Erve het Smalenbroek

English translation

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Description

Particularly beautifully situated on the wooded country estate Het Smalenbroek, in its present form predominantly 18th-century (date stone 1762) and later (XIX-XX), but in layout presumably an older farmyard complex, consisting of a large farmhouse with an upper storey added in XXa, a large barn likewise still dating from the 18th century in layout and a heating house (XIX B). From 1894 to 1981 the Smalenbroek, mentioned as a plot already in 1346, was the property of the Enschede industrialist family Ter Kuile. The first owner M.E. ter Kuile commissioned afforestation around the turn of the century (Nederlandse Heidemij) and the laying out of a park with pond in landscape style (P.H. Wattez, ca. 1900); in XXa he had the attached upper house extended. In contrast to the 19th-century country house development characteristic of Twente, consisting of the sequence farmhouse with reception room or tea pavilion, and (industrialist's) villa in park-like grounds, the Smalenbroek, until the construction of the present country house in 1958, never had a separate residence. (Since 1981 the estate has been in the hands of the Stichting Het Overijsselsche Landschap).

Farmhouse.

The farmhouse, presumably older in layout, but in its present form predominantly 18th-century (1764) and later (XIX-XX) with a central hall, is constructed of brick on a plinth of Bentheim sandstone and is covered by a gabled roof tiled with Dutch tiles between wooden-clad pointed gables; weather vanes with spindle marks; wooden and brick drip moulding respectively at the transition from timber cladding to masonry.

The front facade is equipped with two clamped doors with 16-pane fanlights, beside which respectively one and two sash windows with fixed glazing bar (16-pane below and above) with shutters; 1.5 brick widths; the residential section is continued on the left side in the same design (upper storey?), which part is cellared and is covered by a similarly Dutch tile-covered gabled roof with brick pointed gable with weather vanes and wall anchors; a clamped striped door with 12-pane fanlight, beside which respectively one and two sash windows with fixed glazing bar (16-pane below and 12-pane above) and clamped shutters; 1.5 brick widths; in the gable top a 12-pane window above which 1.5 brick widths.

Of the agricultural section only the rear facade is still largely original; this is equipped with high barn doors with a small door set in a segmental arch, beside which respectively a round-arched window with cast-iron tracery and slightly lower barn doors under segmental arch, and likewise window and stable door under segmental arch; the arches enlivened by blocks of Bentheim sandstone; brick sawtooth moulding; wall anchors.

The upper storey built on to the right in 1781 is likewise constructed of brick on a plinth of Bentheim sandstone and covered by a gabled roof covered with Dutch tiles against a timber-clad top gable; simply profiled wooden drip moulding; two chimneys and later (XXa?) wooden capping for a bellcote. The front facade equipped with a clamped door with 16-pane fanlight, set in a nice frame with interrupted lintel, beside which respectively one sash window with fixed glazing bar (16-pane below and above) with clamped shutters and 1.5-brick widths, and likewise a window beside which and resting on profiled wooden corbels a triangular orielet covered with roof tiles; the side gable has a tiled flue, presumably installed at the time of conversion to a reception room (XIXd); on either side sash windows with shutters and moulded edges as in the front facade. The extension dating from XXa at right angles to the upper storey is likewise constructed of brick on a plinth of Bentheim sandstone and is covered by a three-sided roof covered with Dutch tiles with half-hipped end; the side gable is equipped with a clamped door with 16-pane fanlight, beside which two windows as of the adjacent upper storey; wall anchors; in the rear facade on the ground floor three sash windows with shutters and moulded edges and on the upper storey a compound window flanked by two narrow windows (all with glazing bars and originally with shutters); wall anchors.

Barn and heating house.

On the plot a large three-aisle barn (with a perhaps still 18th-century or older tie-beam truss framework in its layout), constructed of timber and covered by a hipped roof tiled with Dutch tiles; weather vanes; window and door openings of various sizes and detailing. Notably, the side aisles or carts are equally raised.

Likewise on the plot a heating house (XIX A or older?) with on one side a later (XXa?) cart for livestock stalling, which is constructed of brick (partly on a plinth of Bentheim sandstone) and is covered by a gabled roof covered with Dutch tiles between timber-clad top gables along which weather vanes; the window and door openings are of various dates; the design is in part not original.

In layout perhaps older, but as regards its present design predominantly to be dated 18th-century and later (XIX-XX) farmyard complex, called Erve het Smalenbroek, consisting of a main building with an attached and later converted to reception room upper storey, a large three-aisle barn and heating house and very beautifully situated on a semi-open agricultural and semi-wooded terrain which forms part of the country estate 'Het Smalenbroek'; the complex is on the one hand of significance because of the described architectural-historical qualities of both the individual components and the whole, on the other hand because of the cultural-historical significance which must be ascribed to the complex for its part in the development so characteristic of Twente of the so-called industrialist's country house, which in this case consists of the combination of country estate with park-like grounds, agricultural enterprise and reception room transformed from an attached upper storey.