Huis Ampsen

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. House of two storeys with high hipped roof with chimneys on the ridge, with two projecting side wings on the entrance (NW) side. The main wing and the SE wing were realised around 1650 by Johan van Nagell. Both wings have basements: the basement of the side wing is vaulted with two rows of five cross-rib vaults each on a row of pillars and the basement of the main wing is covered by channel vaults on wooden beams. The NW wing, which in contrast to the SE wing also projects forward on the rear side, was probably built in 1754, when Jan Herman Sigismund van Nagell, lord of Ampsen, married Maurice Constance le Leu de Wilhem. In that year the current sandstone central projection of the main wing with the lobed pediment and the framing of the entrance door and window above it in Louis XV style were added; above the latter window are the alliance coats of arms of Van Nagell and of Le Leu de Wilhem. Through this alteration the front of Huis Ampsen acquired its current classical articulation of a main building with a centrally accentuated entrance section and with two side wings on either side. In the upper lobe of the pediment a clock face behind which is a pendulum clock from the mid-18th century and a 17th-century bell with inscription: "Jan Herman Nagel Heer tot Olden en Nieuwen Ampsen Gerhart Schimmel me fecit Davnetriae 1687". Centrally on the front of the side wings two sandstone Louis XV consoles. At the end of the 19th century the house was provided with new windows; at ground-floor level new sash windows were installed and the first storey received windows with inward-opening casements. The current glazing bars of these windows date from an alteration in 1935, when a five-sided tower was also built on the southeast wing - to replace a 19th-century small tower. The house is provided on all sides with dormer windows with arched overdoors and double casement windows with fanlights; these are located on the front perpendicular above the wall planes between the windows and on the sides and rear partially above the windows of the lower storeys. On the entrance side a recently provided with new sandstone slabs presumably 18th-century stoop of five steps with on either side two lobed side pieces with leaf motifs applied in relief. These side pieces are placed to mask two stairs, which lead to the cellar door located directly beneath the stoop.

On either side of the stoop stairs two marble 17th-century heraldic lions, from the country estate Vredestein (Betuwe), placed here in 1873 by the then owner Egbert Justinus van Nagell and his wife Sophia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, whose coats of arms were applied to the lions at that time. Some decades earlier, around 1855, the main wing on the rear side was centrally extended to a central projection, broadly following the central projection of the front facade. The projection was provided with a lobed pediment. The windows of basement, ground floor, first and second storey level received a framing in neo-Louis XV style. In the upper lobe of the pediment an oeil de boeuf with diagonal glazing bars; beneath it a heraldic lion with the coats of arms of (Jacques Adriaan Christiaan) van Nagell and of (Justina Maria Wilhelmina) Rengers, who gave the order for this alteration.

Interior: in the hall an oak carved staircase from the 18th century. The room, located on the rear side of the southwest wing, a stucco ceiling in rococo forms. In the back room of the NW wing a chimney piece from 1650 depicting Johan Herman van Nagell, which has recently been placed in the southeast building.