FJÆRPLASSEN GNR. 60/3/4/5
This picture was taken in September, 2005 when we visited
Flærplassen. You can see Trøndheim fjord in the
background. In an earlier time this house was even closer to the
fjord. The wind off the fjord was quite strong and you wonder
what it was like living in an un-insulated house like this in January
or February. Notice that I am standing in a concrete trough that
is on 3 sides of the house. We didn't ask, but assume the trough
carries rain away from the building, much like when you dig a 3-sided
trench around a tent when you are camping.
See a more complete description at the bottom of this page.
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You can see the old farm house
just between the barn and a more modern building on the right with the fjord in
the background
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The owner--far right.
The
owner's brother and wife on the left.
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With my cousin Mary Iwen
Lamp. We are both grandchildren of Berit Røkke
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As seen from the side with
the fjord to the right. Gene and Mary Lamp can be seen in the
photo.
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To go upstairs to the
bedrooms you used a ladder to enter through a hole in the ceiling
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Entrance door to the small bedroom |
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The small wooden bed gives
you a sense of the size of the room (about 2 X 4 meters)
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The wooden floor was set on
top of rough hewn timbers.
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The largest upstairs
room
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Wooden Floor
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Supports in place while
restoration continues
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Rough Hewn Timber Floor |
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Jon Loar Fiskvik standing next to some of
the original wallpaper which had been uncovered |
Some of the modernization efforts to allow
the kitchen and bath to be installed |
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Notice the height of the
ceiling above Gene Lamp's head
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Boards removed and the timbers of the
floor above exposed |
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The fjord from an upstairs window |
A 2008 photo
Back of the house |
This is the farm of Berit Rokke's father Hagen Olsen Rokke (Rykkja) -
FJÆRPLASSEN GNR. 60/3/4/5
This farm is listed in the 2001 Skatval Bygdbok on pages 21, 22, and 23
The first notation is the bygdbok is "Utskilt fra bnr. I 1862".
This appears to be a reference to separating the property from another
entity, but I need to verify this.
Along with my cousin, Mary Iwen Lamp and her husband Gene, we visited
this farm in September, 2005 and met the current owner The
pictures on this page are from that visit. Mary and I are
grandchildren Berit Røkke and John J. Svee (Svebukta,
Saltøy). There is a more modern house on the property, but the
owner lived in the original house when he was young. The middle
bedroom upstairs was his bedroom. We visited again in 2008 and
progress had been made but the project was not yet completed.
Første Etasje
First Floor
The house was undergoing restoration and addition of some modern
features (addition of a bathroom, kitchen and running water on the
first floor which appeared originally to be 2 big rooms). In the
final construction it looked like there would be 2 rooms in addition to
the kitchen and bath.
The restoration also included preservation and was being carefully done
by people with the appropriate skills. When the interior walls
were exposed, wallpaper original to the house was found.
Annen Etasje
Second Floor
You entered the second floor by climbing up a conventional ladder
through a hole in the ceiling. The ladder took you up to a small
entrance room and 3 bedrooms. If you face the front of the house
with the fjord behind it, the bedroom on the top left was the smallest
(about 2X 4 meters), the middle was a little bigger and had been the
bedroom of the owner when he was young, and the one to the right the
largest (almost 1.5-2 times the size of the middle bedroom. We
speculated that the small room might have been the bedroom of Berit
Rokke, but we don't know for sure.