Historische aanleg, Achtmaalseweg bij 158 A

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Description

PARK LAYOUT, consisting of a. avenues b. park c. vegetable garden and orchard d. meadow and arable land and woodland ad a.: there are four straight avenues, c. 1800: the Langedreef, the Spiegeldreef, the cross avenue and the connecting avenue. The Langedreef, the official approach drive, runs from the gate (see under 12) at the Achtmaalseweg in a straight line in a northwest direction towards the house, where it ends on the round path in front of the house; the avenue has old brick paving. The Spiegeldreef runs—to the northeast—parallel to the Langedreef and is the sight line from the centre of the house; it does not stand quite perpendicular to the façade; the tapering form means that this avenue manipulates perspective, a rare or even unique occurrence in our country; from the beginning, over two-thirds of the avenue's length have open fields on left and right; the last section of the avenue and its extension, a short "grand-canal", the Spiegelvijver (hence probably the name Spiegeldreef), lie in a coppice plot; the avenue is unmade. The cross avenue, also an approach drive to the house, more or less perpendicular to the two aforementioned avenues, begins at the access gate (see under 12) at the Roosendaalsebaan and runs a short distance south of the house in a southwest direction between vegetable garden and orchard towards the mound (see under 9), where it ends; the avenue has rubble surfacing in part, the rest is unmade. The connecting avenue runs parallel—to the southeast—to the cross avenue and connects the Spiegeldreef with the Roosendaalsebaan; the avenue is unmade. All four avenues are planted with single rows of oaks. ad b.: around the house, bounded by the Roosendaalsebaan, the cross avenue, the vegetable garden and a meadow lies a small park in landscape style, laid out from 1794, with fine old oak timber, two small ponds and a mound with linden trees planted in a circle; remnants of winding paths; in the small park stand the structures (see under 7, 8, 10 and 11) and the garden ornaments (see under 13); between house and cross avenue lies the forecourt with round lawn and path around it. Further to the south of the house, beside the Langedreef, lies a small wood with winding path. ad c.: the vegetable garden, 19th century or older, lies to the southwest of the house along the cross avenue, on its north side; the garden is surrounded by a young beech hedge and on its north and west sides by woodland; between house and vegetable garden a lawn with old solitary oaks. The orchard, probably as old as the vegetable garden, surrounded by a low beech hedge, lies opposite the vegetable garden on the other side of the cross avenue in the fork of this avenue and the Langedreef; there still stand some old fruit trees and the remnants of a fruit wall built from concrete elements; access via a gate (see under 12). ad d.: in the far northwest corner of the complex lies beside the small park a more or less square meadow, which can be seen as a park pasture, partly because there is a view onto it from the house. Opposite the house, just to the south of the cross avenue and to the left and right of the Spiegeldreef, lie two elongated open fields, which are sometimes used as meadow and sometimes as arable land. Directly to the west of the orchard lies an elongated small arable field. Finally, behind the gatekeeper's lodge (see under 4) there is a small tree nursery. The rest of the complex is occupied with copses of all kinds, mainly coppice. Remnants of winding paths and of a (cleared) burial mound. The structure consisting of open 'rooms' and a few sight lines and avenues interspersed with relatively enclosed coppice and woodland/avenues is very characteristic of Wallsteijn.

Valuation PARK LAYOUT of general importance - by reason of its age - by reason of its cultural-historical and landscape-visual values - by reason of special elements such as the perspective avenue with Spiegelvijver, the small-scale structure of winding paths and -ponds (which was laid out relatively early in our country) and the contrast between small-scale open rooms and the enclosure of coppice and woodlands