Vecht en Lommer

English translation

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Description

Description component 1: MAIN BUILDING 'Vecht en Lommer'.

The 18th-century part of the house is built on an almost square floor plan. The building is closed off by two gabled roofs between spout gables. The spout gables have broad shoulder sections on either side with simple scrollwork. Between the top gables on the river side a marble female bust and on the street side a male bust. On the roof a bell tower with bell 'M.E. Pieter Seest Amstelodami Ao 1763'. The facade on the Vecht side is plastered and painted white, the remaining facades of this part are painted white over the brickwork. The entrance on the street side has an 18th-century wooden surround and a roedevenster in the fanlight. The entrance is flanked by windows with small glazing bars (glazing bars from 1920). On the first floor and in the gable top windows with four-pane glazing bars. On the first floor the windows have shutters. The entrance on the Vecht side has a similar surround, but with curved bars (1835) in the fanlight and is flanked by fenêtres à terre (1908). Above the entrance a blind recess. Otherwise four-pane windows. On the south side is the music hall of brickwork, of which the bay window has a multi-sided termination. Coupled windows and a door on the south side. Above the windows across the entire width of the extension decorative brickwork with above it a brick balustrade with brick lattice work that encloses a balcony. On the north side a part built of brickwork under a gabled roof against a spout gable. Door and windows with small glazing bars.

The layout of the 18th-century section on the ground floor has changed little since construction. A central corridor (somewhat wider on the street side by way of a vestibule) runs from the entrance on the street side to the access on the Vecht side. On the right side there was in the 18th century the kitchen, a section with the staircase upstairs, a scullery, pantry, the staircase to the cellar and a lavatory and on the Vecht side a room. On the left side lay rooms en suite. All rooms on the ground floor were provided with fireplaces. On the first floor were the bedrooms. After the 1920 renovation the kitchen, scullery, service kitchen and lavatories were relocated to the new extension on the north side. The old kitchen was fitted out as a billiard room. The room on the right at the back became a dining room. The layout of the first floor realised in 1920 is largely intact. Of the furnishings the following components are of historical value:

- the cellar covered with glazed tiles, with suspended floor;

- the corridor paved with marble plates with eight symmetrically placed doors with moulded surrounds, giving access to four rooms and the staircase upstairs, alternated by blind recesses;

- the stucco ceiling above the vestibule with almond-shaped stucco ornament of olive branches with Mercury head in radiant crown (1835);

- the right front room with fireplace (18th-century) and hardstone chimney cheeks (1920);

- the right back room with fireplace (19th century), wooden wall panelling and display cabinets in 18th-century forms;

- the left front room connected by 18th-century sliding doors with the room en suite. Fireplace mantel (1835) with wooden cornice in neo Louis XVI forms. Interior shutters;

- the left back room with simple ceiling beam, wooden wall panelling, fireplace (1835) and display cabinets as on the right;

- in the transverse corridor created in 1920 a corner fireplace with wooden cornice and oval mirror;

- music hall with slack curved ceiling with wooden rules. Windowsill flanked by built-in cabinets on the street side. Two marble fireplaces (late 18th, early 19th century);

- service kitchen with mosaic floor in yellow, grey, black and white.

Appreciation

The MAIN BUILDING 'Vecht en Lommer' belonging to the historic country estate Vecht en Lommer is of general cultural-historical importance:

- because of its age;

- because of its type;

- as a good example of an 18th-century country estate which at the beginning of the 20th century was adapted and arranged to the standards of habitability of that time;

- because of its location opposite the village of Loenen;

- as a reminder of a chain of country estates of which only a few remain.