Kerckebosch

English translation

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Description

Description complex component 1

The COUNTRY HOUSE, situated at a considerable distance and at an angle to the Arnhemse Bovenweg, is built on a complex ground plan and comprises two storeys beneath a complex gabled roof with half-hipped ends, furnished with swept plain tiles, with the ridge running parallel to the front and rear facades. At the corners of the ridge are chimneys with ornamental ironwork. The roof section at the rear facade is interrupted by small roof dormers with hipped rooflets. The facades are constructed from various types of brick, including reused cloister bricks.

The front or west facade is characterized by a projecting tower of three storeys with crenellations and a steeply pitched hipped roof covered with slate. The facade contains ornamental wall anchors and a dentil course. The ground floor has a window frame with arched head containing French doors as well as windows and a fanlight with star-shaped glazing bars. On the first floor is a window in hard stone rococo surround with ornamental vases in relief and a wrought-iron railing. The second floor contains six coupled windows, separated by wall piers, with arched heads beneath a complex hard stone lintel. The facades of the main volume on either side of the tower are identical in design. On the ground floor there are closed-off verandas furnished with columns in fantasy style and French doors. The flat roof is screened by a wooden balustrade and is accessible on the floor above via French doors. This facade also contains crenellations.

Recent extensions have been added to the left side facade, which fall outside the protection. This facade contains on the right the windows of the veranda, separated by pilasters. The main volume contains on the first floor eight window bays, of which the middle six are placed at equal distances from one another. The windows are sash windows. At this location the facade is built higher and above these windows there is still a series of six windows, provided with a pointed-arch motif in the window frame.

The rear facade is originally symmetrical in design and contains in the center a gable with slight projection beneath a gabled roof with half-hipped end. This gable contains a large neo-gothic half-window. On either side of the gable are on the first floor rose windows. On the ground floor on the left is a French window with leaded glass and shutters. To the left of the gable is a tower of three storeys built on beneath a tent roof with overhanging, passing-through roof sections. The tower contains on three sides partly coupled steel windows and pointed-arch windows. To the right of the tower is on the ground floor an extension which falls outside the protection. However, within the protection is the renaissance portal with the motto of Lintelo de Geer: 'Rien sans Cause' (nothing without cause). On the left the facade contains an extension with a veranda furnished with a baluster railing. The facade contains an arched wooden door, a standing oval window and a small window with leaded glass (see interior). The right side of the building has on the ground floor an extension of one storey beneath a flat roof, bordered with a baluster railing. The facades are provided with rusticated masonry corner pilasters and natural stone base and closing stones. The facade on the first floor is six window bays wide. Above the sash windows are windows fitted with glazing bars and pointed-arch motif. The facade is terminated by crenellations and is furnished with masonry pilasters with reused natural stone capitals.

The interior is important because of the nearly original ground plan arrangement of the ground floor, the hall on the first floor and because of the decoration dating from the period of construction with numerous antique objects incorporated in the various rooms. Among the important features in the interior, arranged by room, for example in the hall: neo-gothic elements, including stair railing with pointed arches; cross vault among other things decorated with stars; tie beams with seventeenth/eighteenth-century consoles in the form of putto heads; fireplace with family coat of arms (of the commissioner) and relief with painted depiction of the coach house of Kerckebosch; affixed door with wrought-iron knocker (from Utrecht Cathedral); eighteenth-century door with glazing bars; wrought-iron chandelier (dating from the period of construction); relief of Saint Martin by sculptor Swillens; hearthstone with depiction of a stag; two granite reliefs (grave stones) with representations of the knights Roger and Taille Fer; three canvas paintings of nobles, fixed in niches in the wall along the staircase; balustrade with baluster railing; tile panels with cow and ornamental vases; large pointed-arch window with leaded glass depicting medieval hunting scenes and the coats of arms of Zeist and Amsterdam, made by H. Liefkes in The Hague.

In the former office are among other things of value: the panel wainscoting; a fireplace with seventeenth-century tiles; wood sculptures with the Dutch lion; side panels with seventeenth-century paintings; an eighteenth-century staircase; a leaded glass painting (H. Liefkes) depicting a nobleman; a stucco ceiling with cornice, containing consoles and moulded strips; a console of red sandstone. In the former dining room: a beam ceiling with tie beams decorated with ram heads; grooved panels with male figures; an eighteenth-century partition door with the upper panel furnished with garlands, moulded cornice with dentil course, egg-and-dart moulding and bows; the panel wainscoting; manganese-coloured and blue tile panels, including flower vases and sea creatures; eighteenth-century panel doors and wainscoting in the extension; leaded glass windows with fish; wooden, presumably seventeenth-century consoles with female heads, leaded glass coats of arms (1697, 1671); a baluster railing with leaded glass. In the room to the east of the former office are among other things of value: the panel wainscoting and beam ceiling; a door with rosettes; a panel door with hinges; a standing oval window with glazing bars; wooden reliefs with a ram head, the coat of arms of Amsterdam and the coat of arms of Hoorn. In the former salon are of value: the fireplace with pilasters fitted with herms and caryatids and cornice; the wainscoting in rococo style (eighteenth century); the stucco ceiling. In the former living room are of importance: the wooden columns with marbled shafts and composite capitals; the fireplace with wooden panels and putti; the panel wainscoting; the beam ceiling.

Valuation complex component 1

The country house 't Kerckebosch is of cultural-historical value as an expression of the romantic ideals of jonkheer De Geer, who had his country house built in various phases in imitation of castle style; furthermore, the object is of considerable value because of the rarity of the interior, whose details have been preserved in their entirety intact. The object is of ensemble value because of its relationship with the coach house.