Villa Olanda

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

Villa with the character of a country house, construction of which began in 1886 according to the design of architect A. van Ameyden van der Duym. The detached building, erected in Italianising neo-Renaissance style, is surrounded by a garden, which is closed off on the street side by a monumental ironwork gate. The villa was built at the commission of Edmund van Hoboken, Lord of Rhoon, Pendrecht and Baarland, son-in-law of the founder of the Van Stolkpark, Abraham van Stolk.

Description.

The villa "Olanda" covers an approximately square floor plan and consists of a basement, bel étage and high upper storey, above which a roof storey in the truncated, continuous hipped roof covered with slates. The width of the building comprises seven window bays. The three central bays of the front facade are treated as a risalite and also the central bay of both side facades is conceived as a risalite. Each of the risalites carries a pavilion-shaped hipped roof which is higher than the main roof and possesses a decorated roof dormer with pediment. The basement is clad as a plinth articulation with heavy rustication in hardstone. For the rest the brickwork is enlivened by plastered bands and corner blocks. The windows possess T-shaped casement frames. The basement is projected out before the facade and possesses, above its rusticated facades with their round-arched windows, a landing with natural stone balustrade on either side of the entrance stairs. The central risalite of the front facade is open: on the bel étage as a portico with corner pillars and Tuscan columns bearing an architrave with triglyphs and metopes in the frieze, and on the upper storey as a loggia with profiled round arches on wall pillars and columns of the Composite Order. The windows of the front facade bear cornices on consoles, on the upper storey moreover broken pediments with pomegranates. The risalite against the left side facade has on the upper storey a two-light window with a heavy, decorated architrave and pediment. Adjacent to this risalite is the portal projection of the main entrance, with a balustrade above the architrave.

The interior has been largely preserved in its authentic, rich execution (some components in 1974 during restoration returned to their original form). It comprises among other things the vestibule with richly decorated stucco ceiling in neo-Louis XVI style and fluted pilasters of the Composite Order against the walls; the hall with marble wainscoting and floor, stucco ceiling and door surrounds, wall panels and panelled doors; a mahogany staircase with baluster handrail and richly carved newel post in neo-Louis XV manner and on the bel étage halls and rooms with timberwork, marble chimney mantels and stucco ceilings, all in eclectic styles. The garden gate on the street side consists of wrought iron work on mortared and cemented base, with natural stone gate pillars capped by pediments, and carriage gates with decorative wrought iron.

Valuation.

The villa "Olanda" with garden gate is of cultural-historical value as a representative example of housing for the well-to-do at the end of the 19th century in an urban villa park. It is architecturally important as a grandly conceived and richly executed example of representative country house architecture in neo-Renaissance style. Both the exterior and the eclectic interior have been largely preserved in their original form; the main form, detailing and applied materials are intact.