Beeckestijn

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. The whitewashed brick country house is situated with its front façade facing northeast and built on a rectangular ground plan in two storeys on a natural stone plinth; in 1772, rectangular projecting additions with Bentheimer sandstone cladding were added to the north and south corners of the front façade, which have less depth than the original building; these rectangular additions are bevelled at the corners - approximately in the middle of the side façade; at the south/west corner a rectangular extension has been placed, also of two storeys and clad with Bentheimer sandstone; only the section at the north/west corner is cellared. The house has a hipped roof running around it with a transverse gabled roof in the middle, parallel to the front façade; on the extension a gabled roof with front hip has been placed, and the two projecting sections added in 1772 beside the front façade are provided with flat roofs; the hipped and gabled roofs are covered with pantiles; at the corners of the hipped roof and the roof above the extension there are chimneys, topped with boards with cast-iron ornamental caps, and in the middle of the front roof section a belfry has been installed, which consists of four Tuscan columns, on which a pyramidal roof, covered with zinc and provided with a moulded cornice, and on the top a cast-iron ornament with a cross on a sphere. At the foot of the roofs a generously projecting moulded cornice with triglyphs on the middle and side projections, and panels on the sections between them; the front and rear façades also have modillions. In the middle of the front façade an elongated somewhat triangular superstructure with a single-handed clock in round surround; in the middle and at the edges of this superstructure scrolls in foliate ornament, and on each side a garland, held by a cherub figure at the base; in the triangle also flat bands that in a wavy line border a checkered field at the bottom; on top a bust of a bearded male figure; the sculpture is by Ignatius van Logteren (1685-1732).

The front façade has a slightly projecting central field between rusticated pilasters and within it an entrance section; the transition between projection and pilasters is curved; the entrance is placed between smooth pilasters with Ionic capitals, on which a main entablature with smooth frieze and a moulded cornice on consoles; between the surround of the pilasters, and that of the main entablature, and the door frame a right, and slanted rusticated moulding respectively; the double panelled door is provided with a fanlight with fill in the spandrels and round-arched glazed window with glazing bars; above the entrance a superstructure bearing the coat of arms of the Trip and Van Hoorn families, set in oval surround furnished with foliate ornament, below which a nameplate with the name Beeckestijn in a field bordered by bands with scrolls at the ends; on both sides of the door narrow windows with small glazing bars (ground floor 3x4 above, 3x5 below, first floor 3x3 above and below), and to the left and right of these two window-bay-wide façade sections, enclosed between rusticated pilasters, (glazing bars of each of the windows ground floor 6x4 above, 6x5 below, first floor 6x3 above and below); beside these the two projecting additions which are only one window-bay wide, also enclosed between pilasters, and whose front façades are executed in Bentheimer stone; the windows therein have glazing bars on the ground floor 5x4 above and 5x5 below, first floor 5x3 above and below. A new entrance has been created on the left side façade. The left side façade has in the addition of the front façade a window with glazing bars ground floor 5x4 above and 5x5 below, first floor 5x3 above and below; to the left of the new portal against the side façade an addition, and against the rear side of the 1772 extension of the rear façade, an L-shaped wall; the addition and the wall are both only one storey high; in this wall a simple boarded door, divided into lower and upper door; above the portal on the first floor a window with glazing bars 6x3 above and below, as well as in the corner between the side façade and the 1772 addition; on the ground floor and the first floor the rear façade of this addition has windows with glazing bars of 5x3 above and below; the addition to the left of the new portal has windows with glazing bars of 4x4 above and 5x4 below. The rear façade shows how through the addition on the right side the various roof slopes on the roof have come about and the façade is no longer symmetrical; the roof slopes of the section far left (and the corresponding part to the right thereof) are equilateral, that of the addition on the right is isosceles; on the roof three roof dormers with small glazing bars and cheeks; in the section from before 1772 they are situated directly above the windows below, not in the middle of the roof slope. This rear façade is to be divided into four sections, three of which are vertically bounded by rusticated pilasters; the fourth section has smooth pilasters beside the double door (and the window above it); this section has triglyphs on the frieze, the other three have triglyphs and panels; these three also have slightly recessed spandrel fields. The recessed section to the left of the middle has a double glazed door with moulded and accordingly curved upper lintel plus intermediate casement window; above it a window in rusticated surround with glazing bars above 5x3, below 5x4; beside the door on both sides narrow windows with on the ground floor above 3x4, below 3x5, first floor 3x3 above 3x4 below; both to the left and right of this recessed section the sections with windows ground floor 7x4 above, 7x5 below, on the first floor 7x3 above, 7x4 below. The right section built in 1772 projects slightly further forward and has the same windows as the other two sections. The right side façade has two windows in the 1772 addition with small glazing bars (ground floor 5x4 above, 5x5 below, first floor 5x3 above and below); the four remaining windows have the same glazing bars (ground floor 7x4 above and below, first floor 7x3 above and below).

The layout of the house is as follows: in the middle a hall which flows into the passage which leads into a second - smaller - hall, where the flights of stairs to the first floor are located, and the double door to the garden; beside this hall, passage and second hall, arranged without symmetry, rooms with the functions of antechamber, dining room, garden room and salon, and sitting room, boudoir, and porcelain cabinet respectively; furthermore the wardrobe and the kitchen. The chimneypieces in the dining room and the wardrobe are the original ones, the others have been brought here from elsewhere. The stuccowork in the hall has been partially renewed; the figures in the niches in the front hall (a Bacchante and an Abundantia) and the ceiling pieces in this hall, in the passage and the rear hall have been renewed; the damaged original stuccowork of the front and rear hall (Venus and Apollo, executed by Ignatius van Logteren) have been moved to the outbuildings; above the doors of the front hall portrait heads in stucco of classical male figures. On the first floor, due to alterations made for the current use of the house, no historical layout is present; the stucco ceilings, timber panelling and wainscoting are of historical value.