Huis Vijversburg

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. Cellared two-storey high lime-rendered main building on rectangular ground plan under hipped roof, interrupted at the front by a projection, divided into a front and rear house, possibly partly on foundations and with masonry from the 18th century, but largely dating from 1844-1845, with some late 19th-century additions. Front (north) facade divided into three bays, with a projecting gabled projection above the roof plane, crowned with a tympanum, in which a clock. At ground floor level centrally the entrance arrangement, consisting of a double wooden panelled door with fanlight with diagonal cross-shaped glazing bars; at the top closed off by a cornice with on either side a fluted pilaster on hardstone base. On either side four (modified) sash windows with 2-pane arrangement. The front facade is closed off at the top by a cornice with cyma moulding and ornamental paired placed gutter brackets. At first-floor level on the central projection three double opening doors with windows with 6-pane arrangement with semi-circular fanlight in which wrought-iron ornamental piece; in front a balcony with wrought-iron balustrade in straight bays in which alternately diagonal cross-shaped framework and framework in a pattern of volute-shaped scrolls. Between the arched openings and at the corners corniced pilasters. Under the tympanum the name Vijversburg is placed. East facade: front house level; at ground floor level two windows as ground floor level front facade. Rear house level: at ground floor level two sash windows with 4-pane arrangement; at first-floor level two windows with 6-pane arrangement. West facade: front house level; at ground floor level one window as at ground floor level front facade. Rear house level: at ground floor level three sash windows with 4-pane arrangement; at first-floor level four sash windows with 6-pane arrangement. South facade: built in ca. 1895, with slightly projecting central projection in which centrally located at storey level a double door with 2-pane arrangement. In front a balcony with balustered balustrades, supported by two piers with entasis and provided with Ionic capitals. The middle bay is crowned at the top by a tympanum, in which scrollwork in relief and centrally located a clock. On either side of the entrance a decorated niche with free-standing sculpture, depicting a standing female figure holding in her hand a grape cluster (right) and flower sprig (left). On the west facade a commemorative plaque with the date of the first laying of the stone of the house (1844) and text: "laid by Age Looxma IJpeij 10 years" and with the renovation year 1894.