Vaartdijk 86

Spacious offices within walking distance from Mechelen station in a unique historic building.  

Out   Inventory of Architectural Heritage:

So-called " General Workplace Seal ", since 1868 stamp printing. Allegedly former candle factory.

Complicated industrial complex with several brick buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries, the road separated by the current recent P.T.T. buildings.

Main Wing .   from the second or third quarter of the 19th century; front & two euml; twenty-bay & euml n and four floors under gable roof; punctuated worked out by turning chimney as a pilaster strips; Central risalit six-bay ë n marked by bluestone checkered hoeklisenen. Around Arc-shaped bottom windows by solid bluestone imposts. Furthermore, arched windows with bluestone lekdrempels. Wooden cornice. Right construction of five bay ë and n é é n storey flat roof below. Rectangular windows under iron I-beams; bluestone lekdrempels.

Interior : brick trough vaults between the I-sections on cast iron columns, mostly hidden by ceiling appearance. Basement with cross vaults.

Allegedly Kept hand press of interwar labeled " Ideal A. High Forst Leipzig F. n ° 46 . "

Northwest of and parallel to the main wing  . Construction with similar views of bay & euml eight, one and two storeys. Space between two wings built close by later connecting structures and round factory chimney.

Home : cast iron I-beams on I-beams

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Northwest  . Courtyard by northern wing of eight bay & euml n and two floors under saddleback (mechanical pots) from the first half of the 19th century. Empire Tinted arched windows with bluestone imposts on the ground floor; rectangular upper windows with bluestone lekdrempels; basement holes.

Northeast of the main wing .   Wing from the second or third quarter of the 19th century with later modifications; three and sixteen bay & euml n and two floors under gable roof (corrugated iron pans and mechanical). Around Arcuate bottom windows in the north-eastern facade, broad rectangular top windows, under I-beams; arched windows above the east facade. Subsequent construction east.

Home : iron I-beams on cast iron columns

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West Wing .   The first half of the 19th century, four and twelve bay ë n (Vaartdijk side) and two floors under hipped (Flemish pans). West Facade: arched windows above; round arched windows down with bluestone imposts and extended lekdrempels six linkertravee & euml n. Six rechtertravee ë n: ground floor with custom and sealed wall openings; preserved around arcuate skylights with fan-shaped rod distribution.