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28  INTRODUCING THE NE THERLANDS

Farmhouses and Windmills

In the mainly flat landscape of the Netherlands,
farmhouses always stand in the shelter of trees.
Windmills, on the other hand, needing as much wind
as they can get, usually stand in very exposed areas.
Both are highly valued because they are so picturesque,
and it is easy to forget that they actually belong in the
category of functional architecture. How a windmill In the farmhouses of North Holland,
works is explained on page 183. the barn, threshing-floor and house
are all under one pyramidal roof.
This Drenthe
farmhouse is a
modern version of The inner yard of the
what has been known Zuid Limburg farmhouse
since the Middle once teemed with
Ages as a los hoes animal life.
(detached house).

Main house Cattle shed

The Zuid Limburg
Farmhouses
The traditional
farmhouses of Zuid
Limburg have a
distinctive inner yard,
enclosed by the house
and farm buildings.
In the inner yard,
ducks, chickens
and pigs once The gateway The walls are
roamed, rummaging is large enough made of marl
in the dunghill. The to let in a horse and covered
picture may have been and wagon. in plaster.
lively but was not
particularly hygienic.
The krukhuis is a hall-type
house, distinguished
by the main house
being at right angles
to the barn.
The hallenhuis
has a low-hanging
roof held up by uprights
kept in position by cross-beams.
The side walls are half-timbered.
The kop-hals-
romp
farmhouse Langgevel (long-gable)
is found farmhouses are common on
mainly in the sandy ground of Peel
Friesland. and Kempen. In this
In this type type of farmhouse,
of farmhouse, the living
the long, oblong accommodation
barn is separated from and farm
the mainhouse by a small, buildings are
intermediate building. arranged in a row.

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