Huis te Manpad

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. Rectangular manor house under hipped roof, crowned by four corner chimneys, built second quarter seventeenth century, rebuilt and underpinned internally and externally around 1721, extended on the rear side 1767-1770, as regards the front facade and windows modernised in the first quarter of the 19th century and subjected to a general restoration in 1954-55, during which the front facade was stripped of plaster, the terrace in front of it removed, the empire glazing bars in the windows of the oldest section and the eighteenth-century glazing bars in those of the section of 1767-1770, where these were not present, applied and a new terrace was built against the south facade.

Front facade of five window bays, closed off by a list with rosettes and provided with (calculated on facade plaster) window surrounds, a door surround above which the arms of Van Lennep and Van de Poll and an empire window railing, and on the eaves line a dormer with clock face, curved pediment and three crowning pinecones; the basement of the seventeenth-century section is in the front and side facades provided with two-lights, which at the underpinning of the house in 1721 were brought here from the upper storey; in the side facades above these segmental arched window openings with day edges and arches of bright red brick and above each side facade a dormer. Rear facade of five window bays, provided with corner pilasters and a central risalit.