Berkenbosch

English translation

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Description

In 1644 Berkenbosch is referred to as a farmstead, Jacob Boreel (1630-1697) is the owner at that time; in 1717 Berkenbosch is sold to Willem van Sonsbeek, there are two houses on it, barns, woods, tree-lined avenues, gardens and ponds. After a house situated by the four ponds was demolished, a neo-classical manor house was built in 1862 on commission of Mayor J.G. Sprenger slightly further north. The house is situated on the east side of the country house and is also positioned with the entrance on that side; the terrace and balcony of the house face south.

The plastered house of two storeys on a rectangular ground plan is covered by a hipped roof with close-laid tiles. Simple cornice running around. The windows on the ground floor are sash windows with a glazing bar division of 4x2, those on the upper floor have a 3x2 division; all windows have descending shoulders with ornaments in terracotta. The east façade with central projection has five bays; in the middle bay is the entrance formed by a double glass door in a fluted surround; the fanlight is placed in an extra surround with a symmetrical central motif in which a cartouche; curled foliage both there and at the sides; the remaining windows on the ground floor have the same surround; the five windows on the upper floor have a central motif at the top and a moulding with descending shoulders around the fanlight. The south façade is four bays wide and has a built-on balcony on five cast-iron columns, provided with base and capital; on the ground floor four double terrace doors with closed panels at the bottom and above them 3-pane windows in each door and at the top a divided fanlight under descending shoulders; the terrace under the balcony is laid with yellow-black tiles in a lozenge pattern; the balcony is provided with a cast-iron balustrade; four upper floor windows with descending shoulders, central motif and surround of the fanlight. The west façade is eight bays wide (including the two of the extension) with seven windows with glazing bar division 2x4 and central motif, of which the two windows on the right have blinds; the third bay from the left contains the back entrance with a double glass door and fanlight with tree of life motif. To the north façade is added a stair to the flat roof of the extension, as well as a stair from the flat to the loft; the east façade of the extension has a wooden door with glass panes and fanlight with 2-pane glazing bar division; there stands a water pump.

The roof dormers that existed in the sixties of this century have been replaced by rooflights set in the roof plane.

INTERIOR Marble floor in the hall; to the left of the entrance two high rooms en suite, each with the same stucco ceiling with central motif of leaf and scrollwork; double wooden revolving doors as intermediate doors; wooden interior shutters.