Bijgebouwen kastelen enz., Rijksstraatweg 557

English translation

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Description

Introduction

SERVICE DWELLING, dated 1927, replaces an older example on approximately the same site and is in its main form related to the Eclectic architecture of various other service dwellings from this period on the Horsten. This dwelling distinguishes itself, like two virtually identical examples (Rijksstraatweg 591) and Horstlaan 2 (municipality Voorschoten), in that it is constructed of fair-faced brickwork, whereas the others are rendered. In the hall there is a foundation stone with the date 1927. Hub. Hoenselaar from Leidschendam acted as builder. Because this dwelling stands at the northwestern entrance of the Horstlaan at the corner with the Rijksstraatweg, which leads to the country estate Ter Horst (municipality Voorschoten), it is also referred to as the porter's lodge Horstlaan. In this way it forms the counterpart to the porter's lodges of Raaphorst and Eikenhorst. Nowadays (anno 1997) it no longer functions as such. The window at the left of the entrance recalls that an entrance ticket could be purchased here, which gave access to the park. N.B. the windows are fitted with secondary glazing.

Description

Detached single-storey, symmetrically arranged building mass with basement on a rectangular floor plan, covered by a gabled roof with a kick eave, laid with ridged Dutch tiles, zinc ridge crests and wooden wind braces and gutters. The ridge direction runs northwest/southeast. On the ridge stands a chimney constructed of grey brick. The facades, constructed of grey brick (English bond), have corner pilasters and a white-painted rendered plinth. Doors and windows are covered by roll mouldings and have brick drip edges. Ground floor and upper storey are separated from each other by a decoratively bonded ornamental moulding with two projecting roll mouldings. One window on the upper storey is covered by a diagonal arch. The six-paned windows have inward-opening fanlights on the ground floor and four-paned casement windows on the upper storey. The front facade facing Horstlaan (northeast) has a central projection under a pointed gable, where the entrance is located, accessed via a step. This is a panelled door with a two-paned fanlight. On the upper storey there is a four-paned window under a triangular fanlight. The flanking long-wall sections have one window each. To the right of the left window there is a small opening, originally intended as a ticket window. The rear facade (southwest) is a long-wall with one window on each side. Of the two symmetrically laid out end walls executed as pointed gables, the southwestern one has two windows on the ground floor and the northeastern one has a basement window on the left in the facade. Internally the original layout is largely preserved with, in line with the entrance, a staircase to the attic. On one side of the corridor is the living room, on the other side the kitchen with the cellared back room, furnished with wooden beam ceiling.

Valuation

The service dwelling on Horstlaan is of general interest because of its architectural and cultural-historical value:

- as an example of a service dwelling from the nineteen-twenties, which is related to the Eclectic architecture of various other service dwellings on the Horsten from that period;

- as a spatial and functional part of the historic country estate Eikenhorst, which forms part of the Horsten;

- by virtue of its character-defining situation along the Rijksstraatweg at the access road to Ter Horst;

- because the service dwelling is relatively intact in its main form, material use and detailing.