Kasteel, buitenplaats, Swarte Singel 2

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Description

Description component 1: MAIN BUILDING (Martenastate).

The main building is located on a moated site and erected in 1899-1900 after a design by the Leeuwarden architect W.C. de Groot to replace the predecessor demolished in 1899. During construction, decorative elements from the old state were applied. The house is located on a moated site accessible via a (renewed) iron bridge. Richly decorated building (ground floor with roof space storey) on a more or less L-shaped ground plan, constructed from brown brickwork and covered by gabled roofs with slate (ridge laying) and suppressed Frisian barrel tiles. Front and side facades in fair-faced brickwork with (artificial stone) decorations and historical building fragments; rear facade (largely hidden from view by non-protected annexes) plastered and provided with imitation joints. On the front side (in the corner of the L) a tower with pear-shaped spire. In the facades (ground floor and roof space storey) recessed window and door openings of different sizes and detailing; richly worked doors, half shutters, multi-pane fanlights, arch drums with colourful decorative brickwork; stepped gables (terminating in chimneys) with artificial stone courses and ornamental metalwork; furthermore historical building fragments, including various stone-bearing lions (from the old state) and a commemorative stone from 1687 with the alliance coat of arms Van Burmania-Van Aylva under the grietman's crown. In a free-standing small wall by the main entrance two commemorative stones with inscriptions: ANNO 1687. Simple INTERIOR, altered by dual occupancy, but still recognizable in its main lines. Among the valuable interior components are, among others, the epitaph for Epo Sjuck van Burmania (died 1775) by the main entrance, a 19th-century wooden chimney piece, wooden wainscoting and a tiled kitchen chimney piece.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Martenastate) is of general importance:

- because of its age;

- as a good example of a historicizing Frisian hall stins with corner tower;

- as a good example of historicizing country house architecture;

- because of the high-quality aesthetic quality of the design and as such of great importance for the oeuvre of architect W.G. de Groot;

- because of the exceptional ornamentation, in which historical building fragments have been applied;

- because of the high degree of typological rarity at provincial level and the connection with a special historical development, namely that of the Frisian (hall) stins;

- as the main component of a spatial complex (consisting of historic country estate, burial mound and church) that is of great cultural-historical importance;

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