Den Berg

English translation

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Description

MAIN HOUSE. Gentleman's residence on rectangular ground plan, partly basement, with two storeys under a hipped roof covered with black glazed tiles. The layout is symmetrical. The front facade has seven window axes; the western and eastern side gable four window axes; the rear gable on either side of the three-sided projection of the dome chamber each two window axes and a blind opening. The sash windows on the main floor have 18-pane glazing and on either side of the entrance 12-pane windows. The entrance with double entrance door, before which a semi-circular stone step of five treads, with double panelled doors, above which a fanlight with star and circular glazing, is emphasized by a natural stone central feature with pilasters on either side. Above the entrance the inscription, applied around 1900, which names 1705 as the construction year of the house. The sash windows of the second storey have 12-pane glazing and on either side of the double central window a narrow window, glazed with 21 panes. The inward-opening double central window has a glazing of 2x28 panes. Above the natural stone-framed central window the painted arms of alliance of Van Dedem-Van Delen (Willem Jan van Dedem, married to Gerbrecht van Delen). The facade is closed off, as are the others, with a cornice, which above the central feature is semi-circular. The windows in the western side gable have 18-pane glazing on the main floor and on the first storey 12-pane glazing, as do the windows in the rear gable and the eastern gable. The polygonal closure of the dome chamber has above and below windows with the same glazing. The windows were originally provided with venetian blinds. In the eastern side gable an entrance door, with an 'Amsterdam' step applied in 1986 (step applied during the restoration of the 1980s to replace the existing step, which was composed of inverted natural stone drinking troughs). The roof dormers on the front, double inward-opening windows, with horizontal natural stone band at dormer height and provided with tent-shaped cappings. The tower-like projection, designed by L.H. Eberson, is crowned by a wooden, open bell tower. Internally the house is laid out almost symmetrically. The barrel vaults in the cellar intersect each other in cross. On the main floor a vestibule covered with white marble flooring. The vestibule has stucco work from the last quarter of the 18th century, when modernized by Coenraad Willem van Dedem - lord of the Rollecate and Den Berg (1738-1816) - with overdoor panels upon which among other things hunting attributes and a spacious, at the underside with simple ornament stuccoed, wooden spiral staircase with central newel. The room on the left has a chimney breast provided with stucco decoration (garden attributes), also from the end of the 18th century, and an early 19th-century black marble fireplace mantel. The windows are provided with 18th-century internal shutters, as in all other rooms. Behind it a room, designed by L.H. Eberson, with black marble fireplace, wooden wainscoting and neoclassical stucco decoration. The dome chamber (1866), also designed by Eberson, has a 19th-century white marble fireplace and rich stucco decoration. To its side the former kitchen with fireplace with turtle-tile covered range and white/turtle-tile tiling against the wall. To the right of the vestibule the library with bookcase in art nouveau forms, black marble fireplace and stucco decoration. Further on this floor a study with oak-panelled wainscoting (between the windows), entrance door and neoreaissance fireplace with twisted, cast concrete columns and a tiling with three representations. On the first floor in the western apartment 19th-century wainscoting with fireplace and an overmantel painting on canvas, depicting The Rape of Europa, and an overdoor panel with a mythological representation painted on canvas. In the rooms on this floor various white and black marble 19th-century fireplaces.