Bijgebouwen kastelen enz., Rijksstraatweg bij 147

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Description

PAVILION.

Pavilion on a rectangular ground plan with cut-off corners. On the cut-off corners are located Ionic pilasters, each interrupted by two bands with a drip moulding-like decoration. The wooden walls are built on a sandstone plinth on a brick base. The pavilion is covered with a bell roof on a rectangular base, with on the transition from the concave to convex form a moulding. On the left side of the north-western gable three semi-circular sandstone steps provide access to the entrance section, consisting of a panel door surrounded by an arched moulding. In the four gables double 8-pane windows, placed in vertically-divided frames and fitted with wooden shutters. The walls are divided by heavily moulded mouldings. Above each window a decorated field with acanthus leaves and scroll ornaments in Louis XIV style, below each window a curved panel furnished with scrolls and on the sides leaf-shaped ornaments. On either side of the windows arched moulded panels. Interior: on the four cut-off corners are located pilasters with Ionic capitals behind which cupboards are concealed. Above the capitals and along all walls runs a cornice. The pilasters are white marbled, as is the moulding above the walls. Above the cornice shell-like stuccoed decorations are located in the corners. The ceiling dome is white stuccoed and has rich Louis XIV decorations. The floor now consists of Oregon pine sections of varying width, which are provided with a perforation in ornamental motif for underfloor heating. The external walls are painted in soft sandstone colours (grey), the bands are ochre yellow as are the roof cornice and the moulding in the bell roof. On the interior the walls are painted in Berlin blue, the original colour which was found during the restoration.

It was probably Jacob Valckenier, who came into possession of Valkenheining in 1700 through inheritance, who had the richly ornamented pavilion built situated south-west of the house. This pavilion, together with the simpler pavilion of Slot Zeist, belongs to the oldest preserved in our country, is clearly recognizable on an etching from 1730 (by A. Rademaker, Hollands Arcadia, 1730). The pavilion was in any case built before 1730. It is not improbable that the pavilion has a construction date around 1700 and that it was designed by Daniël Marot (see: M.D. Ozinga, Daniël Marot, Amsterdam 1938). In the 1960s the pavilion was in very poor condition and was temporarily demolished and stored. After a long restoration period the pavilion was restored to its former splendour around 1977.