Kasteel, buitenplaats, Hoofdstraat 89

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Description

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MAIN BUILDING (Sparrendaal).

Exterior The house Sparrendaal was built in 1754 on a site where there had been building since at least 1644. The main building is a block-shaped, fully cellared house of red brick, with two storeys and an attic under a mansard roof covered with Old Dutch tiles (originally a surrounding hipped roof with a central gutter). The roof is crowned by a bell turret (originally on the ridge of the rear outbuilding roof) and is provided with four chimneys, which are located at the ends of the ridges of the original hipped roof. The symmetrical front and rear facades are seven bays wide, at the level of the piano nobile and upper storey provided with multi-pane sash windows, at the level of the basement provided with round-headed windows. The entrance is located in the slightly projecting middle bay and is richly worked. A hardstone entrance stair of six steps leads to a double entrance door with fan-shaped, ornamental fanlight, framed by sandstone pilasters and a pronounced cornice on skillfully carved consoles. On the upper storey a small balcony with a partly wrought-iron, partly sandstone, ornamental balustrade in Marot style, accessible via a multi-pane sash window with ornamental, sandstone framing of pilaster strips, carved claw brackets and a curved lintel with simple rocaille ornament in the middle. The building is provided with blocked pilasters at all corners and is crowned by a main cornice. This main cornice is provided with dentil moulding on the front facade and raised with a balustrade. Originally the entrance was crowned at the height of the balustrade by a half-trefoil-shaped, ornamental crowning piece. This has disappeared over the years. The left and right side facades are provided with three and five window bays respectively, partly with multi-pane sash windows, partly blind. On the roof a dormer with scroll-shaped cheeks and a sash window. The middle bay in the right side facade is provided with a basement entrance, above which a hardstone memorial stone commemorates the foundation stone laying in 1754. The rear facade has a central outbuilding three bays wide and one bay deep with a central entrance in the middle bay. Via a hardstone landing of six steps a double door with fan-shaped fanlight set in a hardstone frame with diagonally carved block motif, leads to the garden room. Above this entrance a sash window in an ornamental hardstone frame with scroll forms on either side and crowned by an arched moulding with simple rocaille motif in the middle. This outbuilding on the garden side is provided with a hipped roof with the original ridge height.

Interior Much of the original 18th-century interior was replaced during the major restoration (1957-1964) by J. B. van Asbeck, which took place following purchase by the municipality, with identical new elements. Doors, door frames, floor joists, large parts of the panelling and the simple stucco ceilings were entirely renewed. The impression of a dignified 18th-century interior has nonetheless been preserved. The original floor plan and layout have been maintained except for minor changes. In five rooms on the piano nobile the walls are covered with authentic, 18th-century, painted wallpapers from the construction period or shortly thereafter, mainly with landscape scenes. In some rooms there are also overmantel paintings: a classical allegory in grisaille on canvas in the right front room and 18th-century Chinese papers in the garden room. Ornamental marble chimney-pieces from the construction period are present on the piano nobile in the large hall on the garden side and both rooms to the right of the vestibule (east side). In some rooms on the piano nobile overmantel and chimney mirrors in carved frame and provided with gold leaf, partly Louis XV/Louis XVI style. Stucco ceilings, partly renewed, partly from the construction period, are present in the passage, the vestibule, the right front and rear room and the garden room. The three overmantel paintings in the vestibule and passage were also executed in stucco, putti represent spring and summer, autumn and winter and war and peace. Vestibule and passage have a white marble floor, laid in tiles of approximately 50 by 50 cm. In the stairwell on the west side of the house a staircase with carved balusters and handrail from the construction period. On the upper storey in the large front hall an, partly supplemented, imitation tapestry wallpaper hanging from the middle of the 18th century, applied by Van Asbeck during the restoration in 1957-1964.

Valuation MAIN BUILDING (Sparrendaal) is of general importance: - On account of the architectural design; - On account of the nearly original floor plan and layout; - On account of the well-preserved 18th-century interior elements, including painted wallpapers; - As a representative example of an 18th-century country house in Louis XV style; - On account of the characteristic location within the early 18th-century formal park layout; - On account of the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the estate; - As a representative example of restoration practice from the 1950s and 1960s.