Huis Sterreschans

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. Main building on rectangular plan with a broad building section towards the street side and a narrower building section on the Vecht side, each part under its own surrounding hipped roof covered with Oegstgeester tiles, with square chimneys with flat caps at the corners. The entrance section of the two-storey house, which with the exception of the south side and an extension on the north side is whitewashed, is presumably originally (circa 1690) centrally situated on the east facade parallel to the Vechtsteep as was always the case with the oldest country houses along the Vecht (compare for example the adjacent house Overholland). On either side of the long hall situated behind this, several rectangular rooms. This layout of the hall with the rooms on either side probably dates from the oldest building phase of the house. Perpendicular to the hall, interrupted by a transverse passage projected at right angles to the hall, is the garden room or great hall situated, which in the broad building section realised circa 1815 occupies a central position. In the great hall an empire fireplace mantel and wainscoting, and ceiling stucco work in Louis XVI style. At this time the Vecht (east) facade was also given a strict classical facade layout. Entrance section in the axis of the facade: door with 6-light glazing bars and a semi-circular fanlight with two diagonal bars. The entrance section is accentuated by a semi-circular ashlar landing of two steps, and by a semi-circular columned portico of four white-painted columns with entasis on round ashlar plinths, under cornice, above which a semi-circular balcony with simple iron empire balustrade. The entrance section is almost identical to the likewise Vecht-side situated entrance section of house Nieuwerhoek (Loenen). On either side of the entrance section two double opening 6-light windows with fanlight with 2-light glazing and provided with shutters. On the first storey four double opening windows, with 6-light glazing and shutters, on either side of a double balcony door with 6-light glazing and likewise provided with shutters. Directly above the entrance section a substantial roof dormer with round window (an oculus) with 4-light glazing and with carved work of garlands at the underside and scroll-shaped carved work with arrow-shaped crowning at the upper side. West facade: a facade section altered in the 19th century when the slightly projecting central risalite with three window bays was designed. The windows on the storey are placed in niche form and are closed semi-circularly at the upper side and accentuated with a stucco surround crowned with a hood. On the ground floor three double garden doors, with undivided fanlight. On the left side two 55-light sash windows with shutters. On the right side two undivided sash windows. In 1870 a cast-iron pergola with balcony for a double door was added in front of the risalite. The pergola is composed of rectangular columns (at the two corners double columns) with base and Corinthian capitals at the front and two pilasters with identical crowning and base against the facade, between which three arch-shaped fields bounded by a cast-iron profile and a single identical field at the sides. The pergola, provided with a sloping glazed roof, supports the rectangular balcony with wooden floor and cast-iron balustrade with scroll-shaped tracery and straight pillars at the corners. On the first storey centrally in the central risalite a double undivided balcony door; on the left side a sash window with 2-light glazing and on the right side a 30-light sash window. The risalite is crowned by a projecting profiled band. To the left of the central risalite on the first storey two sash windows with 30-light glazing and to the right two undivided sash windows. Above the profiled gutter supported by coupled scroll-shaped gutter brackets on either side of the central risalite in the mezzanine four narrow rectangular windows with 5-light glazing. With the exception of the mezzanine windows, the windows on the west facade are provided with shutters. On the north side, where a block motif is executed in the white-painted and plastered facade, a 19th- and early 20th-century rectangular and multi-sided brick extension, in which back kitchens, with doors and windows with multi-light glazing with shutters.