Huis Oud Over

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. Two-storey brick main building with basement on a rectangular ground plan under a hipped roof covered all round with grey tiles, with four slender tall composite chimneys under flat caps, situated two by two on the short roof slopes. The hipped roof is crowned all round by a wooden fascia board decorated with acroteria at the corners. The front (east) facade is articulated in five bays with a centrally placed bay emphasized by moulding, containing the entrance composition. The entrance composition is composed of a double Empire door with 4-pane glazing and fanlight with arch-shaped glazing bars. Above it a rectangular panel. Above a 4-pane window at first-floor level. The door composition, rectangular panel and window are unified into one compositional whole by moulding. On either side of the door pilasters with block motif, which carry a cornice. On either side of the window at first-floor level, which is crowned by a tympanum, moulding that curves outward toward the bottom. On either side of this window an oculus with profiling. On either side of the door composition two Empire sash windows with 6-pane glazing. The double casement windows located above these windows and door at first-floor level are glazed in four panes. At the height of the second and fourth window bay a roof dormer with 4-pane glazing with semi-circular coving and sides that curve outward toward the bottom. Against the front facade four wrought wall anchors. West facade: almost identical to front facade; the door composition is preceded by a hardstone step of two treads. At the height of the middle bay a roof dormer as on the front facade. South facade: three-bay wide facade section with central projection. On each bay at ground-floor level a terrace door with 4-pane glazing. Fanlights of these doors in the side bays are glazed in two panes. Door in central projection has a fanlight with eye-shaped glazing bars. This door composition is framed by pilasters with block motif, which support a cornice. First-floor level: per bay a double casement window with 4-pane glazing. North facade: at ground-floor level on the right side a sash window with 6-pane glazing and just to the left of centre a double casement window with 4-pane glazing. In an advertisement in the Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant from 1804 the main building of Oud Over is described as the 'modern and comfortable Gentlemen's House', which probably refers to the present main building. Given its Classicist building style with regard to the window glazing and execution of entrance door and some fanlights distinctly Empire elements and the fascia board with acroteria, the present main building can on stylistic grounds be dated to circa 1800. The main building was probably built on the foundations of an older house. It is possible that the ground-floor layout with the centrally located hall, which divides this floor into two equal halves, and with the staircase on the north side of this hall, derives from the older house. Below the staircase at basement level a brick wall in clay-brick bond.