Huis te Baest

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING, House at Baest. Now plastered (front facade) and otherwise whitewashed red brick house on a rectangular plan of a single undercellared storey under a high slate-covered gabled roof, originally dating from the 16th century and older. It is known that the house was plundered by Maarten van Rossum in the 16th century and was rebuilt in 1548. At this rebuild, partial use was made of the foundation of the stone chamber originally situated here (walls 150 cm thick). In 1854 the house was provided with the current rear building. At the roof ends a rectangular chimney (above which, as a replica of the 16th-century situation, a steel cap with gilded ball) and centrally on the house a 6-sided bell tower (clockwork) under a cupola with gilded weathervane, presumably installed in 1854, replacing a higher pointed and Gothic model (image 1818). The slate covering dates from 1854; previously the roof was covered with red tiles. In 1854 the moat was also filled in; the moat section at the rear was then provided with the current quay wall and was dug out to the current pond feature in landscape style. Front (west) facade: centrally a monumental double entrance door with double star-shaped fanlight framed by block pilasters and closed off by a cornice. The entrance area is preceded by a sandstone step. On either side of the entrance two tall multi-pane sash windows with shutters. Above the entrance a double 6-pane opening roof dormer window, under a tympanum, with richly worked volute-shaped cheeks. On the rear right side of the house the rear building realised in 1854, two storeys high, under a slate-covered gabled roof. Right side facade: on the ground floor three tall 20-pane windows (one of which a sash window) with shutters. Centrally on the upper storey three 16-pane sash windows, provided with shutters. In the gable a multi-pane window with shutters. The adjoining side facade of the rear building shows on the ground floor and on the upper storey a multi-pane window with shutters. Rear of rear building: on the right an entrance door under a cornice preceded by a sandstone platform with wrought-iron railings. To the left of this entrance two multi-pane windows with shutters. On the upper storey two multi-pane windows with shutters and above the entrance an oeil de boeuf with star-shaped window. In the facade on both sides of the entrance two wall stones with on the left M.DLC 1854 and on the right C.VDMDLL 1954, the latter installed at the restoration of the house in 1954. Right side facade of rear building ground floor and on the upper storey a multi-pane window with shutters. Rear facade main building two tall multi-pane windows with shutters. Left facade main building: on the ground floor a tall multi-pane window with shutters. On the upper storey four multi-pane windows and in the gable a single multi-pane window.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING of the historic country estate Baest is of general cultural-historical importance

- as a well-preserved example of a sober and robust 16th-century nobleman's house as the centre of a landed estate and country seat;

- owing to the 19th- and 20th-century enrichments to the house, which illustrate the development of the house as the centre of a historic country estate since the end of the 18th century;

- owing to the architectural integrity;

- owing to the age;

- owing to the beauty.