Zandbergen

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING (Zandbergen). On the Amersfoortseweg stands the brick house Zandbergen, which was built around 1754 in sober classical style. In 1920 architect J.W. Hanrath extended the house with a conservatory against the west facade, a rectangular extension with the staircase against the east facade and a double front steps against the south facade. During this renovation the glazing bars of the windows were also removed. The building, erected on a rectangular plan with rusticated corner pilasters, consists of a basement and two storeys, closed off by a corniced cornice under a hipped roof with Dutch tiles and built-in corner chimneys. The facades are regularly designed with multi-pane sash windows, casement windows in the basement and dormers with pilasters and carved corner brackets. The seven-bay front facade has a symmetrical layout with a three-sided central projection, whose side surfaces are slightly curved and recessed slightly. The central projection is covered by a small hipped roof and crowned by an iron weather vane. Centrally there is a double entrance door with an arched fanlight set in a baroque surround decorated with curved scrollwork. The dormer also has a baroque surround with canopy and carved corner brackets. The rear facade is five bays wide with a lightly projecting central section with a simply framed entrance door with fanlight. The door is accessed via a rectangular front steps built in 1920 by architect Hanrath. The front steps has brick piers with natural and artificial stone detailing and ironwork. The middle dormer of this facade is crowned by a bronze small bell. Against the right side facade a rectangular veranda-like conservatory has been added consisting of natural stone columns that carry a cornice with a baluster balcony above it. The columns stand on a high brick base with steps on the left side. The left side facade has centrally a rectangular extension of three bays behind which is the staircase. In the central projection there is a front steps with the entrance door with side lights set in a simple surround that carries a balcony with iron balustrade. A double door opens onto the balcony with above the door a tall arched window, which provides light for the staircase. On either side of this central section there is a window area consisting of a nine-pane window and an elongated multi-pane window. In the INTERIOR are of importance among other things the additions that Hanrath made in 1920, namely beside the entrance the large hall with monumental oak fireplace and stately staircase with balusters in Marot style; the rear room with wood panelling; the former gentlemen's room with wood panelling and seventeenth-century fireplace (1688), which comes from elsewhere. Original eighteenth-century elements are the framed panelled doors.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Zandbergen) is of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because of the architectural design in simple classical style which is characteristic of the 18th century;

- because of the early 20th-century renovation of the interior (wood panelling, staircase and fireplace section) and the exterior (conservatory, extension, front steps) by architect Hanrath;

- because of its characteristic location within the historic garden and park layout;

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