Schoonheten

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. Partly cellared two-storey house on a square ground plan, of which the central section is built higher over its full depth than the side sections. The building is provided with a hipped roof covered with grey tiles with an adjoining gabled roof running underneath at a right angle on either side. Six square chimneys crowned by copper overhanging pyramid-shaped caps with angled surfaces on the roof ridge ends. Ground plan and layout of the house and the rear (west) facade partly date from the middle of the 17th century, when Huis Schoonheten was built. At the end of the 19th century, according to plans by J.G. Wolbers, the side wings were raised by one storey and the house was provided with new facade treatments, roof dormers and windows. Around 1900 a multi-sided cupola with thatched roof covering was built at the southwest corner of the house. The cupola has recently been provided with a zinc roof.

Front (east) facade: facade six window bays wide and provided with a hardstone basement, of which the middle two bays are incorporated in the slightly projecting and raised central section of the house. As with the windows in the south and north facades, multi-pane sash windows in historicising late 17th-century style are placed in the windows on ground-floor level, on the first-floor level French casement windows and in the windows of the roof dormers casement windows with 2 panes. Windows on ground-floor level and first floor are provided with light archivolt upper architraves and shutters. Roof dormers outlined by strongly angled simple profiled cheeks and soffit, as also the roof dormers on the other sides of the house. Above the gutter, centrally placed on the central section, a square clock face with cheeks and soffit, similar to those of the roof dormers, but on a larger scale. At the centrally located entrance section a 19th-century rectangular porch under a lean-to roof, entirely composed of an iron construction of posts and rails, with glass set in. Above this a light archivolt fanlight and lantern. Above this, on second-floor level, the quartered coat of arms of the presumed patron of the 17th-century house: Eusebius Bentinck x Sophia van Ittersum till Werkeren and Wolf van Ittersum till Gerner x Anna van Westerholt.

Rear (west) facade: presumably partly still 17th-century facade, with lightly angled basement situated in the moat, which in contrast to the remaining brick facades is whitewashed. Windows of the two window bays wide raised and slightly projecting central section provided with shutters. On the three window bays wide side sections three storeys with 9-pane windows, the height of which decreases per higher storey.

Interior: raised above the cellar lies in the middle of the rear side the hall, which possesses characteristic characteristics of the time around 1660 in the monumental fireplace and in the flat wooden ceiling, which is decorated in a highly decorative manner. In the breast of the fireplace a portrait (old copy) of king-stadtholder William III. The oval central section of the ceiling an allegory of Time. In a small room to the left of the vestibule a semicircular fireplace, the breast of which is fitted with a china cabinet (early 18th century).