Huis Mensinge of Huis te Roden

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Description

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Description

MAIN BUILDING (Huis Mensinge or Huis te Roden). The brick house, surrounded by moats on three sides, dates in origin from the fifteenth century, was rebuilt in the sixteenth century and converted to its present form in 1728. From the fifteenth century remain the clay-mortared interior walls at the location of the present salon, great room and library; the sixteenth-century part comprises the north side with kitchen and cellar (cellaring is unique for Drentish havezaten); building traces point to this old part and the adjoining part from 1728, internally between these parts a service stair. The building erected on a U-shaped ground plan consists of an elongated (shallow) main section of two storeys and two lower single-storey side wings of unequal length under hipped roofs covered with subdued Dutch Old tiles; brick chimneys. In the facades renewed windows (H-windows with two-pane fanlights, some of which with blinds). Restoration 1986. The symmetrically arranged front facade of five window bays has the entrance door centrally placed with fanlight set in a simple frame. The regularly arranged rear facade has ten window bays with H-windows on the principal floor and casement windows on the storey; three barred cellar lights. In this facade building traces and brickwork of different format. Wrought-iron wall anchors (shear anchors). In the side wings entrance doors, H-windows with two-pane fanlights (some with blinds), blind windows and small windows; in the west facade of the right wing a sundial. In the INTERIOR the following are among the significant features:

- the well-preserved room layout with long corridor (parallel to the front facade) behind which the rooms are situated;

- the originally sixteenth-century kitchen and cellar; kitchen tiled with 'witjes', large chimney breast, floor of Bremer sandstone (also in the corridor);

- eighteenth-century chimney breast with gilded rococo carving in the dining room;

- the decorated partition wall between library and great room with passage embellished with rococo carving;

- the wood imitations in the rooms (late nineteenth-century).

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Huis Mensinge or Huis te Roden) of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because the main building is a representative example of a Drentish havezate;

- because of the well-preserved original ground plan and the presence of a number of valuable interior components;

- because of the characteristic setting within the historical garden and park layout;

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