end of the 19th century, namely a wooden storage shed from 1895.

* Ensemble value and situational values as part of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie. Also because of the functional and physical coherence with the other components of the complex.

* The component is representative because it is an example of an authentic wooden storage shed installed on a defensive work.

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