Singraven

English translation

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Description

Description

At the end of the Kasteellaan, on a peninsula of the Dinkel, stands the house Singraven with its front façade facing north. The house, originally dating from the 15th century (1415), was rebuilt between 1652 and 1653 as a block-shaped building, to which a square staircase tower with main entrance was added on the west side in 1661. Between 1830-1834 the house was extended to the front with a nave and provided with a front façade seven bays wide, which was enlarged in 1868 on the northeast side by two bays (presumably designed by architect L.H. Eberson). Against the southwest side, a basement extension for service rooms was realised in 1908-1909. The house was restored between 1921 and 1923, whereby the roof that had been lowered in the 19th century regained its original height. Finally, in 1923 architect A. de Maaker redesigned and refaced the front façade in accordance with the classical architecture of the staircase tower. The south and east façades are plastered. Against the south side of the basement extension, De Maaker added a kitchen and boiler room in 1957.

The main building, erected on a rectangular ground plan, consists of two storeys beneath a hipped roof covered with Old Dutch tiles, decorated on the front with natural stone corner chimneys adorned with festoons and crowned by weathervanes. The front façade, seven bays wide and clad in Bentheimer sandstone, and the west side façade are articulated by pilasters of the colossal order. The front façade with a rusticated central projection of three bays, crowned by a sandstone pediment with an oval window and festoons, has on the ground floor three double doors with glazing bars and round-arched fanlights, above which decoration of festoons and on the upper floor three multi-pane sash windows. On either side of the projection two window axes with multi-pane windows. In the side façade two window axes likewise with multi-pane windows.

Against the west façade stands the staircase tower, erected on a square ground plan, beneath a tent roof covered with Old Dutch tiles crowned by an iron pinnacle. The front façade, clad in Bentheimer sandstone, is articulated by 4 colossal pilasters of the Ionic order which support a cornice. In the centre the entrance section with a panelled door set in a frame of Ionic pilasters which support a cornice, on which the inscription ANNO DOMINI and the date 1661 in Roman numerals, and a pediment. The broken pediment is crowned by a cartouche with a later-added coat of arms of Jan Adriaan Laan. The façade is provided with narrow windows with glazing bars.

The east façade is entirely blind with two corner pilasters, a frieze with metopes and triglyphs and a cornice. The rear façade has a staggered arrangement with fairly regular window arrangement of multi-pane sash windows, some with blinds. The service wing, erected on a rectangular ground plan on the southwest side, consists of three storeys beneath a hipped roof covered with Old Dutch tiles with dormer windows. On the west side of the service wing there are three window axes with multi-pane windows; on the left an entrance door with fanlight and on the right a window arrangement; beside the door a bell. On the north side a round-arched door (of later date) set in a natural stone frame in block motif.

In the INTERIOR of particular importance is the spatial arrangement that was created between 1830 and 1834 during the enlargement of the house. The entire interior decoration was restored and modernised between 1954 and 1958; the staircases, ceilings, timber panelling were largely renewed; the chimneys pieces come from various Amsterdam canal properties. In furnishing the cloakroom old components (wall panelling) were reused; in the library an original fireplace surround with a tile panel is still present; in the hall stand terracotta flower vases.

Evaluation

The MAIN BUILDING (Singraven) is of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because of its building history;

- because of its architectural design in 17th-century classical (staircase tower) and 19th-century neoclassical (front façade) style;

- because of its use of materials, namely sandstone;

- because of its prominent location within the historic garden and park layout;

- because of the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the country estate.