Hoeve Ten Broecke

Present farmyard to the north and east described by Molenbeek with bank bordered by poplars. Partly paved yard with access on the open east side. To the north-west, axial to the farmhouse, brick entrance gate covered by tiled gable roof. Full basement detached house from 1844, enlargement with elevation and widening of a house built in 1729; the latter partly on older cellars (XVI-XVII) and some of which have been preserved cellar spaces on the street side. Rising masonry from the previous smaller house from XVIII b may have been preserved in the street façade; traces of a smaller side gable with braiding in the North-East side gable also bear witness to the older core. Double house of nine bays and one and a half storeys, under a gable roof; tiles instead of former straw covering, on rear roof shield since 1911 (confer year 1911 laid in black tiles), on front roof shield since 1935. Remains of iron skeleton of bell tower on the roof ridge. Analogous street and yard façade, namely frame façade with shuttered rectangular lower windows on bluestone sill, basement windows with bluestone lintel and semicircular upper windows under the stepped cornice. An external cellar staircase with shutters in both extreme bays of the yard façade, respectively access to the beet cellar on the left and the cellar with two ovens on the right. Identical neoclassical bluestone door surrounds characterized by pilaster shaped right teeth on neutes under lintel with cornice; Same fanlight in both doors with central arrow motif in geometric iron tracery. Stone plaque on either side of the yard façade door with inscription "ANNO 1844", on the left with mention of the then tenant Joannes Ronse and on the right of the owner and builder C. de Kerchove de Denterghem from Ghent. Weathered bluestone facing brick above door in street façade. Natural stone interior cellar stairs provide access to three of the five vaulted house cellars, namely large cellar and two adjoining narrow parallel cellars with a barred window in their dividing wall. Retained red square tiled floor in the "best room"; chimney bosom with neoclassical stucco decoration typical of mid XIX. Living room with wide fireplace of sintered bricks; Incorporated beautiful fireplace plate with the year 1622.

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