Huis Diepenheim

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1

The house Diepenheim is built half against the old castle rampart. The MAIN BUILDING, erected on a rectangular ground plan, dates mainly from 1648. The building is constructed of red brick, has components clad with sandstone and is closed off by a hipped roof covered with slate and running all around. Chimneys at the corners. No architect is known. The middle section of the rear facade was heightened in 1925 according to a design by architects M. and H. Meyerink from Zwolle. In 1707 two low, single-storey side wings were added. Only the right section is still in situ. The section with the stair towers under a tent roof between the right side facade and the main building was erected in 1904. The seven-bay wide brick front facade with a basement or ground floor, piano nobile and attic storey is decorated with corner blocks, plinth, cordon moulding, architrave, cornice and sandstone lintels, alongside a centre section entirely executed in sandstone, three bays wide. This centre section shows at basement level with ashlar work at the height of the piano nobile a set of four Tuscan pilasters bearing a triangular pediment with a round opening. Above the window on the piano nobile in the middle bay (originally the entrance) a broken segmental arch pediment, in which coats of arms Bentinck and Van Bloemendaal. Below it in Roman numerals MDCXLVIII (1648) and below that the text: 'In the year 1707 altered'. Wrought-iron balcony from 1707. The windows are closed off with sandstone lintels. At the basement these are largely lost (in 1707?) when the openings were enlarged. In the roof plane two roof dormers. Against the front facade hangs a bell on the right side under a metal bell cote from 1790 with the inscription 'D. Bentinck tot Diepenheim landdrost tot Twenthe 1790 Me Fudit J.B. Voigt'. The (heightened in 1925) rear section rear facade has no basement due to the location of the house in and against the castle rampart. Doors and windows with a small glazing bar division (1925). Over three bays of the middle section there is on the storey a substantial balcony on consoles, coupled corner pilasters of sandstone and a triangular pediment with round opening and an adjacent balustrade to close it off. Right side wing of one storey under a hipped roof.

The layout of the interior is largely (again) that of 1648 and 1707. The layout of the basement is as follows: at the front on the left there is a living room with a fireplace placed in 1925 from the early 18th century with a moulded sandstone fireplace surround, above which a (fine but not matching) wainscoting with mirror. Compound beam structure parallel to the front facade. Where the room was extended is a partition marked by Doric columns. French doors to the formal garden and two doors to the vestibule. The vestibule with sandstone stair and matching balusters (17th century) is located in the middle of the house. The right front room or dining room has an early 18th-century fireplace placed diagonally in the corner (placed in 1904) with a carved overmantel of oak wood. Superstructure with festoons on a ring, decorated with tassels, acorns, birds and ears of corn. The overmantel rests on sandstone consoles. Papier-mâché wallpaper of imitation gilded leather from 1904. Behind the dining room runs a corridor with a wall-mounted cabinet and laid with marble tiles, which forms the connection with the right side wing. In it are housed the serving room, the kitchen and the former sitting room for the staff. Kitchen and serving room have a (continuous) barrel vault. The kitchen has a large fireplace against the right side wall. Next to it a passage to the equally vaulted former staff sitting room. The serving room is connected to the dining room via a hatch. The rear section of the basement lies in the castle rampart and is occupied by cellars. They are vaulted with rib-less cross vaults on brick pillars with moulded sandstone imposts. In the corner between the kitchen and the rear of the basement is the extension of 1904 containing a scullery and a room with a spiral staircase for the staff upstairs. Via the sandstone stair of one flight which after a landing halfway splits into two flights in neo-18th-century manner one reaches the piano nobile or main storey. There on the left front are the Hall, in the middle the stair hall and guest room with bathroom (formerly Sitting room or Boudoir) and right a sitting-bedroom (formerly Tapestry room). The rear section is occupied by a small library, the large library (formerly Garden room or Green room), a bedroom (formerly Red room) and a bathroom (formerly with the Red room one hall). The Hall was decorated in 1925 in early 18th-century style with a stucco ceiling with a lattice motif and laurel leaf friezes, wainscotings and doors with decorated panels, all in the manner of Daniel Marot. Against the rear wall an early 18th-century marble fireplace, provided with a carved overmantel with porcelain consoles against the corner pilasters. In the salon on the right front a fireplace with white marble Empire mantelpiece. Overmantel with carved vase and caesars' heads in tondi, decorated with putti and festoons on a ribbon. The library is provided with wooden wainscoting. Bookcases with corner pilasters provided with Composite capitals. The Garden room has a fireplace with richly ornamented rococo overmantel with grey marble fireplace surround. In the overmantel a mirror with above it a painting with a Vanitas mythological representation of a skull and an extinguished candle. Stucco ceiling with rocailles with flower vases in the corners. In the salon a fireplace with white marble mantelpiece with a painted overmantel wainscoting. Against the corner pilasters porcelain consoles. Hall, 1925: Here a late-18th-century fireplace was placed with marble mantelpiece and wooden overmantel wainscoting, interconnected by rose garlands. The extension of 1904 contains two stair towers with iron spiral stairs. On the storey at the rear lies the apartment created in 1925. Along it runs a corridor which opens in arches to the vestibule with the stairwell. At the front are the attics where small rooms have been fitted out for the staff.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING (house Diepenheim), belonging to the historic country estate Diepenheim is of particular cultural-historical and architectural importance

- due to its age

- due to the 17th-century architecture

- due to its integrity

- due to the place it occupies within 17th-century Dutch classicism

- due to the additions and alterations of 1904 and 1925 in the style of the house

- due to the virtually intact preservation of the interior layout

- due to a number of specifically named interior components

- due to its ensemble value as part of the country estate.