Loenersloot

English translation

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Description

Description component 1

MAIN HOUSE of the complex historic country estate Loenersloot. The castle Loenersloot, situated on an almost square castle island and originally dating from the late 13th and 14th centuries, acquired its present appearance through major alterations in the period 1772-1777 and around 1900. The partly cellared castle has an almost U-shaped floor plan and consists of a cylindrical residential tower surrounded by organically grown residential buildings; the tower probably dates from the second half of the 13th century and was extended around the first half of the 14th century on the east side with a cellared hall building with gabled roof. In the second half of the 14th century a non-cellared residential storey was placed perpendicular to this wing and probably also at this time a shallow, cellared two-storey wing was erected on the south side of the tower. In the 16th century some alterations were made to the castle, as well as in 1630 and in the period 1648-1653. Which changes were made to the house at that time is not precisely known. In 1766 Hendrik Willem van Hoorn purchased Loenersloot. He found the building outdated and prepared a large-scale modernization; the curtain wall was demolished, as was the gate building on the outer ward, and the moat around the outer ward was partly filled in. In 1771 he went bankrupt and the renovation of the castle will not yet have been carried out. The next owner of Loenersloot was Mr Andries Jan Strick van Linschoten (1736-1806), married in 1765 to Catharina Geertruida Coenen van 's-Gravesloot. For five years, from 1772 to 1777, Strick had his newly acquired property substantially altered. Loenersloot was to become a comfortable country house and acquired largely its present appearance in this period. The work was undertaken by the Utrecht master carpenter Hendrik van Doornenburg and the master mason Albert Maag. The cross windows were moved and replaced by sash windows, the east wing retained, with the exception of the replacement of the gable tops with hipped roofs, its old form. The entrance portico was demolished and replaced by a new entrance hall, which was provided with a front facade on the side of the inner courtyard. The alteration of the adjoining north wing was also substantial: the wing was given an additional storey while the entire facade on the side of the inner courtyard was demolished and replaced by a wall with a somewhat different outline. Van Hoorn may have carried this out himself. Other parts of the house also underwent substantial changes. On the side of the inner courtyard a new vestibule was built. The kitchen, which until then was located in the south wing, was moved to an extension against the tower, so that it came to be located near the dining room in the east wing. Around 1900 a descendant of Strick van Linschoten, Paulus Hubert Andries Martini Buys (1835-1915), who around 1900 became intensively involved with the history of the castle, wanted to give the exterior a more 'medieval' appearance. The castle was stripped of plaster, the facades were provided with arch friezes at the top and the north side of the east facade was provided with a stepped gable. The sash windows were replaced again by the current wooden cross windows and the tower was provided with crenellations. The facades of the castle are provided with an irregular window and door arrangement including wooden cross windows and multi-pane sash windows under slightly arched stretches. The main entrance is located in the west facade and consists of a draught portico, situated above a natural stone staircase, above which is a large and slightly arched multi-pane fanlight, provided on either side with a sealed window in which a smaller arched window with glazing bars and shutter is placed, on the storey above are three windows, of which the middle one is an arched cross window and the outer windows are sealed, after which smaller windows were placed in them. Interior; The interior that is now still preserved dates almost entirely from the period 1772-1777. Thus, among other things, the chimney mantels of the dining room and a room on the storey were made by the stonemason Hendrik Ogert. The Italian stuccoist Francesco Peretti was commissioned to carry out the stuccowork on the chimneys. He also made the stucco ceilings in the hall, the anteroom, the corridor and in the stairwell. The carved work of the chimney in the dining room and the carved pieces above the doors were executed by the Utrecht sculptor Arnoldus Koopman. The still-existing interior of the hall and the dining room in the east wing also dates from the years 1772-1777 and is the work of the carpenter Hendrik van Doornenburg and Arnoldus Koopman. The particularly fine painted wallpapers were supplied by C. van Breezijn. The kitchen also still has the furnishings from 1773. These consist among other things of a large fireplace, a countertop, a cupboard and a peat box. The walls are tiled with white tiles.

Valuation

MAIN HOUSE (Castle Loenersloot) belonging to the historic country estate Loenersloot is of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because of its architectural design;

- because of the high degree of integrity of the exterior and interior;

- because of the almost original floor plan and arrangement of the interior spaces, making the building as such a characteristic and rare example of a castle originally dating from the late 13th and 14th centuries, which acquired its present character through alterations in the period 1772-1777 and around 1900;

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

- because of the distinctive location within the late 18th-century park design in (early) landscape style, created within a formal 17th-century structure.