Guildhouse Café and Party Hall

Café with a party hall called "Gildenhuis" built in 1929 (according to the land registry archive, a newly registered building of the Society of Cooperative Savings and Loan Guild of Denderbelle in 1929). Was used by the Royal Theatre Guild Saint Joseph founded in 1868. An ensemble that is typologically illustrative of the average local leisure infrastructure that was available in many small centers in the first half of the 20th century. The façade of the café and the gable with the entrance to the adjacent hall are architecturally conceived as a cohesive whole. Café of two building levels and two bays with artificial slate gable roof. Whitewashed brick list façade, of which the open café front shows a renewed facing. Upper floor with decorative masonry on the piers and semicircular spandrels that emphasize the inscribed windows. Laterally connected rectangular party hall under an artificial slate gable roof. Also a whitewashed brick gable façade as the front façade. Gable top overhanging on a symmetrical arch frieze with inscribed attic windows and a central niche at the top. Long plastered panel above the front with the inscription "Catholic Gildenhuis Saint Joseph" (according to an old photo), now "Gildenhuis".

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