Nijenrode

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former PLAYHOUSE, from 1912, with stylistic influences from the half-timbered style and cottage style, as part of the country estate Nijenrode.

The country estate originates from a 13th-century castle. Important extensions and restorations took place among others in the 17th century under Johan I Ortt, who also commissioned the laying out of a formal garden. From 1907 onwards the country estate was owned by Amsterdam coffee merchant Michiel Onnes. He had the castle restored under the direction of architect E.G. Wentinck to a 17th-century situation and added several outbuildings. Garden architects L.A. Springer and H. Copijn were responsible for the landscaped layout with mixed character transformed between 1912-1915. At present Nijenrode University for Business Administration is seated in the castle and with the purchase of land in the direction of the Amsterdam Rhine Canal the territory of the country estate has been enlarged again.

The play stable was converted into a dwelling house in the forties of the twentieth century.

In 1990 the roof and front facade were partially renewed after storm damage.

Description

The playhouse is located in the northwestern part of the park and stands at the edge of the landscaped pond. It stands with the roof direction perpendicular to the path and the pond. It is constructed of brick (Flemish bond) and wood in one storey with roof from a rectangular ground plan. The gabled roof is covered with red Dutch tiles. The wooden half-timbered construction, the gable sections of which are filled with windows, wooden fluted sections and brick mosaic, rests on a brick base of approximately ninety centimetres. The overhanging gable ends rest on sturdy, carved wooden brackets. In these gable ends are brick mosaic and in the middle a wide window with casement frame. The roof eaves with gutters on wooden blocks and the gable ends are finished with a simple moulding. The wooden windows contain fixed and casement windows with glazing bars.

The symmetrical front facade (south-west side) has in the middle a glazed door and on both sides a paired window with two lights. The asymmetrical left side facade (north-west side) contains (from left to right) a paired window with three lights, two wooden facade sections, a window and again two wooden facade sections.

The rear facade (north-east side) has been altered. There is a small single-storey extension of later date. The right side facade (south-east side) has (from left to right) a two-part window with two double lights, a facade section with above a window and below a wooden section, a wooden section, a window, a wooden section and a door.

Valuation

The outbuilding in the park of the historical country estate Nijenrode is of general importance because of its cultural and architectural-historical value as a well-preserved example in its principal form of a play stable from 1912 with stylistic influences from the half-timbered style and cottage style, in particular because of the former function as well as being a functional component of the historical country estate Nijenrode. The play stable has group value because of its conspicuous location at the pond in the northwestern part of the park and the spatial-functional relationship with the other components of the complex.