Carriage shed

Gun carriage shed for the storage of guns, built in 1866 within the fortress and naval harbour in Hellevoetsluis. After filling in the ditch on the east side, the shed was located on the Opzoomerlaan. The shed was built at the same time as the wet shooting cotton shed about a hundred meters away in an Eclectic style, in which Neo-Classical style elements predominate. As a result of new construction between the warehouses, the visual relationship between the two buildings has been somewhat disturbed. In the eighties of the twentieth century, during the construction of a mosque in the southern half of the warehouse, a door was added to the west façade. The northern half of the shed is currently used as storage space for the fire brigade museum.

Definition

The elongated gun shed is oriented north-south and borders directly on the west side of the Opzoomerlaan. There is a driveway in front of the north façade, and there are parking spaces along the other facades. The building has a rectangular floor plan and has one storey under a gable roof covered with smothered Dutch tiles. This roof is supported by wrought and cast-iron triangular trusses, which are panelled with planks. The roof section is equipped with simply profiled wooden barge boards and gutters. The red brick facades, which are bricked in a cross connection, are only enlivened by bluestone starting and closing stones, the latter of which has a diamond head. These arched stones are placed in round arches in which double wooden car doors are suspended. In the round-arched saving fields, without bluestone starting and closing stones, windows with cast-iron tilting windows and radial rods have been installed in the arched field. In the end walls there are cast iron round windows with spoke-shaped rods in the top. These facades are equipped with braids along the eaves.

The symmetrical façade (south side) is two bays wide and equipped with double French doors. The top has a round window.

The symmetrical rear façade is identical to the front façade.

The symmetrical left side façade has seventeen bays, all with similarly shaped round arches. In the fifth, ninth and thirteenth bays there are carriage doors, in the other bays there are round-arched windows. The doors in the ninth bay have been changed as a result of the construction of an entrance to the mosque.

The symmetrical right side wall is almost identical to the left side wall. The year 1866 is inscribed on the keystone in the ninth bay.

Appreciation

The gun shed is of general interest because of its cultural-historical, architectural-historical and ensemble value.

- The hangar is of cultural-historical importance because of its special function, as a recognizable and reasonably intact example of a gun carriage shed that is part of a historically important naval port.

- The shed is of architectural-historical value as an example of an eclectic architectural style, in which the combination of brick and Neo-Classical design language is characteristic.

- De loods heeft ensemblewaarde als onderdeel van de vesting Hellevoetsluis, waarin meerdere gebouwen herinneren aan de militaire functie van het gebied. Van belang is tevens de samenhang met de tegelijkertijd gebouwde natte schietkatoenloods.

bron: monumenten.nl