Oldengaerde

English translation

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Description

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MAIN BUILDING (Oldengaerde). The originally early 15th-century house was enlarged at the beginning of the seventeenth century with two shallow side wings, which stand at right angles to the main building and in 1717 provided with a new front facade of pilaster architecture in classical style. The brick building erected on a rectangular ground plan consists of two storeys (rear house one storey) under a hipped roof covered with glazed Frisian tiles with mortared chimneys on the ridge ends (during a renovation in the nineteenth century the roof was lowered, the chimneys were moved to the corners and the pediment decoration was replaced by a wooden tympanum). On both sides of the rectangular building block adjoin younger single-storey wings (possibly late 18th/early 19th century) under a catslide roof with on the front an elegant roof line, quarter hollow and round curved, with sandstone shoulders and corner blocks (XIX). On the left roof slope a small bell, identical to that on the service building. The right side facade has two multi-pane windows in the wing and a similar window on the upper floor; against the left side wing stands a rectangular orangery (late 18th/early 19th century) of handmade brick under a gabled roof; in the south facade four large multi-pane windows, on the upper floor a six-pane window with blinds. The symmetrical nine-bay wide front facade is articulated by mortared pilasters of the colossal order, provided with painted sandstone bases and Ionic capitals. In the three-bay wide central risalit, which is crowned by a triangular pediment, is located the double entrance door with fanlight set in a frame in Louis XV style. Above the entrance is a rectangular relief in which two angels depicted in relief (1717?) and a decorated cartouche (1717?) with the name 'OLDENGAERDE' painted within. On both sides of the entrance door stand two stone-carved coats of arms of Cornelis baron van Dongen and his wife Johanna Angnis baroness van Wijenhorst. On both sides of the main entrance stand a cannon (1663), a bollard, a bench and a decorated base. The facade is divided by eight- and six-pane windows, with above the windows on the ground floor a painted stone-carved festoon, and above the windows of the central risalit the date 'ANNO' '1717'. In the right wing is located an arched double carriage entrance (coach house), in the left wing an arched multi-pane window. The seven-bay wide rear facade has eight-pane windows with interior shutters and in the middle a simply framed ten-pane double door; in front of it a three-step sandstone steps; above it a roof dormer under a saddle rooflet with wind vanes. Two cellar windows. In the side wings a multi-pane window and in the facade of the orangery a double door of bead panels, provided with a semicircular fanlight with radial bars and at the top a diamond-shaped window. In the INTERIOR is notably important the hall with marble floor and quarter-turn staircase with wooden 'flat' balusters and marbled treads, door frame in Louis XV style, the large dresser, marble mantelpiece with stucco work and stucco ceiling with floral motifs; the front room with marble mantelpiece with stucco work and stucco ceiling with floral motifs; the kitchen with beam ceiling, tiled floor, two 19th-century glass cabinets and a simple fireplace with white tile facing; the storage cellar with tiled floor. In general the windows are hung with folding blinds and provided with a window seat; the doors of wide sections are partly wood-panelled.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Oldengaerde) of general importance: - for its age; - as one of the few well-preserved Drenthe manor houses; - for its originally 15th-century main building, which was renovated in classical style in 1717; - for its characteristic location within the historic garden and park layout; - for its functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the country estate.