Werk-woonhuis, Bakkerstraat 24

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Originally a medieval house with neck gable in early Late Gothic form (mid-18th century), provided with richly sculpted claw ornaments and crowning with rocaille motifs.

Of the medieval house, parts of the side and rear facades remain (15th century). Various old interior elements, such as roof truss structure, windows and doors (mid-18th century). Partly 17th-century rear house with roof and floor beams.

As evidenced by the side and rear facades still entirely laid in medieval brick (format 26-28x6-7x13 cm), the house originally dates from the 15th century and underwent a major renovation around 1750. Hereby a new front facade with a richly executed neck gable was added. The roof truss structure was also renewed and modernizations took place in the interior (windows, doors, ceilings). Recently executed renovation of shop front according to old finds from around 1900. The 17th-century rear house, now drawn into the shop space by the roofing over of the former courtyard, served as a bakery. In 1752 the municipal master builder Hendrik Viervant (1718-1775) came into possession of this house. It is quite possible that the then still young architect designed the fine front facade.

Description

The house is situated on the eastern side of Bakkerstraat, with a narrow alley on its left side. The front house has a rectangular ground plan, two storeys and an attic storey with parapet and gabled roof with the ridge direction perpendicular to the front facade and a hipped end on the rear side. On the roof old Dutch red and smoked tiles and on the ridge two brick chimneys. The front facade has a recently reconstructed shop front. Above this, the facade with neck gable is laid in 18th-century brick in cross bond. On either side of the neck, richly sculpted claw ornaments with curled leaf motifs. The neck is crowned by a moulded shoulder arch with beneath it a fan-shaped rocaille element. The windows have brick lintels and hardstone drip mouldings. In the second storey three windows with beading profile and single-pane sash windows, in the third storey smaller windows with 4-pane windows. In the neck a window with double wooden shutter. The left side facade facing the alley (partly plastered) has medieval masonry (format 26-28x6-7x13 cm, 10 courses = 41 cm). The facade has heavy rod anchors, traces of an enclosed basement light and in the second storey two windows with 6-pane sash windows (internally on either side of smoke channel). Of the rear facade, the second storey remains, likewise laid in medieval brick, with large rod anchors and two 18th-century windows with roll mouldings above and below and 9-pane sash windows.

The originally detached rear house has a rectangular ground plan with slightly bevelled corner facade facing the alley. The building has two storeys and a gabled roof with a hipped end on the west side, old Dutch red tiles and a 17th-century stepped gable with plaiting on the rear side (east side). Plastered facades. The northern facade contains large Y and rod anchors, two windows with multi-pane windows (partly reconstructed) and a window with double shutter.

In the interior of front and rear house, the following are of particular importance: small vaulted cellar under the rear part of the front house, 18th-century roof truss structure on the front house, consisting of 7 deal tie-beam trusses with spiked connections. Various door frames and (panel) doors (18th-19th centuries), simple stucco ceilings (partly with wooden mouldings) in front room of second storey and hallway (18th century). Attic accessible via old wooden staircase.

The roof on the rear house consists of two tie-beam trusses with dowel connections and straight, partly renewed rafters (17th century). The eastern couple has struts to the purlins. Old beam layer visible in first storey.

Valuation

The house with important, largely 18th-century front facade in Late Gothic style and partly medieval framework (15th century), partly 17th-century rear house and various interior elements (cellar, roof truss structures, 18th-century components such as ceilings, doors and windows) has an interesting building history, which is largely legible and of importance for architectural and construction historical scholarship. The house is of general importance due to its architectural and cultural historical value. Furthermore, of urban planning importance because of its situation in the characteristic eastern facade wall of Bakkerstraat, among other national monuments. Furthermore, as part of the original settlement structure (building line, subdivision) of the medieval city centre.