Voorstonden

English translation

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Description

Description component 1: (Voorsterweg 139; indicated on the accompanying map with no. 1) MAIN BUILDING (HUIS VOORSTONDEN)

Lightly rendered, five bays wide, block-shaped MAIN BUILDING (HUIS VOORSTONDEN) of which the south facade and half of the west facade stand in the water of the moat. It is assumed that the house originally dates from the mid-16th century and that the house was built on the foundations of an older, presumably 14th-century building, of which some preserved components are known as 'ruin'. The house has a full basement, piano nobile and one upper storey, the whole is covered by a composite roof truss structure. The roof is covered with grey old-Dutch tiles, heavy lead ridge and corner coping and no visible chimneys on the corners, but blind installed in the inner roofs from the 19th century. The middle roof truss is from 1820, the others from 1872. On the southern ridge there is a substantial yet ornamental, wrought iron bell cote with bronze bell, presumably 18th century. On the south and north facade stand wooden attic elements. Presumably the house originally had two storeys with roof and a basement. In the 17th and 18th centuries the then still L-shaped house was not substantially altered in its main form. But in detail; around 1750 new window frames were installed with 45 (9 x 5)-pane windows and corresponding shutters and window sills, and replaced the sandstone cross windows of which parts are still present. Around 1820, at the time of the Van Spaen family, the L-shaped building mass was converted into a (more compact) rectangle. In 1872 a renovation took place on the instructions of Mr. J.A.G. Baron de Vos van Steenwijk. During the 1820 renovation the east and west wings were kept low, now these wings were raised to the same height as the central section, creating the current block-shaped building. A veranda was also added. The preserved storm windows presumably date from this same period. The missing windows were remade in 1988 according to the historical model. The plasterwork applied in 1820 and 1872 is still recognizably present. In the premises, apart from below in the basement, the doors, window frames and windows from 1820 and 1872 are still present. In 1997 a small ice house was found again at the northwest corner of the house. The extension of the basement on the northeast side of the house dates from 1997.

INTERIOR: In the interior the building phases can be distinguished. The basement is on the south side predominantly 16th-century, on the north side from 1820 with precisely a 14th-century section; the piano nobile breathes the atmosphere of 1820, but on the south side and northwest side many components are much older; on the upper storey the central section (north-south) dates from 1820, the rest then consisted of attic rooms, which only received straight outer walls in 1872. Of importance are amongst others; in the basement the 16th or 17th-century door with oak arch, the early 19th-century W.C, the presumably 16th-century floor of Bentheimer sandstone slabs, the vaults, the double glass doors, the original stove room with amongst others vaulted smoke hood, bread oven, chimney beam, tilework, hearth slab with peacock-tail tiles (c. 1750) and the cistern (possibly 14th-century). The piano nobile breathes in concept and finish the period around 1820; sightlines from room to room and the great vistas into the garden (especially the north-south axis). In the hall a ceiling from 1820 with finely carved fan motif in the middle and a heavy moulding with frieze all around, walls with stucco, doors and surrounds; 1820, the floor; marble thresholds of the doors - possibly older than the marble floor tiles on shell limestone on wood. The so-called study is from the 16th-century house, the only room that is still partially intact, in the other rooms in 1820 the building walls were moved. Above the stucco ceiling there are dark green painted heavy beams. Shutters and wall panelling circa 1750, windows and window sills 1820, floor of broad, room-length and unpinned sections, 3.5 cm thick. Marble fireplace from 1820. In the so-called hall ceiling from 1820, an identical fireplace as in the study, wooden floors. Floor of the southern corner room oak parquet (1870?). In the intermediate room a stove recess from 1820. In both these rooms ceilings with circular decoration. In the hall an oak staircase from presumably 1820 in two flights with beautifully profiled handrail, which more suggests 1870 given the (beautifully coloured) cast-iron balusters and a richly carved scroll-shaped main baluster in Composite style (mainly Louis XIV). Wooden panel wall panelling. In the so-called veranda room (the summer salon) a very richly worked stucco ceiling and three sets of glazed doors to the veranda renewed circa 1872. On the northeast corner the Library in an arrangement from 1820 with polychromed ceiling and oak cabinets veneered with walnut from 1875. The layout of the upper storey follows in broad outline that of the piano nobile; on the north side exactly; on the south side the side aisles are divided into smaller rooms with light wall constructions. The attic staircase is a very robust, wide pine staircase, entirely in authentic 1820 condition. On the attic a large servants' chamber; a smaller one is situated on the north side, drying racks with the associated supports, chimneys are still original, with cleaning hatches and similar.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING (HUIS VOORSTONDEN) is of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because of its architectural design;

- because of the high degree of integrity of the exterior and interior;

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

- because of the characteristic location within the originally 17th-century park layout which from the 18th century acquired its present character in a landscape style.