Bijgebouwen kastelen enz., Koninklijk Park 15

English translation

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Description

Royal Stables: built in 1907-1909 and 1914 according to designs by the State Architect C.H. Peters, whereby at the request of Prince Hendrik the stables of Schwerin served as much as possible as an example. The building complex, designed in a neoclassicism embellished with contemporary elements, is constructed in white brick (now largely whitewashed) with plinths, pilasters, dentil courses under the gutters, bands, (window) arches and spans in red brick and with sills and coping strips of plinths in hardstone, has saddle roofs, hipped roofs and tent roofs covered with blue roof tiles with geometric patterns in red roof tiles at the ridges, has at various places air vents in iron and mortared dormer windows with gabled roofs, pediment and 4- or 9-pane windows, and consists of the following components: A. the U-shaped main building situated around a rectangular courtyard with an oval flower bed in the middle (formerly a riding and instruction arena); the former coach house (N.W. side) and riding hall (S.E. side), now fitted out as a museum, central wing without upper storey under parallel gabled roofs has a central pavilion (N.W. side) under tent roof crowned with a bell tower and at the ends a corner pavilion under hipped roof with chimney above the ridge ends; adjoining the corner pavilions on the N.E. side stable no. 1 (now storage space) and on the S.W. side stable no. 2, both without upper storey and under gabled roof, with adjoining stable no. 2 an end pavilion under tent roof crowned with chimney; all pavilions - serving mainly for staff accommodation, but for example on the ground floor of the corner pavilions containing tack rooms, saddle-maker's workshop, changing room etc. - have two storeys, are provided with straight-topped windows with 2-, 4- and 6-pane windows (partly still with smaller glazing bars) and have, as do the stable buildings and the N.W. side of the coach house, in each roof plane one or more dormer window(s) with 4-pane window; the stable buildings have in the long facades in the middle a door and series of 4-pane windows in recesses running down to the plinth, have air vents between and beside the dormer windows, have internally along the long series of boxes (underneath wood, above bars) with doors between cast-iron columns topped by a copper ball and above the double doors enclosed by a mortared risalit towards the corner pavilions, as well as above those of the riding hall towards the corner pavilions, in an arched recess and bell surrounded by Art Nouveau foliage; the riding hall has in the S.E. facade a mortared central section with in the middle a gate with arched 7-pane fanlight under sloping cap and on either side a door with arched 5-pane fanlight, on either side of the central section six wooden gates with 7-pane fanlights, of which the second and the fifth under sloping cap and with rising round-arch windows in fanlights and a mortared end section with in the middle a large window with arched 7-pane fanlight under sloping cap and on either side two coupled windows with arched 3-pane fanlights; internally the riding hall is covered by a wooden pointed-barrel vault roof provided with profiled belt arches and band paintings, which begins above the ends of the for the rest (except the places with sloping caps) a flat ceiling supporting, richly profiled and carved corbel brackets with (on the S.E. side braced) wall posts (on the S.E. side partly free-standing posts); the riding hall has a floor paved with wooden blocks and in the N.W. wall a long series of double doors with 5-pane fanlights, which provide access to the coach house; the coach house has in the N.W. facade 3-pane windows in rectangular recesses running down to the plinth and at the ends an array of coupled windows. To the N.W. of the main building from S.W. to N.E.: B. the sick bay: rectangular stable building (ridge//S.W.-N.E.) without upper storey under hipped roof with on the ridge two air vents, above the ridge ends a chimney and in each roof plane one or two dormer window(s) with 9-pane window; in the S.E. facade 4-pane windows in recesses running down to the plinth; in the N.E. facade double door with 5-pane fanlight and hatch opening. C. the smithy: rectangular building without upper storey under hipped roof (also//N.W.-S.E.) with air vent in middle of ridge and chimney above ridge ends; in S.E. facade double door with 5-pane fanlight; in S.W. and N.E. facade twice three coupled 2-pane windows. The garage (1907-1909) for 5 cars; rectangular building without upper storey under hipped roof (ridge//S.W.-N.E.) with on the middle of the ridge an air vent and in each of the roof planes a dormer window with 9-pane window; in S.W. and N.E. facade three 2-pane windows; in S.E. facade five sets of garage doors (panel doors); against the S.E. facade a wooden canopy (gabled roof), on the S.W. and N.E. side with brick plinth, wooden gable top with rising round-arch planes and a glazing interrupted by two posts and glazing bars and on the S.W. side resting on a series of six wooden posts on hardstone plinths (at the ends on brick plinth of side facades) and between the posts 5-pane fanlights, in the middle under a sloping cap and with rising round-arch windows. To the S.E. of the main building: E former garage (1914) for 8 cars, now tea room: U-shaped building without upper storey under running hipped roof with air vent in middle of south-eastern ridge and north-western ridge ends, chimneys above south-eastern ridge ends and dormer window with 9-pane window above gable ends; in the gable ends two 4-pane windows; between the legs of the U a wooden canopy (gabled roof), on N.W. side resting on wooden posts and originally open. To the east of the main building: F. fencing with mortared plinth and pillars, on which a cornice with consoles and overhanging, tile-covered, elongated hipped roof ridges, of which the central one - above the large double wrought-iron and sheet-iron gate doors - is higher; on either side of the central gate three panels with bars and at the end a gate door. As a representative, carefully detailed and well-built, and virtually intact example of a building complex erected in an architecture based on classicism yet characteristic for the first decade of the 20th century, and as a component of the palace "'t Loo" of general cultural and architectural historical importance.