Kasteel, buitenplaats, Chaamseweg 34

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1, (Chaamseweg 34 at Ulvenhout): MAIN BUILDING (Huis Hondsdonk)

Brick-built and whitewashed main building (with black plinth) on a rectangular and rectangular extended ground plan of two storeys partly under two hipped roofs covered with old Dutch tiles and at the rear under a flat roof. The house, which in its present appearance largely dates from around 1796, still shows building traces of the farmhouse from the first half of the 17th century, which was presumably built shortly after the destruction of the original farmhouse during the siege of Breda in 1624-1625. The new house built around 1796 by the then owner Lucas W.P. baron van der Borch (1738-1820) was erected against the north side of the old farmhouse and consists of a broad main building constructed in classicist style with centrally the three-sided extension of the original entrance with on either side two window bays. On the right side of this regularly laid out front house, in which the - representational - living and sleeping rooms are situated, a rectangular extension of the original farmhouse is visible towards the rear, which at the time of building around 1796 was drawn up to the roof of the front house and is likewise covered with a hipped roof. The vestibule realised in the length of the new house (with original coloured leaded glass windows to the hall), hall and the spacious staircase situated in the extension thereof with ornamental Louis XVI round-about staircase was erected against the northern outer wall of the old farmhouse. The kitchen situated to the south of the hall (with stove and hearth) is in fact the living room of the 17th century farmhouse. The wood-grain painting in oak of the ground floor doors dates from the 19th century. In the 1850s, when Henrica Paulina van der Borch born baroness van der Heim (1804-1884), widow of Mr. Willem Francois Emile baron van der Borch (1802-1849), had management of Hondsdonk, some renovations to the house were carried out. The windows on the first floor on the front and sides of the front house were provided with the current decorative wrought-iron French balconies and above the centrally located entrance extended with a covered portico at this time a balcony in the same style was erected. The aforementioned extension on the right side (originally the right side of the old farmhouse) was pulled forward several metres on the first floor. This newly created space was supported by the still-present wrought-iron pillars. The cornice, which closes off the front and side facades, was provided with a balustrade (currently stored) and centrally on the ridge of the roof the current small bell tower originating from the adjacent country estate Lugtenburg was placed. On the ground floor centrally in the triangular extension a double four-pane terrace door with single-pane fanlight as well as in the two window bays on either side a four-pane window. On the first floor in the extension centrally a double single-pane balcony door with single-pane fanlight and in the side facades of the extension an identical window as fenêtre à terre. The right facade of the front house shows on the ground floor a double six-pane terrace door and on the first floor and on the front of the raised extension a four-pane window as fenêtre à terre. The aforementioned windows and door partitions are provided with venetian blinds. On the right side of the right facade the main entrance with on the first floor a four-pane window as fenêtre à terre closes off the front house. To the right of this entrance a six-pane sash window with shutters and on the first floor two four-pane windows (on the first floor as fenêtres à terre) with winter shutters. The rear facade shows an irregular facade layout with partly empire and partly 18th century multi-pane windows, partially provided with venetian blinds and winter shutters. On the rear side of the house a courtyard enclosed by masonry, of which the rear wall serves as the rear wall of a greenhouse placed in 1964. The latter greenhouse is of subordinate significance for preservation given its age.

VALUATION

The MAIN BUILDING of the historical country estate is of general cultural historical importance:

- as a well-preserved example of a classicist main building from around 1800 in historical rural style as the centre of a historical park layout;

- because of the well-preserved interior;

- because of the way in which a part of the predecessor of this house, an early 17th century farmhouse, is incorporated in the house;

- because of the great visual-defining and ensemble values;

- because of integrity and age.