Café The Beer Cart

In 1598 mentioned under the name "De Biekorff", later an inn and from 1731 to 1745 premises for the archers of the St. Quentin guild. Corner building consisting of two intimately connected construction volumes, the oldest of which is located on Naamsestraat, with an anchored facade of two floors and five bays and a side facade with windows under a steep gable roof. In the first half of the 19th century, a taller brick section was erected on Parkstraat, against the oldest volume, one bay deep with an originally plastered horizontal facade of five bays and three floors under a slate gable roof. Characteristic here are the partially sandstone executed storefront, the slightly arched windows with sandstone corner and relieving blocks, the hardstone sill courses worked as a cordon, and the cornice on modillions. Both facades have been repeatedly modified, among other things by changes in the order (1842, 1851, 1929), by plaster removal and the application of cutting joints on the facade on Parkstraat in 1902, and simultaneously the cementing of the facade on Naamsestraat. The adjacent new construction on Naamsestraat likely replaces an originally associated gate or gate building which the windows in the side facade overlooked.

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