Bijgebouwen kastelen enz., Almelosestraat 16

English translation

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Description

MAIN HOUSE. Rectangular partly cellared main house of red brick on L-shaped ground plan, covered with a gabled roof with half-hipped ends, the tiles being red and black. On the outer sides and short sides the main house is partly whitewashed and partly provided with a white plaster layer. The main house, which has a stone foundation, dates in origin probably from the 17th or first half of the 18th century. A keystone on the south wing mentions the year 1732. Probably part of the main house can be identified with the right main house on the drawing of Backenhagen from 1732 by Cornelis Pronk (coll. R.D.M.Z., Zeist).

The location of the main house in relation to the old manor-house is observable by means of the Cadastral Minute Plan from ca. 1830.

Perhaps the south wing of the main house, where the aforementioned keystone is placed, is older than the east wing. In the original northern outer wall of the south wing the present Tudor arch-shaped passage to the east wing was made in the 19th century.

In the second half of the 19th century the main house was widened by several metres at the location of the entire inner side of its L-shaped structure; this widening is clearly observable by means of the extension of the preserved original roof truss structure.

On the west side of the south wing a service house has been established from antiquity. This house was shortened in an easterly direction around 1850 in connection with the construction of the house (communication from current owner Mr Ressing). In this century the L-shaped ground plan of the main house was extended into a rectangle by the construction of a greenhouse and by the extension of the north wall of the east wing in a westerly direction. The greenhouse is, like a recently laid out inner courtyard to the west of the greenhouse, of subsidiary monumental value. East wing east side from left to right a small rectangular single-paned window, a semi-circular double carriage door and four round windows with 4-pane glazing. The two round windows on the right side are placed in a blind opening, which shows building traces of a large rectangular window. Between the left round window and the adjacent round window there is a slightly higher placed blind opening. Below it a door with 4-pane light.

North gable of east wing: slightly to the left of the centre of this gable a double light arched door, which before the widening of this gable was in line with the plane of the gable. To the right of this a double door with above it a 4-pane window. Adjacent to the right side of this gable a whitewashed gable with an arched (left) and a semi-circular arch door (right), both provided with a semi-circular fanlight with an ornamental glazing bar arrangement of six ovals round a central semi-circular placed at the bottom. Between the doors two round ventilation holes with ornamental wrought iron grilles. To the right of the right door an identical ventilation hole with grille. The outbuilding behind this gable is of subsidiary importance for the protection.

West side of east wing: the arrangement of this gable, erected in the second half of the 19th century, consists of from left to right three arched blind openings with directly above a rectangular window, a shutter, three 4-pane windows and on the storey above the left two panes two 4-pane windows, an arched door with above it a 4-pane window.

South wing south side: slightly to the left of the centre of the gable a building trace of an arched door with keystone with the year 1732. To the left of this former door from left to right two 8-pane windows with 12-pane fanlights and to the right of these a higher placed 8-pane window with 4-pane fanlight. Below it a cellar window with division into 2 panes (these windows to the left of the former carriage door relate to the service house).

To the right of the former door from left to right a high placed single-pane window in the gable with broad stone sub-sill. At the same height to the right of it a broad single-pane window with broad stone sub-sill, with below it a building trace of a small arched door section. At the right end a building trace of the same door section. To the left of this building trace a narrow door with single-pane fanlight. The building traces of the double door and door sections give an indication of the original presumably symmetrical arrangement of this gable.

West gable of south wing: when this gable was widened by several metres around 1900 or earlier, the two double semi-circular arch windows with 9-pane arrangement (per window) placed in the top gable and ornamental brick and stone bands and framing came out of line with the plane of the gable. These windows and the access door placed to the left below with semi-circular spoke-glazed 4-pane light fanlight date from around 1850, when this gable, after being moved some distance in an easterly direction, was rebuilt. Above the aforementioned door a small diamond-shaped window. In the section erected around 1900 an 8-pane door and to the right of it a small rectangular window. Above this, halfway between ground floor and storey, a 4-pane window.

Interior: in the service house a stone chimneypiece from the first half of the 18th century, possibly from the 17th-century house Backenhagen demolished in the 1840s.