Landhuis, Vierakkersestraatweg 34

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1 (Vierakkersestraatweg 34, Vierakker): MAIN BUILDING COUNTRY HOUSE 'T SUIDERAS.

Electical Dutch Renaissance style country house in red brick, designed by Gerardus Antonius Ebbers (1858-1922), built 1890-1891, on a rectangular ground plan with basement, two storeys high, beneath a slate-covered flattened hipped roof. The roof is crowned by an elaborately worked cast-iron crête running on all four sides. The building, whose entrance is located on the western rear (park) side, was built to the design of architect Gerardus Antonius Ebbers, commissioned by the then owner Joanna Maria Van der Heijden van Doornenburg, baroness Van Voorst tot Voorst, after storm damage revealed that the original, more westerly situated old house 't Suideras could not be saved due to dilapidation. The building was executed with very rich ornamentation both externally and internally. On the exterior, abundant use was made of natural stone for banding, string courses and for ornaments, consoles and gable tops and to decorate the arch voussoirs above the windows. Internally the house was provided with wainscoting, beam ceilings, wallpaper, chimney and door arrangements in the same style. The building is provided with three tower-shaped outbuildings; one central at the front as a crowning of the monumental entrance arrangement, a stair tower on the short north side marking the service entrance located there, and one placed obliquely on the southeast corner. The last-mentioned tower-shaped outbuilding offers a view through an open part of the park towards the church, parsonage and school building built in 1870 at the commission of the owner of 't Suideras, Alexander baron Van der Heijden van Doornenburg. The three towers are respectively crowned by a slate-covered pear-shaped spire with above it a lantern with pointed spire, an 8-sided pointed spire with slightly inswept shields and by a Welsh helm. Adjoining the tower on the southeast corner an ornamental six-sided wooden pavilion-shaped covered terrace, on a six-sided stone substructure with arcade fields in the wall surfaces. On the piano nobile and the upper storey the windows are surrounded by wooden blinds. The rear side facing the street of the house displays a broad central risalit, centrally three-sided on basement and piano nobile level, crowned by a gable top with semicircular window with obelisks, with on either side a roof dormer with four-pane window, all executed in exuberant ornamental Dutch Renaissance style with pediment crowning and volutes as consoles. On either side of this three-sided extension on the rear three window bays with double casement windows at basement level, window with fanlight at piano nobile level and on the upper storey T-windows. The arcade fields of the windows on the upper storey are clad with terracotta tiles, as are the niches in the frieze of the centrally located gable top. The front side turned away from the street displays centrally the entrance arrangement extended as a risalit and crowned by a tower, which was originally preceded by a flight of steps. The latter was demolished in 1933 to make way for a ramp, behind which the basement windows on this side have since been hidden. Despite this intervention, this central risalit with entrance arrangement remains the most exuberantly designed part of the main building. Above the richly worked double entrance door in Renaissance style an elevated pediment supported by two columns and string course in which the coats of arms of Van der Heijden van Doornenburg and Van Voorst tot Voorst executed in high relief in natural stone by the studio F.W. van Mengelberg (Utrecht), each crowned by the corresponding helm, and respectively presented by the lion and the griffin as supporters. On the upper storey a double window with fanlight separated by a stone mullion. On either side of the entrance arrangement four window bays, of which the two outermost bays are crowned by lisene-marked gable tops in Dutch Renaissance style (with pediment, obelisks, balls and volutes). In these gable tops two windows placed against each other with semicircular fanlight. On the piano nobile and the upper storey single-pane windows with fanlights. The arcade fields of the windows on the upper storey are clad as on the front façade with terracotta tiles. Right side wall: in the three-sided extended corner tower on the southeast side in each side at ground level and on the upper storey a single-pane window with fanlight, and at roof height a narrow window with semicircular fanlight. To the left of this at ground level and on the upper storey a single-pane window, on the upper storey provided with a fanlight. At basement level two windows as on the front. The left side wall displays an irregular layout with next to the stair tower at basement level a service entrance. On the piano nobile and on the upper storey single-pane windows. Internally: Interior largely well preserved, executed in rich ornamental Dutch Renaissance style with partially original wallpapers and beam ceilings with coffered panels with paintings, framed door arrangements, wainscoting, marble chimney mantels and stucco ceilings. The doors giving access to the principal rooms are crowned with aedicula-shaped overdoors with obelisks. A design by G.A. Ebbers from 1891 for the interior finish of the lower hall, stairs and upper hall has been preserved, which was partly executed thus. On the piano nobile stucco ceilings with broad dado, mutually differing in layout and decoration, varying from restrained corner ornaments to classical mouldings and plastic rosettes. Most of the salons on this floor are provided with a marble chimney mantel. The chimney mantel in the salon located to the left of the hall comes from the acquired manor house De Ploen near the village of Duiven in the Liemers. In the dining room, which is provided with the richest interior decoration, a stained-glass window depicting the coats of arms of Van der Heijden van Doornenburg-Van Voorst tot Voorst, with below it the saying: "He has built well who trusts in God". These coats of arms recur on the consoles under the tie beams in the centre of the room. The rich dining room wainscoting in Dutch Renaissance style was made by the carpentry firm De Klark from Arnhem.

VALUATION

The MAIN BUILDING COUNTRY HOUSE 'T SUIDERAS is of general cultural-historical importance:

- as both internally and externally intact and authentic example of a late 19th-century grand country house in eclectic Dutch Renaissance style;

- owing to the ornamental and characterizing value in the historical park layout of 't Suideras.