Dickninge

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING (Huis Dickninge). Late Empire house with entrance section featuring a columned portico spanning two storeys, built in 1813 on commission of Reint Hendrik baron de Vos van Steenwijk (1755-1836) on the grounds of the former abbey of Dickninge. Due to its slightly elevated position and the perspective effect of the layout, the house makes a very monumental impression. The front facade runs parallel to the front courtyard, the rear and side facades are to a greater or lesser extent submerged as a basement into the ground. Two-storey house on rectangular floor plan with triangular extension on the rear side, constructed of red brick on a stone plinth and covered by a surrounding hipped roof laid with blue Dutch tiles with four corner chimneys with boards in the roof tiles, chapels with flat roof and opening-outward nine-pane windows; richly moulded cornice with guttae and offsetting at the height of the triangular pediment. In the pediment sits a small window, originally a shutter used to hang out the flagpole. On the roof stands on two wooden posts a small bell tower with spire and scalloped roof edge. On the rear side against the right side facade a conservatory from circa 1860 with staircase. All facades feature regular fenestration with four-pane basement windows (except the front facade), six-pane windows on the ground floor and four-pane windows on the upper storey. All windows and doors are equipped with one-and-a-half-brick soldier courses. The front facade is symmetrically arranged with in the centre a columned portico spanning two storeys with a simple triangular pediment with in the tympanum a small (non-original) rectangular window, supported by two, white-painted stone columns with Ionic volute capitals on square stone bases. In the portico on the ground floor double entrance doors with cushion panels, glass panes and fanlight; on the upper storey a four-pane window flanked by two narrow two-pane windows; on either side of the portico a window area. Against the right side facade stands a pentagonal wooden flat-roofed conservatory from circa 1860 with cast-iron capitals, richly carved cast-iron spandril fillings above the windows; roof gutter on fantasy brackets; above the opening conservatory doors a modest pediment; the whole rests on a plastered brick base with false joints and light-arched light openings with iron grilles and is accessible from the garden via an eight-step stone staircase. The rear facade is furnished with a triangular extension flanked by a window area. In the left side facade is the entrance to the basement consisting of a double wooden panel door with fanlight, which is reached via a stone staircase. In the INTERIOR noteworthy among other things is the central square hall with stuccowork with floral motifs and hunting and vista scenes and a mirror set in a gilded stucco frame in Empire style. Cellar with old tiles.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Huis Dickninge) of general importance:

- due to its age;

- due to its architectural design;

- due to the high degree of integrity of the exterior;

- due to the virtually intact preserved interior floor plan and spatial arrangement of the interior rooms, whereby the building as such is a characteristic example of an early 19th-century main building of a country estate;

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

- due to its characteristic location within the early 19th-century small-scale park layout in landscape style.