Woonhuis, Steenbergen 6

English translation

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Description

Designed in 1911 by K.P.C. de Bazel on commission of the ladies C.J. and J. Pabst, entirely free-standing COUNTRY HOUSE named "Steenbergen" - with associated, separate gardener's cottage - built with attic storey on a rectangular ground plan under a high-pitched thatched roof - with ridge parallel to the entrance gable, two corner chimneys, two very large and a series of smaller half-round roof dormers and a roof turret in the centre - erected in brick, provided with windows with small glazing bars, wooden frames and shutters, arranged as symmetrically as possible, in a style related to the English country house tradition with characteristic detailing for the architect and the application of a proportional scheme based on triangles; between the storeys a band with meander blocks at the window corners. The entrance is situated in the middle of the N. gable and is provided with an open portico supported by double columns; on either side below are two double windows and a three-part window each, where originally the right-hand one served to light a studio; on the attic storey a broad five-window-bay roof dormer has been installed which contains in the centre a loggia supported by two columns with carved capitals and at the top a half-round roof dormer with two others to either side. The narrow E. gable is executed in comparable manner, with below on the left a pair of double doors, in the centre a double window and on the right the low extension and on the storey two three-lights with blinds and a double window in the centre, and at the top a half-round roof dormer. The S. gable is largely mirrored to the N. gable but contains below at the corners two three-sided bay windows and in the centre a three-sided conservatory with two garden doors to either side; the brick parapet of the loggia on the attic storey is partly open-worked, while the half-round roof dormers at the sides are positioned lower than the others. The W. gable is arranged almost identically to the E. gable, with to the south adjoining the wooden pergola towards the formally laid out rose garden. Internally a central wooden staircase hall with carved stair balusters and uniform profiling in the wall panelling, as well as a floor mosaic with geometric pattern, all designed by De Bazel. Country house of characteristic architecture for the modernising trend appearing around 1900, inspired by traditional English country house building, within Dutch residential architecture on account of the application of a rigid, as symmetrical as possible facade arrangement with bay windows and windows provided with small glazing bars, a high thatched roof and a central staircase hall, and furthermore provided with elements characteristic specifically for the work of De Bazel such as the roof turret, the meander blocks, the half-round roof dormers, the uniformly profiled panellings, the floor mosaic with geometric pattern and the careful finishing of woodwork and brickwork in general; also typical for the development of Laren as a settlement location for painters around the turn of the century on account of the original presence of a painters' studio.