Buitenplaats Duinvliet

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING.

A. EXTERIOR:

After the house built north of the Domburgseweg, which bore the name Duinvliet, was demolished in 1815, the present villa was erected south of the same road in 1840 on a rectangular plan in two storeys and plastered with risalits slightly raised in the middle on the front and rear sides under a perimeter hipped roof covered with shingles; extended in 1900 with an additional storey on the side wings; the side wings are provided with flat roofs; the symmetrical front facade on a natural stone plinth is bounded by a corner chain at the ends and a simple cornice at the top; in front of the entrance a stone steps with two treads; on both sides of the steps on profiled natural stone bases a reclining sphinx; the entrance is framed by freestanding natural stone columns in Empire style with basement and palmette capitals, which carry a surrounding natural stone header with a joint on the corner; the entrance section itself is composed of a double glass door, flanked by a narrow window with fanlight; the fanlight of the double door has a curved upper soffit; the whole is set in a wooden profiled frame of which the pilasters have a natural stone block basement, capitals with palmettes and carry a triangular wooden pediment with carving; on the storey of the risalit a four-light window in profiled cross window under a header with a palmette frieze; both side wings have two facade openings with double glass doors on the ground floor and T-shaped stolp windows on the upper storey; in the facade openings of the risalit glass doors with fanlight with cast-iron decoration; in the side facades of the risalit narrow windows; in front of both side wings terraces (formerly covered) with late 19th-century tiles in brick border; in the roof of the risalit a roof dormer with stolp window under pediment. The east facade has some T-windows on the ground floor with low blind niches above them. The rear facade originally had six bays of which (after adding both extensions) three remain on the ground floor; on the right two terrace doors with venetian blinds, then followed by a recent extension, an access to the kitchen and the second recent extension; above the doors some blind niches; on the upper storey T-windows with stolp frames; in the roof of the risalit a roof dormer, identical to that of the front facade. The west facade is virtually blank above the one-storey high recent extension.

B. INTERIOR:

Valuable hall with stucco ceiling and cove; fireplace section in the corner with natural stone columns and oak-wood mantelpiece; oak-wood wainscoting and door frame surrounds; staircase in oak wood with Art Nouveau glass-in-lead against rear wall; ceiling and walls on the upper storey painted with floral Art Nouveau motifs; front room on upper storey with oak-wood fireplace under tile tableau with manganese-coloured so-called pilaster tiles.