"""De schaffelaar"""

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING (De Schaffelaar). By order of J.H. baron van Zuylen, the house was built in 1852 (see stone plaque approximately 1 metre above ground level) in English Neo-Gothic style to a design of 1852 by the 's-Hertogenbosch architect A. van Veggel, who however based himself strongly on an anonymous design from 1841. The house was situated to the southwest of the original building site (Koeweide), separate from the existing formal layout. This new siting was based on a sight line in a south-westerly direction to the tower of the Reformed Church of Barneveld. Between 1977 and 1981 the house was restored under the direction of architect W.A. Heineman from Velp. During this restoration the tower, which had been demolished after the Second World War, was reconstructed and the roof renewed with old German slate. The house, erected on a hook-shaped plan on a rusticated base, consists of a basement and two storeys with the most representative and plastically designed façade facing the front – oriented towards the village of Barneveld – and the flatter designed façades on the sides. The brick façades, which are terminated by crenellations, are all ornamented with elements resembling natural stone, with dressed and plastered details, such as window mouldings, roof lines, pinnacles, gargoyles and drip mouldings which mark the different storeys. During the 1977-1981 restoration a number of these elements were replaced with solid concrete. All windows are set within a moulding and feature robust glazing bar tracery in Tudor forms with a quatrefoil in the fanlight; all frames are executed entirely in cast iron. The symmetrically articulated front façade of five broad bays has a projecting central section and slightly projecting side sections, which project above the roof line with a gable. The side risalientes are flanked by square (blind) towers with spandrels and crenellations, while the central risaliente is provided with corbels at the corners. In front of each risaliente is a three-sided projecting single-storey oriel/portico. In the side façades of the central risaliente are narrow windows. The main entrance in the central risaliente is reached via the three-sided portico with centrally an arched Gothic-arched façade opening flanked by pointed-arched openings; this rhythm/design language is repeated in the double glazed entrance door with a pointed-arch recess on either side. The portico is finished with a decorated roof line and crowned by an elaborate balustrade in quatrefoil motif; above it a second balcony with crenellations and a tracery of three-lobed arches marking the top of the central risaliente. The oriels facing the side risalientes are crowned by crenellations (brick/natural stone). The left side façade of four bays and the right side façade of five bays have a regular window arrangement. In the middle of the right side façade is an access section accentuated by corbels leading to a platform with double entrance door provided with fanlight in quatrefoil motif set within a rectangular moulding. The end gables at the rear are provided with blind windows (in accordance with the original design); in the middle of the rear façade a projection of the stairwell, also on the left side thereof. In the INTERIOR are noteworthy, among other things, the well-preserved original floor plan and spatial arrangement with a central hall and stairwell on the axis separated from each other by means of a transverse corridor, hall and passage with marble and the well-preserved Tudor/Neo-Gothic interior design carried throughout the entire house (NB the finishing is not entirely complete): the hall with stuccoed hanging vaults, two wall consoles, at the transition from hall to corridor a framework with three arches originally with stained glass, the stairwell with balustrade; richly decorated rooms with stucco ceilings, wooden wall panelling/wainscotting and marble chimney mantels; window frames of cast iron clad with wooden cladding pieces; partly wooden panelled doors and posts. In the basement is a water cellar and service rooms which are barrel-vaulted in brick.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (De Schaffelaar) of general importance:

- by reason of its age;

- by reason of its design in English Neo-Gothic style, which is virtually unique for the Netherlands;

- by reason of the exceptional material use – combination of brick, dressed and plastered brick, cast iron – and the ornamentation;

- by reason of the coherence and integrity of the interior and exterior and the well-preserved floor plan and interior decoration;

- by reason of its image-defining position in the garden and park layout and in relation to the village centre of Barneveld (orientation to the tower of the Reformed Church);

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