't Sonnehuijs

English translation

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Description

Complex component 1

Summer house (DWELLING) 't Sonnehuijs is constructed over one storey on a rectangular plan under a steep thatched gabled roof with ridge tiles and two rendered whitewashed chimneys. The facades are rendered in white above a high rendered plinth which is painted partly black and partly white. Two extensions against the rear facade in whitewashed brickwork under lean-to roofs: the kitchen extension under a thatched roof addition, the combined wood store and workshop under red Dutch tiles. In the facades right-angled windows with wooden frames and glazing bars above rendered drip mouldings, below roll mouldings. Small square windows with diagonal crossed glazing bars and upright rectangular four-pane windows with horizontal glazing bars. Also horizontal glazing bars in the glass doors. In winter steel shutters slide from the cavity walls to close the building. The shutters are decorated with red and white hourglass motifs. Around the house terraces at different levels within walls constructed in red brick with a whitewashed top edge. The terrace floors are laid with red tiles. On top of the walls planters of whitewashed tiles. Centrally in front of the front facade (southeast) is a terrace under a flat canopy, above which a truncated pent-roof light is built into the roof. The canopy with beam structure is supported on square wooden columns with capitals of decoratively carved triangles. The terrace under the canopy can be closed by wooden doors that slide out from the terrace walls. In front of this terrace a lower triangular terrace. Under the canopy a double glass door between two square windows. In the gable above the canopy four square windows. To the left of the central section a three-sided bay window with rectangular windows. To the right four square windows linked together above a wooden planter.

In the left side facade (southwest) is the entrance door under a canopy suspended by pulley cables. On either side of the double glass door two square windows. In the gable three square windows, at the very top three ventilation slots.

To the left against the rear facade (northwest) is the kitchen extension with square windows, a kitchen door and a mouse-tooth moulding in the side facade. To the right of this a doorway to the central hall, accessed via a rendered staircase with landing. To the left of that glass door a double rectangular window, to the right a square window. In the wood store a door flanked by two square windows.

The right side facade (northeast) is articulated both on the ground floor and in the gable by a square window on either side of the chimney channel.

Of the INTERIOR are preserved among others: the central hall flanked by two large rooms on the ground floor and the kitchen in the lower section at the rear. This contains among other things glass doors with glazing bar divisions; beam ceilings; wood and tiles on the floors; built-in wooden dresser cabinets with glass doors; partly rendered chimney breasts; wooden panels, wainscoting and window sills; and wooden built-in cabinets, a large chimney breast and a pump in the kitchen.

Valuation

Summer house 't Sonnehuijs is of general interest because of its cultural-historical value as an expression of the development of tourism around the Kager Plassen in the first decades of the twentieth century.

The summer house with its associated interior is of general interest because of its architectural-historical value due to the building style related to English country house style with farmhouse elements.

In urban design terms the summer house is of general interest because of its visually defining location on an island in the Kager Plassen and the spatial and functional relationship with the adjacent boathouse.

Both the exterior and interior are intact.