Landhuis, Paauwlaan 6

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Description

Introduction.

RESIDENCE (1) of the country house type, principal component of the complex, was built on commission of D.T. Ruys in 1914-1916 to designs by architect L.J. Zaaijer in Neo-Historicist style, inspired by Dutch Classicism and English Country House style. The inspiration from English country houses is evident inter alia in the grouping of rooms around a generously laid-out 'hall' with monumental fireplace and staircase.

On the terrace against the front facade there was formerly a continuous loggia resting on columns.

Description.

Detached, undercellared country house of two storeys and an attic storey, covered by a flattened, high hipped roof with sag and with extensions under half-hipped roofs of lower ridge heights. The roofs, covered with suppressed Dutch tiles, have chimneys with iron weathervanes at the ridge corners. On the left against the north-east facade is an undercellared, single-storey service wing placed under a hipped roof with a chimney, provided with an iron weathervane at the ridge. The front and side roof slopes have roof dormers on both sides with a curved roof, provided with a six-pane round-arched opening window. Roof dormers in the form of a serliana occur in the middle of the side and rear roof slopes and at the rear roof slope also on the sides. The attic is lit by small triangular roof dormers with small arched small windows. At the location of the south corner of the front facade (south-west) a five-sided projecting, two-storey oriel tower is placed. The building has a composite ground plan, with the various rooms grouped around a central 'hall', which is lit by a centrally placed skylight. The facades, built from dark red brick in Flemish bond (snap joint), are cornice-topped facades, finished with a frieze with guttae, in which the drip moulding resting on wooden gutter blocks is incorporated and overhangs. The straight-closed door and window openings are covered by lightly curved arches on the underside, on the ground floor largely with natural stone intermediate and sill stones, as part of a continuous decorative band above the plinth. Natural stone is further used at the entrance porch. The single and composite window and door sections have glazing bars and are partly executed as cross or cloister windows, partly as sash windows. Various windows still have green-painted shutters for the lower windows. On the ground floor on the garden side are double opening terrace doors and fixed windows with glazing bars with single and double fanlights above the natural stone lintel. The garden-facing front facade (south-west) has a central risalit crowned by a triangular pediment, in front of which a semicircular oriel with balcony is placed. The oriel is closed off by a natural stone moulding with above it a wooden balustrade decorated with carving. The balcony is accessible by means of two pairs of opening balcony doors. Centrally in the pediment is an oeil-du-boeuf placed in a natural stone cartouche. To the left of the risalit the facade is two window units wide and to the right one. The facade is closed on the right by a five-sided closed two-storey oriel-like projecting tower, covered by an octagonal spire, crowned under a copper-clad helm roof, beneath which is the bell.

Before the left side facade (north-west) a three window units wide, rectangular oriel with balcony is placed on the right, which has a similar facade finish with balustrade as the oriel on the front facade. This balcony is also accessible via two pairs of opening balcony doors. To the right of the oriel is a double window. To the right of that is a built-in step placed in front of a double door with glazing bars and fanlight. On the upper storey, to the right of the balcony doors, are two windows.

Centrally in the rear facade (north-east) a staircase flanked by sloping walls is placed, which on the left side adjoins the rectangular, single-storey extension. The staircase leads to a landing placed under a canopy, where a single-pane panel door with fanlight and four-part sidelight is located. The canopy rests on a column at the north corner. On the upper storey above is a loggia, the lintel of which rests on two columns. Behind this is a composite door section with glazing bars and leaded glass of the staircase. To the right of this centrally placed central section the facade is two window units wide, including two barred cellar windows. At both long facades of the extension a serliana-shaped roof dormer projects through the drip moulding. The north-west long facade has two barred cellar windows, a cross window and a composite window. At the gable end (north-east) two windows are placed symmetrically in the facade. The south-east long facade has a staircase flanked by sloping walls on the right, leading to a round-arched panel door under a round-arched canopy resting on elegantly carved consoles. To the right of that under the serliana is a ventilation opening of a cellar window with above it a cross window.

In the south-east cornice-topped facade of the main building a projecting entrance porch is placed centrally in the facade with above it a balcony, provided with a built-in balustrade with open-work. A three-step granite flight of steps consisting of circular segments leads to a panel door with round-arched fanlight, set in a rusticated natural stone frame. The round arch of the entrance porch with natural stone quoins and closing stones rests on columns. These are placed towards the two side walls with natural stone corner pilasters, of which the right one (north-east) has two windows. In the extension of these end walls, beside the round arch are crowned coats of arms. Against the entrance porch on the left is a plant conservatory placed above a built-in plinth under a lean-to roof with glass panes. To the right of the entrance porch are two windows and a door. In front of the entrance is a built-in staircase with sloping side walls and under the fanlight hangs a canopy. On the upper storey there are a total of five windows of different types.

The interior is also characterized by the Neo-Historicist style, inspired by Dutch Classicism in combination with English Country House style. The ground plan layout and detailing of the interior are largely well preserved and particularly richly executed on the ground floor. On the upper storey some alterations of minor importance have been made. At the entrance porch, flanked by cloakroom and toilet, white and black marble is used on the floor and as wainscoting. The mostly original panel doors are partly provided with leaded glass, some with side and fanlight. The central 'hall', executed in Old Dutch style, has oak parquet, (white-painted) oak ceiling with beams with key stones resembling lion heads and wainscoting, which continues to the sill of the panel doors. The hall is centrally lit by a dome with stained leaded glass. Opposite the entrance (north-west) a large fireplace with sandstone pilasters and a back wall with Delftware tiles from the building period. On the north-east side a winding staircase with landing, with opening doors leading onto the loggia. The salon located in the central axis of the front facade, executed in Neo-Louis XV style, has inter alia a decorative stuccoed ceiling, fireplace and brown marble floor. The sitting room with conservatory in Old Dutch style to the south of it has inter alia an oak parquet floor, (white-painted) low wainscoting, an oak fireplace with fluted Ionic columns. The dining room in Neo-Regence has inter alia oak parquet, decorative stuccoed ceiling, wooden wall cladding with wall covering and glazed pilasters, a marble fireplace with garlands.

The landing of first and second storey has an octagonal void, which like the staircase is executed with a balustrade with carved balusters. The first storey is sober and also broadly follows the original layout with low wainscoting, panel doors and various smaller fireplaces. On the attic are various staff rooms.

Valuation.

The country house dating from 1914-1916 is of general importance because of its cultural-historical value as a characteristic example of a monumental country house from the early 20th century and as a representative example of the development that country house architecture in the Netherlands underwent at that time.

The country house is of general importance because of its architectural-historical value as a characteristic example of a country house in Neo-Historicist style, inspired by Dutch Classicism and English Country House style.

The country house is characterized by a fairly high degree of integrity regarding the main form, the use of materials and the details, both internally and externally. In the interior this concerns both the ground plan layout and the detailing of the various style rooms, in particular on the ground floor.

The country house is of high urban planning importance as the principal component of the country estate and because of the stylistic, historically-functional spatial coherence with the various complex components and the formally laid-out garden arrangement directly around the house.