De Gaard

English translation

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Description

Introduction

ARTIST'S DWELLING "De Gaard" with attached BOUNDARY WALL, built in 1919 in Gooi country house style designed by W. Hamdorff. The client was artist-painter A. Smeerdijk. The building is situated on the north side of the Kerklaan at some distance from the road. The front door is reached via a path between staggered beech hedges. High-standard fruit trees are placed in the open garden areas laid out to the left and right.

Description

The one-storey artist's dwelling is built on a rectangular ground plan with loggia on the south-east corner and wooden shed to the left at the rear. The roof ridge of the draped thatched roof, topped with ornamental ridge terminals, runs parallel to the road. The undulating roof line follows the level difference of the building, of which the western section is built higher than the eastern section. The gables are built in yellowish-grey brick on a black tarred plinth of eight layers. The wooden windows have glazing bars, some are furnished with shutters. The drip moulds are chamfered brick.

In the front gable (S) is located to the left of centre the wooden entrance door with brick step between two small four-pane windows. The wooden gutter above is supported on carved brackets. To the right above the entrance in the roof plane a semicircular roof dormer. On the left the gable is clad over half its height with red Dutch tiles, in which a projecting double four-pane casement window. Completely on the left is the prominent, tapering chimney with rounded opening on front and back and semicircular finish, covered with red tiles. To the right of the entrance, under raised roof and heavy wooden lintel, are two pairs of linked six-pane windows with shutters, each under four-pane fanlights. The loggia behind parapets is accessible via two brick steps from the east side. The floor is laid with red and black paving tiles. The brick column on the corner has the form of a wing piece. A glazed door with ten-pane glazing bars opens on the east side onto the loggia, as do two double doors on the south gable.

The left side gable (W) contains a double four-pane window and a series of three small windows under the edge of the roof plane. The right side gable (E) contains a series of three four-pane windows and the wooden extension.

In the rear gable (N) to the right of centre a door, consisting of upper door with four-pane lights and lower door, with to its left a small four-pane window under gutter on brackets. To the left a four-pane window. Directly to the right a low built-out basement section with small windows under a lean-to roof with red Dutch tiles. To the right in the higher built-up gable plane a large studio window with four-pane windows on either side of a large double window with casement sashes separated by a horizontal window strip.

Access to the grounds is formed by brick, semi-hexagonal continuing wall sections with gate posts in which a wooden gate with the letters: "DE GAARD".

Valuation

The artist's dwelling "De Gaard" with attached boundary wall is of general importance for its architectural and cultural-historical value as a largely well-preserved example of an artist's dwelling with attached boundary wall from the first quarter of the 20th century, built in Gooi country house style designed by W. Hamdorff.