Huis Millen

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING (Huis Millen). On the east side of the moated castle grounds is a brick HOUSE situated, consisting of four buildings and two gatehouse buildings grouped around an elongated five-sided courtyard. The residential wing is located on the southeast side, to which a gatehouse (main entrance) with gatekeeper's lodge adjoins, followed by three outbuildings closed off by a gatehouse on the southwest side. Between this latter gatehouse and the residential wing stands a wall, so that the courtyard is completely enclosed. The 15th-century gatehouses and the core of the residential wing form the oldest components; extensions to the residential house took place in the 16th century and late 17th century (1699 according to date anchors), in the 18th century the construction of the coach houses (west) and in the first quarter of the 19th century the structure of the courtyard was established, with further additions in the course of the 19th century. The courtyard has a stone paving in which a cart track and gutters have been laid. For the entire complex the so-called blind window type in Empire style (fixed fanlight and two inward-turning window sashes) has been applied. The RESIDENTIAL WING, built on a rectangular foundation, consists of two storeys of brick with mortar bands beneath a slate-covered gabled roof with a top gable termination of the so-called Gelderland type on the south side. This facade bears the date anchor 1699. The facades are built from fieldstone brick provided with a regular window arrangement with rectangular window openings, which are framed with natural stone. Centrally on the facade on the courtyard side (19th century) is a double entrance door with fanlight in a sandstone frame. To the left of it is a round-built staircase tower from 1838 which has three external divisions; marked by drip mouldings and crowned by a slate-covered helmet roof with pinnacle; to the right of it a rectangular part with quarter-round connection from c.1870. The adjoining GATEHOUSE, built on a square foundation with drawbridge front on the east side, has traditionally formed the entrance to the castle complex. The gate has a round-arched passage above which on the front (east), a late Gothic niche for a saint figure and two windows below the roofline; also on the courtyard side are two windows and a small window. Internally a beam ceiling, niches in the side walls and traces of a passage probably from the gatekeeper's lodge which was built on the south side (see traces on east facade). Adjacent to this, grouped around the courtyard, THREE OUTBUILDINGS partly dating from c.1700. The building on the east side consists of two storeys beneath a roof covered with Old Dutch tiles. On the ground floor are bricked-up arched passages and an arrangement with doors and windows, on the upper floor regularly-spaced multi-pane windows. The north wing (fruit shed) dates from 1825 (rebuilt after fire in 1955) and consists of one storey and has two arched double carriage doors, one of which is equipped with glass. In this wing an iron roof truss structure has recently been installed for which the building has been reinforced with buttresses on the rear; this element is of subordinate importance for protection. The building on the west side (coach houses) consists of one-and-a-half storeys beneath a roof covered with red Old Dutch tiles. All windows are set in a rectangular sandstone frame. The facade on the courtyard side features an arrangement of successively from left to right a door, four windows of which two with shutters, an arched niche (original carriage entrance), a door flanked by windows, two arched double carriage doors and two windows. On the west side the wing is terminated by a GATE built on a rectangular foundation with drawbridge front on the east side where a moat once ran (now filled in). This was originally the main entrance gate of the 15th-century outer bailey. The gate consists of one storey with a round-arched passage, which around 1800 was heightened with a storey beneath a slate-covered pointed roof, of which the upper part is now covered with an octagonal tent roof. By the heightening the passage was lowered with a round arch. Internally a beam ceiling, niches (keyed niche) in the side walls and an attic with star-shaped beam ceiling, of which the roof timbers are numbered with chiselled Roman numerals. Adjacent to the gatehouse stands a brick barn with a blind facade on the south side articulated by window niches on the upper storey. In the INTERIOR of the residential wing is among other things important: the main arrangement consisting of a transverse corridor along which rooms are situated; the oak wooden floors; a stuccoed chimney niche from the first quarter of the 19th century (made by Italian stuccodores); in the large room 'law court' an 18th-century oak door frame in Louis XV style with coat of arms on one side and a monogram (CT) on the other side, above the door a wall painting of the building complex.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Huis Millen) of general importance: - on account of its age;

- on account of the building history combined with cultural-historical value;

- on account of the two 15th-century gatehouses and the main building which has been built from the 16th century around a polygonal courtyard;

- on account of the existing interior components;

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