Kasteel, buitenplaats, Oud Over 8

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1 (Old Over 8): MAIN BUILDING (Bijdorp).

House Bijdorp dates from around 1700. It is a block-shaped, cellared house of red brick, consisting of two storeys and an attic under a hipped roof covered with suppressed Dutch tiles (originally a surrounding hipped roof with a central valley gutter). On the roof ridge ends at the front two weather vanes, on the left roof slope a chimney. All corners are provided with blocked pilasters, the facades are finished with a main cornice with profiled gutter moulding. All windows have the same small glazing bars. The symmetrical front facade is three bays wide; on the ground floor/bel-étage and first floor left and right sash windows with shutters; centrally a slightly projecting entrance section, decorated in Louis XIV style. The panelled entrance door with fanlight is contained within a simple frame of panelled pilasters, topped by a profiled moulding. The door is accessible via a hardstone doorstep with three steps. In the ornamental fanlight a pattern of two coupled lenses with a sun-shaped heart. On the first floor a sash window with ornamental framing of pilasters, carved claw-pieces and a profiled moulding with carved ornamental top-piece (Louis XIV). On the roof centrally a roof dormer with ornamental cheeks and a basket-arch pediment in which a multi-paned window is contained. The side facades are five window bays wide. In the left side facade on the ground floor/bel-étage on either side of the central bay two sash windows with shutters; below these windows at basement level low windows; on the first floor an eccentrically placed narrow sash window with on the right side a shutter; on the roof a simple roof dormer with multi-paned window. Between the two left bays a chimney. The central bay in the right side facade is at bel-étage level partly extended for a pair of toilets; directly to the right of the extension a sash window, at basement level a multi-paned window; directly above the extension a multi-paned window; on the roof a simple roof dormer with multi-paned window. In front of the two left bays an elevated terrace was constructed in the 1930s, one of the two multi-paned sash windows was replaced for the purposes of this terrace by a multi-paned French door with multi-paned fanlight; both door and window are provided with shutters. In the rightmost bay a sash window with shutters, below it a multi-paned basement window. On the aforementioned window directly above the extension apart, the facade at first floor level is blank. On the roof a roof dormer as on the left side. The rear facade is three bays wide and in the left and right bay provided with sash windows with shutters (bel-étage and first floor), multi-paned basement windows as on the sides (basement) and two roof dormers as on both sides. In the central bay an eccentrically placed entrance section consisting of a multi-paned door with richly worked fanlight in Empire style, accessible via a mortared simple doorstep with hardstone steps and wrought-iron balustrade. The landing is at the front provided with an arched recess with a staircase leading down, which leads to the service entrance at basement level. On either side of the staircase wrought-iron volute-shaped side pieces.

The original floor plan and layout have been preserved almost completely intact. The finish dates partly from the time of construction, some interiors come from elsewhere and were brought together and fitted into House Bijdorp in the 1930s by the then owner. These 'period rooms' vary in age from 17th to 19th century. Vestibule and corridor have a white marble floor, laid in tiles of approximately 50 by 50 cm. The stairwell on the south-east side of the house has rich ornamental decoration in Marot style consisting in particular of a staircase with carved balusters, small fountain with richly carved back panel, wardrobe wall and console table. This stairwell ensemble is, like the panelled door frames in the corridor, painted in two shades of blue and partly gilded. At the front a room provided with rich partly gilded Louis XIV panelling in various shades of green, including two built-in china cabinets and a painted ceiling painting. At the rear a room with 17th century oak panelling in which two panels with allegorical representations in relief are incorporated as well as a sculptured sandstone fireplace section. On the first floor various rooms in Empire style. In the basement a large kitchen from the period of construction, with sink, (ornamental) pump, stove/cooking place, cabinets etc. On the attic a few box-beds. Floors, doors, interior shutters and hinges and locking mechanisms largely from the period of construction.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Bijdorp) is of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because of its architectural design;

- because of the almost original floor plan and layout;

- because of the presence of 17th, 18th and 19th century interior elements;

- as a representative example of a modest 18th century Vecht country house in Louis XIV style;

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

- as a distinctive and characteristic house at the Vecht/the Old Over.