Leyduin

English translation

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Description

Description

Built in 1921 to the design of A. de Maaker, a detached MAIN HOUSE on the historic country estate "Leyduin". The main building, constructed on a rectangular floor plan, consists of a ground floor, first storey and attic storey. On the south side of the property there is an original extension on a rectangular floor plan of one storey height under a flat roof. The property is partially cellaried.

The property, constructed in red brick on a dark brick-laid plinth, is covered by a truncated hipped roof with somewhat projecting roof tiles, which is clad with grey Dutch tiles. On the east and south facades, the slightly taller projecting central risalit is terminated by an inset hipped roof cap with projecting roof tiles. The inset hipped roof cap at the east facade is crowned by an open-worked wooden cupola with lead cladding. On the four roof ridge corners stand square brick chimneys with roof caps. In the eastern, southern and western roof tiles there are two roof dormers, and in the northern roof tile there is one roof dormer. These original roof dormers are of wood and clad with zinc on the sides. The roof dormers have multi-part windows with glazing bars and are crowned by a semicircular wooden pediment.

The masonry of the property is accentuated on the outer corners by pilasters with block motif. Running all around above the facades is a white-painted wooden cornice with guttae.

The front facade (E) is three bays wide. The middle projecting bay is taller. This middle bay possesses the original entrance consisting of a glazed double-opening door with arched fanlight, which is accessed by means of a three-step hardstone steps platform. The entrance is framed by a sandstone pilaster arrangement with Corinthian capital. The pilaster arrangement continues on the storeys into a richly detailed sandstone ornamental frame with scrollwork and similar, which frames a wooden sash window on the first storey and a wooden casement window at the height of the attic storey. To the left and right of this central entrance arrangement there is, in the central risalit, on the ground floor, first storey and attic storey, a narrow wooden sash or casement window. The two side bays of the front facade each have two window axes with, both on the ground floor and first storey, wooden sash windows.

The southern side facade is three bays wide, whereby the middle projecting bay is slightly taller. At the height of the ground floor there is, along this side facade, an original brick extension under a flat roof. The southern side facade itself has on the ground floor on the east side one wooden sash window. On the first storey the side facade has in the left bay one wooden casement window in two parts with fanlight, in the middle bay a set of six narrow wooden sash windows three by three stacked one above the other, and in the right bay two wooden sash windows. The extension, which contains the kitchen, is closed above along its length by a white-painted wooden cornice. The extension has on the west side three wooden sash windows and on the south side one wooden sash window. The middle of the southern facade wall of the extension projects slightly inward and thus forms the entrance to the kitchen. Here, next to a wooden door with fanlight, there are two wooden sash windows. On the east side, the extension is open-worked and thus forms a loggia. This loggia is supported by three painted natural stone columns and two painted natural stone half-columns. The columns rest on a brick platform with hardstone capping. On the east side, the platform is accessible by means of a three-step brick and hardstone staircase. On the south side, the loggia is, between a column and half-column, closed with a glazed window frame set in wood.

The rear facade (W) is three bays wide. The three-sided projecting central risalit is terminated above the cornice by a three-sided brick structure under a flat roof. This structure, which contains three wooden sash windows, is closed above along its length by a white-painted wooden cornice which in the middle bulges out into a richly ornamented shell shape. The three-sided projecting central risalit possesses on both the ground floor and first storey on each side a wooden sash window, with the exception of the middle side on the ground floor where there is a double-opening glazed door with fanlight. The left and right bays of the rear facade each have one window axis. In the right bay this window axis contains on both the ground floor and first storey a wooden sash window. In the left bay there is on the ground floor a wooden sash window and on the first storey a wooden casement window in two parts with fanlight.

The northern side facade is three window axes wide. The middle window axis, which comprises an entrance, is slightly projecting. The entrance, consisting of a double wooden door with fanlight, is accessed by means of a two-step natural stone platform. The entrance is framed by a sandstone pilaster arrangement with Corinthian capital. This pilaster arrangement continues on the first storey into a richly detailed sandstone frame with scrollwork and similar, which frames a wooden sash window. The remaining two window axes in the north facade have on the ground floor a wooden casement window in two parts with fanlight and on the first storey a wooden sash window.

All windows of the property have at the bottom a hardstone drip moulding and have, as do the glazed doors of the property, a multi-part wooden glazing bars. The interior of the property is still intact as to layout. Of the original interior components there remain, among other things, the oak-wood fireplaces (which have, however, been painted) and the oak-wood staircase on the south side of the property.

Valuation

The MAIN HOUSE is of general importance on account of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value, being the main building of the Leyduin complex which was built in 1921 in a historicizing style which goes back to the late 17th-century and early 18th-century Dutch brick classicism, and on account of its distinctive location and ensemble value with respect to the complex. Furthermore, the object is of importance within the oeuvre of architect A. de Maaker.