Schouwenburgh

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Built on a rectangular floor plan with tower extension, and provided with a large freestanding villa-dwelling house with a hipped roof covered with tiles, named "Schouwenburgh"; built in 1938 to the design of architect F.C.J. Dingemans of Haarlem, commissioned by Jhr. A. van Citters, burgemeester of Burgh, erected in Delft School architecture in the transitional area between the dunes and the flatter hinterland, north of the centre of Burgh. The villa is surrounded by an extensive garden integrated into the design.

Description

The largely single-storey, partly cellared house is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with natural stone corner and setting blocks. The facades feature far-projecting wooden gutters on consoles.

On the northeast corner is a two-and-a-half storey tower-like building section with a pavilion roof, crowned by a small bell tower with a weather vane in the form of a mermaid. Slightly rotated on the main building is a lower extension on the west side in which garage and scullery are housed.

The hipped roofs of the main building and extension and the pavilion roof of the tower section are covered with red-brown glazed Dutch tiles; the roof of the garage extension is executed with an "owl board window". The main building has wooden dormers with tile-covered hipped roofs.

The villa has heavy wooden frames, both single and composite, fitted with casement windows; on the south facade two frames also fitted with casement doors, all executed with fine glazing bars and fitted with 1-panel shutters on the ground floor; on the facades on the sunny side fitted with venetian blinds. The entrance with arched, divided wooden door is located on the north facade of the main building in a lower extension.

Garage and scullery have on the northern facade respectively double and single arched, wooden doors. On the south side this extension is provided with a veranda.

On the north facade of the tower section is a cast concrete tablet with the name "SCHOUWENBURGH", a coat of arms and the building year 1938.

The interior, still virtually entirely in its original condition from the time of construction, is executed entirely in accordance with the architecture in the craftsmanlike, traditional and intimate style of the Delft School.

On the ground floor and upper storey a corridor along the north facade; the living spaces are situated on the south facade and in the tower section. In particular the spaces on the ground floor are provided with richly and craftily executed woodwork (cupboards, wall panelling, frames etc.) and various ceiling treatments: principal and secondary roof trusses, more or less flat wooden panel ceilings and in the study in the tower section a wooden barrel-shaped ceiling. The main colour on the ground floor is dark red, and on the upper storey green. All interior elements designed by the architect.

The original garden layout, to the architect's design, with amongst other things a small formal section and a drive-way running around in front of the entrance, is still largely present.

Valuation

Large, well-preserved villa in Delft School style in both exterior and interior respects with associated garden layout, located at a landscape-historically distinctive transitional location. Both the architecture and location are characteristic of the building period and the development history of the area; as such an object of typological and architectural-historical value and as a rich, complete style representative of rare value for Zeeland.