Heukelum

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1: Main building (castle Heukelum) (Heidensweg 1; indicated on the accompanying map with no. 1).

In 1672 the medieval castle was destroyed. Only the gatehouse tower remained. In the years after 1734 a new house was built on a rectangular ground plan. The house stands on an island within the retaining walls of the medieval castle, where the foundation of the round corner tower in the northeast has been made visible again after restoration and is accessible via a drawbridge (see component 5 for this). The house consists of three storeys with an attic: a low basement storey with above it a piano nobile, a first storey and an attic under a hipped roof with pantile cladding and chimneys at the corners. Of the originally medieval castle the entrance gateway is a remnant. This is built in red brick, with buttress-like attachments at the front. The tower has a crenellated breastwork with two corbelled turrets between which brickwork. It is crowned by an 18th-century octagonal dome with spire. Central on the front facade an elaborately worked entrance consisting of a pilaster frame containing a door with twisted central muntins and fanlight with palmette decoration and glazing bars. The storey window has a head moulding with dentils and a fanlight with glazing bars, made in 1826. To the left of the entrance is a marble sundial in Louis XV forms. The rear facade likewise has an elaborately worked entrance section with a simple stepped stair platform from this period. In front, side and rear facades eight- and six-pane windows. The interior has a central corridor on all storeys and a transverse corridor directly behind the gatehouse tower with the staircase on the left side. In the basement storey are the kitchen with simple joist ceiling and granito floor (XXa) on the left (west) and cellars with flat barrel vaults between rib arches (1826-1827) on the east side. The central corridor on the piano nobile is laid with hardstone slabs. The corridor, symmetrically divided by doors and niches, is throughout its entire length provided with stucco decorations on walls and ceilings in Régence style. The oak panelled doors opening onto the corridor have moulded frames and projecting upper mullions. To the right front a salon with china cabinet and panelled wainscoting (18th century), figural stucco ceiling and fireplace (1821). Beyond this the hall with simple joist ceiling, 18th-century panelled wainscoting, 18th-century hunting-scene painted hessian cladding (signed 'Roest'), marble fireplace with chimney breast from 1884 in neo-Louis XIV forms. Above the fireplace a still life of flowers from 1884 by A. van Hogendorp-'s Jacob. To the left front a room with 18th-century panelled wainscoting, figural stucco ceiling and marble fireplace from the first quarter of the 19th century. Alcove surrounded with neo-17th-century wainscoting. To the left rear, above the kitchen, the dining room with simple joist ceiling and marble fireplace. Blind doors. Between the two rooms a small space under the staircase that served as a service kitchen. Here the food lift from the kitchen emerged. The rooms on the storey are all provided with panelled wainscoting. The tower room in the centre front was in 1927 provided with an oak wainscoting with panel and fittings work, a 17th-century fireplace with sandstone herms and carved oak chimney breast with pastoral scenes. The construction of the dome consists of eight half-trusses against a ring beam structure. In the dome a mechanical clockwork is installed (1950, firm De Klok from Aarle Rixtel) with striking bell from 1749 by Ciprianus Crans Iansz. from Amsterdam.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING (Castle Heukelum) belonging to the historic country estate Heukelum is of exceptional cultural-, architectural-historical and urban-planning importance:

- on account of its age;

- on account of the visible medieval remains at gatehouse tower, retaining wall and foundation with round corner tower;

- on account of the well-preserved 18th-century house in its design and structure;

- on account of the 18th-century layout and important 18th- and 19th-century interior components of the house;

- on account of its location in a park layout within a structure of pathways and open spaces dating back to the Middle Ages;

- on account of the visual relationship with the town of Heukelum;

- on account of the visual and functional spatial relationship with the other components of the country estate.