The gable stone is a real sun dial with a double hour hand. In the meantime it has been provided with a small bar, which provides the shadow line and so the time can be read again.
Corner house Hoogbrugstraat 64 used to be a pub. The gable stone is completely covered by the sign of Marres' Bier.
Before bay windows were added to the front of the neighbouring house no. 66, it used to have a gable stone there, as can still clearly be seen in the photo.
This was a bird, also called the cockerel, which unfortunately disappeared during the renovation.
In the eighteenth century the Maastricht house typically had three facade openings on the ground floor and two on the first floor. Usually, a trapezoidal gable stone was placed in the residual space between the hardstone facade bands, as can be seen here.
A modern sun dial by Appie Drielsma can be seen at Mosasaurusweg 49.
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