Tuin, park en plantsoen, Rijksstraatweg bij 9 A

English translation

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Description

BRICK WALL WORK SURROUNDING INNER COURTYARD, FORECOURT AND KITCHEN GARDEN, WITH BRICK SEATING RECESSES, GATE PILLARS AND WROUGHT-IRON GATES from the end of the 17th century. Brick wall, partly provided with brick buttresses, bordering the inner courtyard on three sides, with a flank on the SE side of the kitchen garden located in the inner courtyard and surrounding on two sides the forecourt. On important axes of the layout of the inner courtyard three gates and three seating recesses are situated.

On the NE side of the wall, in the centre line of the former square classical garden, a wrought-iron gate provided with double wings with richly decorated, partly gilded wrought-iron top section of volutes and trophy-shaped ornamental pieces with in the centre a monogram set in an oval field of George Godard Henry, Earl of Reede, 8th Earl of Athlone, Lord of Amerongen (1820-1843), above which a three-dimensional crown. The monogram was presumably placed in the first half of the 19th century to replace a monogram from the end of the 17th century (possibly of the then owner Willem van Nassau Zuylesteyn). On the "View from the Great Garden, towards the front Wood" by Daniel Stoopendaal from circa 1700 it is namely visible that the gate was already provided with a top section with crowned monogram. At right angles to each of the outer rails on the western side of the gate a wrought-iron volute-shaped keystone. On either side of the wrought-iron gate a brick pillar with on the front and rear sides a rectangular whitewashed blind opening, with moulded stone coping, above which a sandstone vase shaped like a bell with closed lid.

On the northern wall, slightly to the south of the former orangery (formerly also called playhouse), two late 17th-century brick pillars, on either side of an entrance that has existed from the start, with moulded coping. On the front, rear and inner side of the pillars a large (above) and smaller (below) rectangular whitewashed blind opening, above which a sandstone pyramid-shaped crest with a ball.

To close off the SW side of the kitchen garden located in the north corner of the inner courtyard a wall laid at right angles against the north-western wall from the end of the 17th century, with centrally at the wall directly aligned with the centre of the kitchen garden an entrance element, which is framed on either side by brick pillars. On the front, rear and inner side of both pillars a large (above) and smaller (below) rectangular whitewashed blind opening. The pillars, which are closed at the top by moulded wooden moulding, are each crowned with a sandstone eagle.

To close off the forecourt, in the axis of the passage through the gate building, a wrought-iron double lattice gate with richly decorated partly gilded wrought-iron top section of volutes and trophy-shaped ornamental pieces, with in the centre a monogram set in an oval field of George Godard Henry Earl of Reede, 8th Earl of Athlone, Lord of Amerongen, above which a three-dimensional crown. The monogram was presumably placed in the first half of the 19th century to replace a monogram from the end of the 17th century. At right angles to the two outer pillars on the eastern side of the gate a wrought-iron volute-shaped wing piece. On either side of the gate a brick parapet surrounding on the NW and NE sides of the forecourt, which in a westerly direction continues into a brick wall leading to the broad water feature (Back Pond). On the NW side this parapet is closed off by a lattice gate with point-shaped crest.

On the north side of the north-eastern parapet a semi-circular brick projection, probably a remnant of the small 17th-century tower at the forecourt that existed according to various topographic views. Southeast of this projection on the parapet a small round-arched gate opening with sandstone keystone with the year 1618 - possibly a relic of Zuylestein from before the time of Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik - and a narrow staircase with stone treads from the forecourt to the slightly lower section of the inner courtyard to the north-east of it. The staircase was located against the NW side of the staircase of the entrance of the house, as shown in a photograph from 1909.

On the south-eastern inner wall, slightly to the north-east of the north-eastern tower section of the gate building, two pilasters with block motif with alternating blocks in red and yellow brick, which were originally crowned with urns, as several views by Jan de Beyer show.

Along the length and width axis of the kitchen garden there are on the northern and eastern walls two late 17th-century monumental brick seating recesses slightly projecting from the wall work consisting of a centrally located slightly arched opening in which against a whitewashed rear wall a bench, with on either side a pillar-shaped closure with a large (above) and a small (below) rectangular whitewashed blind opening. The seating recess is closed off by a moulded coping. A third seating recess is located on the northern wall, in the extension of the axis of the passage through the gate building and the wrought-iron gate closing off the forecourt. Above the arched opening of this recess, which, apart from a slightly different proportioning, is identical to the mentioned recesses a horizontal-rectangular whitewashed blind opening.

The ensemble of brick walls with passages partly framed by pillars and partly provided with wrought-iron gates, of seating recesses, gates and parapets is a rare and very valuable monumental remnant of a late 17th-century Dutch garden layout.