Landhuis, Bekslaan 14

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING (Huis te Vogelenzang). Cubic seventeenth-century building, which in the second half of the eighteenth century was remodelled in classical style. The brick house with stone plinth consists of a basement and two storeys under a hipped roof covered with Old Dutch tiles. The facades are finished with straight cornices and have rusticated corner strips. On the ridge ends at the front stand two brick chimneys. The symmetrical five-bay wide front facade has a slightly projecting central axis, which is crowned by a simple bell in Louis XIV ornamentation. Stone steps lead to the moulded glazed access door with fanlight above which a moulded six-pane window. On either side of the entrance are two window axes provided with six-pane sash windows. The rear facade has an asymmetrically placed avant-corps of three bays under a hipped roof covered with Old Dutch tiles ending in a brick chimney. In the roof slope a roof dormer set in a moulding with cheeks. To the right of the projection is one window axis and to the left two irregularly placed windows. The facade is filled with six-pane windows. The side facades of the main building have three roof dormers identical to those of the rear facade. The right side facade is seven window bays wide with a projecting central section of three bays in which on the ground floor are three casement glazed garden doors on a four-step stone stoep. The left side facade has a central projection of four bays with an intermediate storey (above the kitchen) determined by the access door with fanlight and side-light (left) and three multi-pane windows with sunken entrances to the basement on either side. To the left of the projection a window axis consisting of two windows. Infill with multi-pane windows. In front of this facade a courtyard screened by a high plastered brick wall with in the centre the entrance between two pillars crowned by two seventeenth-century sandstone lions, which probably originate from the house at the Nieuwe Gracht in Haarlem. The wall is finished with a saddle back, partly with old glass shards. In the INTERIOR, among other things, the eighteenth-century room layout with long central corridor opening onto a large hall and rooms on either side of the corridor is important; eighteenth-century stucco ceilings; decoration from 1898; the kitchen with authentic interior consisting of cupboards, tiles, stove (bread oven), washroom; and the room layout of the basement provided with storage rooms, cupboards, two servant's rooms with bedstead and a billiard room.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Huis te Vogelenzang) of general importance: - because of the architectural design of the eighteenth-century main building in classical style; - because of the well-preserved eighteenth-century room layout; - because of the well-preserved interior decoration dating from 1898; - because of the characteristic location within the historic garden and park layout in landscape style; - because of the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the country house.