Engeland

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Most westerly situated in the complex De Zeven Landen COUNTRY HOUSE, named Engeland and designed by Tj. Kuipers in 1894.

N.B. In 1925, at the commission of A.N. Scholten Lewe van Middelstum and to the design of Jan de Meyer, a larger part of the attic was made suitable for habitation.

Object description

Country house with four storeys: ground floor, first and second storey and attic storey. Built in brick on a high stone plinth with symmetrical pointed gable. The roof consists of an inset gabled roof, behind which slopes an inclined roof shield with red flat tiles, further likely flat. The ground floor has on the right side the entrance section with door under an inswung herringbone arch with moulding and half-balusters. On the left side an arched four-light window under a similar herringbone arch. In the middle a six-light window. Further red and grey brick and four stone corbels. On the first storey a large central three-sided bay window, supported by an ogee-shaped squinch with country name 'Engeland'. The bay window built predominantly of grey brick has furthermore whitewashed corner stones, narrow recent windows with fanlights, bands in red brick, a wooden architrave and five crenellations or battlements with cornice. The originally open 'murder holes' have meanwhile been closed and whiteplastered. The second storey has a central double window section with balcony and with recent frames. Further moulded upper dormer stones and deep wall corbels resting on moulded and ornamented corbels, as support points for the projecting wooden top of the pointed gable above. Moulded rendered cornice. Attic storey with wooden boards and wind braces; projecting boarded top with rails and stiles. Small rectangular bay window with cross window with multi-light panes. On either side another narrow window with six-light fanlight. The bay window rests on a console built up of progressively recessed rectangles. The console runs out in a worked corbel.

Valuation

Richly detailed country house of general importance because of its architectural and cultural historical value as a rare example of architecture inspired entirely by English indigenous building traditions in the context of a complex-form sample card of European building styles and as part of the complex De Zeven Landen designed by Tj. Kuipers.