Kasteel, buitenplaats, Horstlaan 12

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The HUNTING LODGE belonging to the country estate Ter Horst was built between 1863 and 1876 in neo-gothic style with influences of the Willem II-gothic, designed by J.W.F Mouton (interior and exterior) commissioned by H.R.H. Prince Frederik of the Netherlands on a medieval building site of the former castle of the same name. The history of the castle dates back to around 1200 and is said to have been destroyed in 1393 and 1420. Christina van Ruytenborgh and Reinier Pauw had a Renaissance-style country house built in 1631, which was seven window units wide and had a tower at the rear. To the richly decorated Neo-Renaissance interior with, among other things, Delftware tiles depicting Princes of Orange and oak beam attic and wall panelling, 17th-century elements have also been added, such as the gilt leather wallpaper and woven wall hangings. Empire lanterns originate from the Palace on the Dam in Amsterdam.

Description

The building erected on a T-shaped ground plan with a medieval cellar stands on a profiled sandstone plinth and has one storey and a mezzanine. The front house and the rear house set at right angles to it are covered by gabled roofs (with shingles) covered with suppressed cross tiles, of which those of the front house terminate in stepped gables and the rear house in a spout gable. Against the south-west and part of the north-west façade of the rear house is a similar extension under a flat roof. The six-bay wide front façade of the front house has a stepped gable slightly off-centre and is decorated with artificial stone tracery in neo-gothic style, including pilasters, battlement with tracery in fish-bladder motif, string course and door and window surrounds. The stepped gable is crowned by a gilded weather vane with a lion. The eccentrically placed entrance door consists of a framed wooden round-arched door with iron fittings at a platform with simple balustrade. On either side of the door surround, with frontal and pinnacles, a coat of arms. In the remaining bays and in the stepped gable wooden opening cross windows with sandstone window sills and in the mezzanine wooden windows with cusped arches. The corners of the front house are crowned with artificial stone pinnacles (shaft only). The remaining façades are executed in sober style decorated only with string courses and ornamental wall anchors. The façades are regularly laid out with wooden profiled cross windows with sandstone window sills and shutters. Above the windows are round arches with artificial stone springer and keystone. The left side façade (south-west) has an extremely right blind window and in the rear part an entrance door with fanlight at an iron, richly worked staircase with balustrade. This façade is also provided with mezzanine windows with cusped arches. In the north-east façade a coat of arms stone and in the rear façade of the front house two low-placed glass-in-lead windows with setting frames. INTERIOR: Internally the house displays a rich finish in Willem II-gothic, likewise designed by J.F.W. Mouton, practically intact and of great ornamental and rarity value. The house has an irregular layout of rectangular rooms on two levels, namely among others a vestibule, hall, library, sitting room, dining room and bedroom. These rooms are provided with oak panel wainscotting, doors with fittings, beamed (dining room, with painted garlands, festoons and mascarons) and coffered ceilings (sitting room, with richly worked monograms). In the sitting room an Old-Dutch fireplace with Delftware tile panel surrounded by tiles with tiger-fur motif. In the dining room gilt leather wallpaper (currently in storage) and monumental Old-Dutch fireplace with Delftware tiles and tiles with tiger-fur motif. Vestibule is furnished all around with early 18th-century wall tapestries (so-called verdures) and floor tiles with ornamental quatrefoil motif. Walls of the spacious hall are continuously furnished with Delftware tile panels with, among others, portraits of 14 members of the House of Orange and with biblical scenes and with a glass-in-lead door with the coats of arms of the seven provinces. In the bedroom a four-poster bed, wall tapestries, fireplace and built-in dressing table in Old-Dutch style (the latter with inlay work). In the library likewise fireplace with two Delftware tile panels, glass-in-lead windows with coats of arms and built-in library cupboards.

Valuation

The HUNTING LODGE is of general importance because of its cultural and architectural-historical value as an example of a coach house from the third quarter of the 19th century in neo-gothic style with influences of the Willem II-gothic, designed by J.W.F. Mouton. The hunting lodge, which is very well preserved as to the main form, the use of materials (artificial stone) and the ornament work, is significant for the oeuvre of architect J.W.F Mouton;

The interior is of general importance because of the very richly decorated and well-preserved finish in Willem II-gothic, which also represents a high rarity value.

There is ensemble value due to the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the country estate.