Historische aanleg, Leidsestraatweg bij 75

English translation

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Description

HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT. A historic park layout from the late 17th century, well preserved in structure and partly in detail, within which lies a landscape park from the beginning of the 19th century. In the 17th century there was no question of a garden layout, but the infrastructure of that time, consisting of a number of avenues, watercourses and meadow lands, is still present today. The historic garden and park layout is characterized to the north of Marlot house by a half-oval-shaped chestnut avenue lying around a lawn, the most westerly part of which has somewhat deteriorated. On either side of the avenue are the former kitchen gardens, surrounded by three historic fruit walls and a 19th-century garden wall. Since 1927 tennis courts have been located in these gardens. To the south of the house lies a characteristic open meadow area - already shown on 17th-century maps - which is closed off to the south by a broad ditch with a bulge alongside which runs a vegetated verge. On the east side this meadow area is bounded by a broad ditch and from 1920 onwards also by the villa district Marlot. The western part of the layout consists of an elongated strip containing a landscape-style layout with winding paths and a winding pond. This layout probably dates from the period 1802-1828 and features varied vegetation with enclosed and open sections. In the south of this part a small hill has been raised, creating a viewpoint. In the south-east corner of the layout, as of 1996, several outbuildings (sheds etc.) falling outside the protection are used for keeping animals. Directly south of Marlot house lies a water feature with a widening at the level of Marlot house, which according to the topographic map of around 1850 was already present and over which lies a bridge from around 1920. In 1917 the municipality of 's-Gravenhage purchased the country estate Marlot and developed plans for this area that would greatly change the original character of the estate. From 1920 onwards the villa district Marlot was built on the eastern half of the estate. Directly beside Marlot house (to the south-west) a large tennis hall (see description component 8) in The Hague School style was built in 1927; this tennis hall was built in the former kitchen gardens, but does not substantially disturb the overall layout. In the north of the layout, as well as the tennis hall in place of the former kitchen gardens and partly surrounded by the historic fruit walls, tennis courts (now twelve) were laid out in 1927.

Evaluation

THE HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT of the historic country estate Marlot is of general importance:

- as a well-preserved example of a landscape-style park layout that came into being early in the 19th century within a 17th-century infrastructure that still largely exists today, composed of a number of avenues, watercourses and meadow lands, and which forms an atmosphere-enhancing decorum for the complex components of the estate;

- because of its importance for the history of garden and landscape architecture;

- because of the infrastructure dating from the time of its layout;

- because of the functional-spatial relationship with the components of the estate.