Hunzeroord

English translation

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Description

Introduction FARMHOUSE, named Hunzeroord, head-and-body type, standing freely situated on a large, partly moated yard with trees near the Van Starkenborghkanaal and parallel to an old exit road towards Wierum and Adorp, built in 1836 as a farmhouse and summer residence commissioned by the well-known Groningen professor of natural sciences Sibrandus Stratingh (1785-1841) in a rural-seeming, craft-traditional building style with classical style characteristics. In the moat of Hunzeroord, Stratingh made a test run in 1840 of the electric motorboat he had developed. The farmhouse remained in the possession of the same tenant family for six generations. The building was converted into a residential dwelling in 1993-1994 and internally partially adapted accordingly. Description The entirely whitewashed front house is built on a square ground plan and comprises one storey under a far projecting hipped roof, which is thatched with reed. The projecting roof parts rest on five wooden columns that are crowned by capitals with egg mouldings. The columns rest on sandstone bases. The columns are shortened and have a brick underpinning. In the front roof gable a wooden balcony is cut out in the thatched roof with wooden glazed balcony doors and a characteristic wooden balcony railing with a fan and diamond-shaped pattern under a thatched roof covering in the form of a half-hipped roof. Below the balcony the name 'Hunzeroord' is indicated. This roof part rests on two wooden posts. The side roof gables contain two reed-thatched curved roof dormers with windows that are closed with a round-arched form. The front facade of the front house is two window bays wide; the side facades are likewise two window bays wide. All windows of the front house are straight-topped with a round-arched fanlight in Empire style. The transition between front house and barn is likewise whitewashed. The main entrance is placed in the northern side facade at the point where the facade makes a jog and contains a wooden panelled door with fanlight with a fan-shaped wooden glazing bar pattern. The door is decorated with a knocker in the form of a lion's head with ring. The side facades of the transition section contain straight-topped windows with fanlights. The attached thatched barn has original black glazed tiles, red pantiles and is reed-thatched. The side facades are whitewashed and provided with a black tarred plinth and contain small, rectangular wooden small windows. The rear facade of the barn is built up in red brick and is not plastered. The rear facade contains a large, double wooden barn door and a smaller door with fanlight and rolling slats. In the middle three wooden round-arched stable windows are placed. On the corners small cast-iron stable windows are placed that are closed with a segmental arch. To the south of the neck section stands a partly freestanding stoke house of red brick with small chimney of one storey under a gabled roof. The masonry of the stoke house has been largely renewed. Horizontal, segmental-arched cast-iron windows with glazing bars are placed in it. Original is the south facade with small chimney. Internally of importance the beam ceilings of the rooms in the head and neck section, the original panelled doors and glazed doors with glazing bars, the wooden bed-alcove wall in the room on the north side and the three-part door arrangement, one of which is a false door, in the bedroom on the upper floor of the front house. Evaluation FARMHOUSE, of the head-and-body type, named Hunzeroord, built in 1836 as a farmhouse and country house of the Groningen professor Sybrandus Stratingh, of general importance due to its cultural-historical, landscape and architectural-historical value, due to its typological rarity and due to the importance of the building in relation to the structural and visual integrity of the landscape environment to the northwest of the city of Groningen.