Landfort

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1

MAIN BUILDING (Landfort). The main building, originally dating from the 17th century, was extended between 1825 and 1827 (see commemorative stones) with two quarter-round wings and remodelled in rural German classicistic style according to a design by architect J.T. Übbing from Anholt. The 17th-century core is formed by the walls, the oak timber beam layers of main and secondary beams, with the main beams supported by profiled consoles, and the well-preserved oak roof truss with carpenters' marks. The house with the rearward-curving wings consists of two storeys and an attic under a hipped roof covered with suppressed Dutch tiles. The central section features roof dormers with pediments, corner chimneys and a cupola with clock face and wrought-iron weathervane. The four corners of the facades are crowned with stone pinnacles. The symmetrically arranged, yellow rendered facades are crowned by a cornice and articulated by white rendered pilasters and six- and four-pane Empire windows set in rectangular profiled window surrounds with three-pane round-arch fanlights with curved glazing bars. The front facade of eleven window bays has in the centre a slightly projecting entrance section, articulated by Ionic pilasters and crowned by a pediment with coat of arms. The entrance consists of a double panelled door set in a round-arch recess with round-arch fanlight (curved glazing bar division) set in a frame of two columns with wooden capitals supporting a cornice. Above the door, also set in a round-arch recess, a four-pane window with round-arch fanlight. On either side of the door stands an outward-curving wrought-iron decorative fence and along the facade three stone bollards in a row connected to each other by chain links. The rear facade of thirteen window bays has in the centre a slightly projecting entrance section, articulated by Ionic pilasters with centrally a double glass door with round-arch fanlight flanked by two free-standing columns supporting a semicircular balcony with stone balusters. The columns stand on a semicircular natural stone terrace of three steps. In the curve of the left wing is a glass door opening onto the terrace with stone balusters; in the curve of the right wing are three six-pane windows (originally three glass doors opening to the orangery). The side facades have a regular window arrangement, partly executed as blind windows. INTERNALLY 17th-century cellars with barrel and groin vaults and the aforementioned 17th-century roof and beam layers.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Landfort) is of general importance:

- by reason of its age;

- as one of the rare examples of historicizing German classicistic architecture in the Netherlands;

- as an example of a work from the oeuvre of architect J.T. Übbing;

- by reason of the well-preserved 17th-century elements such as the cellars, beam layers and the oak roof with carpenters' marks;

- by reason of the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the country house.