Nieuwerhoek

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. Undercellared symmetrical whitewashed rectangular two-storey house from the end of the 17th or beginning of the 18th century, with five window bays wide front and rear facade under continuous hipped roof covered with grey tiles; at the roof ridge corners the roof is provided with four square whitewashed chimneys with overhanging lead pyramid-shaped caps with curved flat surfaces. The four corners of the house are provided with four continuous pilasters, which - judging by plaster remains on the pilaster at the south-west corner - were probably once pink in colour. The white plaster layer as well as the Empire sash windows probably date from 1827 or shortly thereafter, when Willem Pieter Pook van Baggen acquired the country estate and had various improvements made to the house (such as presumably the Empire window frames and the painted wallpaper in the room on the south-west side of the house). Front (west) facade: five bay-wide front facade, with slightly projecting two-storey high central risalite, containing double glazed entrance doors with semi-circular 3-pane fanlight with two diagonal glazing bars. The door is framed on both sides and above by two pilasters and a cornice. At each side of the central risalite at ground floor level two Empire sash windows, provided with a 6-pane arrangement; on both sides green shutters. At first floor level five Empire sash windows, provided with a 4-pane arrangement, on both sides green (external) and white (internal) blinds. As with all facades the top of the facade is closed off by a rich cornice containing guttering. Above the second and fourth bay semi-circular roof dormer with wooden walls. North facade: at ground floor level a rectangular whitewashed extension (containing kitchen), the facade planes of which are closed off at the top by a cornice (containing guttering). First floor: two window arrangements identical to those at the front. Second floor: a roof dormer as at front. East facade: identical to the front facade, with the exception of the slightly projecting central risalite, in front of which a semi-circular portico of four wooden whitewashed columns with entasis on round hardstone plinths, under a cornice, above which a semi-circular balcony with cast-iron Empire balustrade, is placed on a hardstone base of two steps. South facade: in the centre at ground floor level a semi-circular vaulted whitewashed winter garden central at ground floor level, built in 1914 by Stoomtimmerfabriek K. van Nes te Boskoop, consisting of a brick substructure, above which a dome-shaped roof construction of glass and cast iron, flat at the top and covered by a semi-circular roof bordered by a moulded cornice. The substructure of this, in the Netherlands increasingly rare, winter garden is composed of seven bays with sash windows with 6-pane arrangement. Central on the south side a double door with 6-pane arrangement. The bays are separated from one another by six round columns and two half-columns placed against the facade of the house, which support the cornice (containing guttering) and roof construction. The winter garden is built on a base which is quarter-circular at the sides and rectangular at the front (south) side, on which along the edges for closure seven plinths and two half-plinths placed against the facade of the house are arranged, between which wrought-iron railings. Above the recently replaced by copies original plinth caps, above which seven whole and two half zinc ornamental vases from 1914. At second-floor level a roof dormer as at the other facades. Interior: hall running the full depth of the house with stuccowork by Van Logteren. Staircase with carving by Van Logteren. The south wall of the winter garden provided with elaborately worked raw stone cladding, in which in a primitive pattern unworked wooden branches; the latter arranged for (apparent) support of the roof construction.