Landhuis, Sterrenbos 3

English translation

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Description

Introduction

COUNTRY HOUSE, erected in the Empire style and dating from the first half of the 19th century. The property, together with a short-gable farmhouse, a cart shed, a bakehouse and a grotto as a garden folly, forms part of the wooded estate Sterrebos, and is situated in isolation on a sand road at the edge of 's-Hertogenbosch. Renovation of the business section and roof in c. 1982. In front of the house a large copper beech and remains of a beech avenue.

Description

Small, partly two-storey country house with attached transverse-section barn with anchor-beam framework. Front house with portico on Tuscan columns on which a balustrade of sawn balusters. Front house and rear house under one roof with roof dormers equipped with hipped roof with improved red Dutch tiles. The front facade is entirely plastered and decorated with a pattern of evenly-spaced horizontal stripes alternately finished smooth and rough. Above a black-painted plinth the facades of the front house are white. The three-bay front facade has on the ground floor on either side of the front door a six-light window with sash window, semicircle-closed fanlight with fan-shaped decorated soffits and alternating threshold with knobs. Double mirror-clasped shutters. Across the entire width of the front facade stands an attached wooden portico with at the corners wooden Tuscan columns on a stone-dressed profiled basement which support a profiled wooden cornice. The monumental front door with diamond-shaped panels and authentic bronze fittings is set in a draught-proof porch under the portico. Above a profiled upper transom a fanlight with eye-shaped curved wooden glazing bars. In the side walls of the draught-proof porch a round window with segment-shaped curved iron glazing bars. The door has a stone-dressed threshold with drip stones, the step is marked on either side by stone half-spheres. The floor of the portico is paved with hand-shaped street bricks. On the upper storey in the central bay French doors each with two lights in the upper part. The frame is outlined with a plaster profile. The facade is concluded by a profiled wooden cornice with blocks. The left side facade has at the far left an old window identical to that of the front facade and a new five-part window with double clasped shutters. Further a door with two-part fanlight and a two-part cellar window. The roof edge is interrupted by two roof dormers, saddle-roof-shaped fitted and equipped with weathervanes with reserved trefoil decoration and swept side walls. The roof dormers have double casement windows. Rod anchors. The business section was weatherproofed in c. 1982 with two posts on the outside. Access is provided by two doors, one with two-part fanlight, on the right a small rectangular window in white-painted frame. Originally there were probably the doors of the transverse section here. The roof edge above the business section is interrupted by a roof dormer, identical to the two above the residential section, with the difference that the location of the windows here is taken by a lower-set loading hatch with glass panel above. Against the rear of the house stands an extension under a shallower-sloping lean-to roof. The walls are of orange-coloured reused hand-shaped brick. In it six-part arched iron stable windows.

Internally the original layout is largely preserved. The spacious living kitchen with renewed stucco ceiling has in one corner a fireplace with profiled fireplace beam with dentil moulding. In the opposite wall a partition made of broad wooden sections with a bed-recess behind a special pointed-arch-shaped double profiled panel door with old butterfly hinges. Further including a panel door with swept upper section, glass lights and cross-glazing bars. The front of the house is occupied by two reception rooms with rich stucco ceilings consisting of a central medallion of foliage, round pearl-strings and foliage wreaths of different types of deciduous trees. Profiled cornice, fluted moulding with daisies around. Corner medallions. Fireplace with curved niche and semicircle-closed ending. Framed by fluted pilasters with moulded capitals, arch with five-pointed stars and bordered with pearl borders. Rich garland with bows and tassels. Wooden bed-recess wall with profiled panels.

Valuation

The COUNTRY HOUSE from the first half of the 19th century is of general importance. The house has cultural-historical value as a particular expression of a social-economic development, as an example of a small country house, characteristic through the combination of a representative front house with reception rooms and a business section in the rear house. The property has architectural-historical value because of the well-preserved main structure inside and outside and the traditional use of materials as well as because of components of the interior, in particular the rich stucco ceilings and bed-recesses from the time of construction. The property, together with an associated garden folly, a farmhouse, a cart shed and a bakehouse, forms part of the estate Sterrebos, by which it has ensemble value with great landscape significance.