Rhijnestein

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING belonging to the country estate Rhijnestein. Located to the south, originally a free-standing square residential tower built in brick dating to around 1300, consisting of a basement covered with a barrel vault, ground floor, two storeys and an attic storey under a mansard roof covered with slate in Rhine bond, modified in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and in 1873-1874 extended on the north side with a three-bay-wide brick residential house on a rectangular ground plan consisting of a basement, ground floor and first storey, on a natural stone plinth under a slate-covered hipped roof and in 1887 a northern flat-roofed square brick residential tower was built consisting of basement, ground floor, two storeys, forming an almost symmetrical-appearing main building. The architect of this renovation is not known.

In the second half of the nineteenth century the moats were relocated. The medieval tower has diagonal arrow slits on the second and third storeys. In the roof truss structure are two oak timbers; further remains of a spiral staircase. The middle section projecting slightly at the front has plastered pilasters, the middle section projecting more strongly at the rear stands on a plinth and has only corner pilasters; both façades are finished with a straight cornice. Nineteenth-century tower crownings with crenellations; the southern tower is decorated with an ogival arch frieze, the northern tower with a round-arch frieze accentuated with natural stone corbels. The façades are articulated by nineteenth-century sash windows, casement windows and multi-pane windows and several access doors. The ogival arch windows in the medieval residential tower were inserted at a later date. Main entrance in the right bay of the middle house with natural stone stairway, lanterns and stair rail. The medieval residential tower has on the rear side a three-sided bay projection with double doors opening onto a small balcony, which is openworked with neo-Gothic trefoil arch tracery. On the second storey a large balcony, provided with the same neo-Gothic decoration; against the façade timber cladding and eaves cornice with wind vanes with openworked trefoil arch. At the front two decorated roof dormers.

In the interior the nineteenth-century layout has been preserved in good condition, in the interior there are among other things stucco ceilings and wainscoting of significance; sliding mirror wall; mantels with refined papier-mâché decoration; conservatory with central heating system; basement bathroom with hot water system and zinc bath; painted woodwork in the hall on the ground floor and the first storey; marble and tile floors which were probably installed during the restoration in 1873-1874.

NB On the rear side, between the middle wing and the nineteenth-century tower, against the projecting side façade a lift shaft has been installed which falls outside the protection.

Valuation

Main building belonging to the country estate Rhijnestein of general importance:

- on account of its age;

- on account of the architectural design influenced by neo-Gothic;

- on account of the high degree of integrity of the exterior and the almost perfectly preserved interior and interior layout;

- on account of the almost original ground plan;

- on account of the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the country estate;

- on account of the characteristic location within the late-nineteenth-century small-scale park layout in landscape style with various sight lines.