Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

Residential homes in Westzaan

betekenis & definitie

Most houses are built in wood, some have a richly decorated deposit. Examples of wooden houses with a 17th-century origin are the three-aisled building Zuideinde 139 (1635) and the houses Zuideinde 239 (1648), Weiver 54 (1681), Kerkbuurt 41 (interior details of the 18th century) and Allanstraat 119.

The latter has two angled, largely brick side wings; on a lintel at the right wing a paltro molar is depicted (1685). The late-17th-century wooden house Allanstraat 378 is equipped with a gate and also the 18th-century wooden houses sometimes have a drain, such as Weiver 1 (early 18th century) and Allanstraat 386 (circa 1740). The latter building has a Louis XVI-style door and a cellar with an upstairs room, just like Allanstraat 427. In 1744, the house Allanstraat 382, ​​which was built in 1741, has an entrance frame with pilasters and a dormer window with fronton; the curved corner window dates from 1814. In 1898, this house became the residence of mayor J.J. Allan. A simple facade with window frame in Louis XV forms has the L-shaped wooden house Allanstraat 375 (circa 1740). In the village there are several early 19th-century wooden houses with a swiveled and decorated front in Louis XVI or neoclassical forms. Examples are the houses in the Oranjeboom (Allanstraat 328), Zuideinde 200 (circa 1810) with a sloping entrance in an exit, Kerkbuurt 11 with curved corner windows, and Allanstraat 384 (1825) with a rich rear facade and a back room with early 19th century fireplace and rosette ceiling.

More spacious are some (wooden) middle aisles with dakkapel and entrances, such as the originally still 18th century building Zuideinde 152, the one-storey wooden mansion Zonnewende (Zuideinde 187), and the houses Zuideinde 87 (wide dormer) and Kerkbuurt 6 ( two dormer windows with round windows). The white plastered central corridor Kerkbuurt 19 (1872) is an omm. teachers' home (restored 1993). The nineteenth-century L-shaped two-storey building Kerkbuurt 15 received around 1890 a mansard roof with carved wind springs. Also some more spacious workers' homes from around 1890 have a mansard roof, such as Kerkbuurt 27 and Allanstraat 367. The latter has a dormer in chalet style forms.