Tuin, park en plantsoen, Graaf de Geloeslaan bij 8

English translation

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Description

WALL, PIERS AND GATE.

Red brick wall erected on the north side of the forecourt, which forms the boundary of the forecourt on this side and of the kitchen garden and orchard. The wall transitions on the east side into the north wall of the north wing of the outbuilding. The wall is terminated on the west side by two brick piers with block motif, which flank a double wrought iron gate. As such the wall and gate date from the years 1881-1886, when the house was restored in historicising Maasland Renaissance style. On photographs from before this time the block piers are already visible, which perhaps date from the 17th century. A brick wall is also visible on these photographs, which was perhaps (partially) retained when the current masonry was provided with historicising details in the years 1881-1886. The wall, which is crowned by a saddle-back coping, is articulated by brick block piers into eleven bays. Each block pier is crowned by a marl stone globe surrounded by a ring on profiled base. The second bay on the left and right side of the wall is slightly more slender than the remaining nine bays, projects triangularly above the masonry and is crowned by a natural stone urn-shaped ornamental piece. In these two bays a semi-circular opening with wrought iron grille of straight uprights and horizontals, decorated with circular and volute-shaped scrolls. The opening is provided with a natural stone under-sill and marl stone keystone. In the remaining bays on the forecourt side a central historicising Renaissance cross-shaped field formed by four recessed right-angled rectangular panels. On the kitchen garden and orchard side the bays are finished flat. On the west side of the wall the double wrought iron gate flanked by two piers from the years 1881-1886, the space between the spindles and horizontals of which is filled with scrolls. The gate is closed by a wrought iron top section of two horizontals with volute-shaped scrolls and rose crown. The piers on either side are crowned by a late 19th-century marl stone urn-shaped ornamental piece; these ornamental pieces were renewed circa 1980. The most westerly pier is connected by a brick wall to the parapet wall around the moat.