Marchiennegoed Farm

* Sint-Corynstraat No. 2. Historical farm known as "HET MARCHIENNEGOED". Until the French period (1795-1815), it was a 'uithoeve', owned by the North French Benedictine Abbey of Marchiennes on the Scarpe. The farmhouse was protected as a monument, the spacious surroundings as a village view by M.B. of 23.11.1994. The site probably originated from the tithe barn of the aforementioned abbey, which has been mentioned in sources since 1140 (cf. A. Verhulst). The "Marchiennegoed" is indicated on the Ferraris map (1770-1778) as "'t Marchienne goet" with four separate components around the rectangular farmyard and a similar wall. During the French period, the property of various abbeys was nationalized and sold. The "Marchiennegoed" was sold as a nationalized property by the "Administration centrale du département de la Lys" in the period 1795-1800. The deed describes the farm as follows: "provenans de la cidevant abbaye de Marchienne (...) lesquels Biens consistent: en une ferme et soixante six mesures soixante onze verges de terre et verges pâturage, labour et bois divisée comme suit savoir 1° (list of lands) aboutissant (à) l'est le chemin appelé St. Coryns straete, nord les frères Destrickes (...), ouest Destickere et les terres nationales provenant de l'abbaye de Clairmarais(...) Sur cette partie se trouvent les bâtiments suivants. Une habitation très spacieuse, nouvellement construite en briques et dans le meilleur état. Une grange, écurie et des étables en bois également en bon état. Ces différents bâtiments sont en bon état et forment un enclos entouré en partie (par) un fossé rempli d'eau." Articles 2 to 14 also list the land that belonged to the farm. The farm is eventually sold to "citoyen" Ch. L. Eugene Delva, who already owned adjacent plots. On the primitive cadastral plan (ca. 1835), the farm is indicated with four components, of which only the utility building to the east of the yard has been demolished since ca. 1928 (possibly the burned-out cart shed). The surrounding wall around the farm and the watering pond on the street do not differ from the indication on the current cadastral map. On the Atlas of Neighbourhood Roads (ca. 1843), the farm is designated as "Ferme Delva" referring to the farmer who bought the farm as a black property. The current layout and floor plan of the farmhouse, the barn and the stables, and also of the surrounding wall and the watering pond thus minimally date back to the Ferraris map and the primitive cadastral plan (ca. 1835). Description of the farm buildings. It concerns a well-preserved 18th-century walled farm with separate low components under overhanging gable roofs on wooden modillons and covered with corrugated iron to replace the original thatch; U-shaped clustered (originally square: a fire destroyed the cart shed on the east side) around a grazed yard. To the east, a short unpaved driveway lined with willows and to the south a drinking place and a candled lime tree. Behind the farmhouse and within the U-shaped walled enclosure lined with willows: vegetable garden with orchard. In the grazed yard, the wide brick sidewalks on their side around the house, the transverse barn and the stables are preserved. The manure pit is elaborated with a wall made of concrete blocks. To the west of the yard, a long farmhouse (protected as a monument by M.B. of 23.11.1994). Anchored yellow brick construction of two stable bays, eight bays, and four upper room bays under a continuous gable roof; year anchors "1749" (right) and "1750" (left) in the side walls with "LDM" beneath. Under the upper room: barred rectangular cellar openings with wooden lintel and stretch. Rectangular window openings with recessed frame constructions on abatement with drip lists. Window constructs with preserved hinges and locks. Wooden monastery windows with small divided sections; sliding windows; lower section with shutters; wooden bars for upper and lower sections, respectively on the inside and outside. Other wall openings rectangular with recessed frame constructions in basket arch framing on abatement and drip list at the bottom; at doors water list at the top. The joinery of four right bays is almost intact: wide strips of frame doors with a scrim at the bottom, two-part transom with wooden bars, large pear-shaped doorknob; window constructs identical to those of the upper room. The other four bays with renewed joinery. Two stable bays with basket arch-shaped stable door with wooden gate and rectangular window opening with barred monastery window in basket arch framing on abatement and bottom drip list. The overhanging roof edge rests on nicely profiled wooden modillons. Two dormer windows with anchored gable tops and recessed barred cross windows break through the voluminous roof. More closed rear facade with additional upper room. Air holes at the level of the stable. Furthermore, similar wall openings as at the yard facade; preserved stained glass in transom and lower sections of frame door and upper room window. Side gable walls with profiled top piece, wall weaving, mentioned year anchors and wooden monastery windows. Left side gable with recently added privy. Interesting and fairly well-preserved interior with, among other things, large fireplace (partially bricked), main beams with profiled beam stops dated "1750", original doors with preserved hinges and locks, and wooden staircase. Large attic under king post roof with three pairs of angled trusses. To the north of the yard, an adapted stable wing with a more recent shed section on the left under a gable roof with mechanical tiles (possibly from the 1920s and corresponding with the mutation sketch of 1928). On the right, older section under a gable roof with red corrugated iron and overhanging roof edge on struts. In the yard and rear facade remains of style and railwork - possibly recovery of older material - with horizontal wooden cladding. The brick fillings possibly indicate a process of solidification of a framework construction. Eastern side wall in yellow brick with gable wall with horizontal wooden cladding. To the south of the yard, a double transverse barn from 1779 (cf. dating in the side walls), situated under a steep gable roof (black corrugated iron) with wide roof overhang on wooden modillons. Long facades in style and rail work (numbered styles) with horizontal wooden cladding above a brick footing. The panels are partially solidified with concrete blocks on the yard side, with brick on the rear facade, which together with ventilation holes in the styles indicates an earlier framework construction. Two rectangular barn doors, of which the right one is bricked up. The two right bays contain an incorporated stable. Anchored brick side gable walls with central, upwardly narrowing support column. In the left side gable, the support column rises almost to the roof height, flanked at the top by two owl holes and the wall anchors "1779". The support column of the right side gable rises less high. In the top of the right facade, the year "1779" is set in bright red protruding brick, embedded in a heart-shaped mason's mark in similar brick, above which is an owl hole. In this right side gable, three basket arch doors (one of which is bricked up) and one (more recent) framed door, green-painted woodwork. Presumably, these side gables were originally elaborated with crow's feet (possibly removed when laying the corrugated iron, but no traces of weavings), the right side gable preserves partially shoulder pieces with profiled brick neck stones. Preserved roof of trusses and ridge trusses. The right stable bays are covered with so-called "diltepersen". The posts at the level of the first barn passage preserve traces (holes) of the original threshing walls and cross braces. DEPARTMENT ROHM WEST FLANDERS, Monuments and Landscapes Cell, archive no. 671. CADASTRAL ARCHIVE WEST FLANDERS IN BRUGES, primitive parcel plan. CADASTRAL ARCHIVE WEST FLANDERS IN BRUGES, mutation sketches no. 207, sketch no. 1928. STATE ARCHIVE BRUGES, French Fund, poster letters bundle 626 (district Ieper), poster letter no. 43. LAMPAERT R., Reninge under fire, Koksijde, 2002, p. 173. (photo of the farmhouse during World War I, still with thatched roof) VANDEPUTTE O. (ed.), Guide to Flanders. Tourist and cultural guide to the Flemish municipalities, Tielt, 1995. VERHULST A., Woesten a village foundation of Diederik van de Elzas, Count of Flanders (1161), in Proceedings of the Society for History, vol. 128, 1991, pp. 47-62.

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