Zypendaal

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Description

Description

Main building HUIS ZYPENDAAL. The country estate Zypendaal came into the hands of the Arnhem city secretary Mr. Hendrik Willem Brantsen and his wife Johanna Elisabeth de Vree in 1743. Around 1762-1764 they had the existing mid-17th-century house demolished and a new block-shaped building, slightly to the south of it, erected in a sober 18th-century architecture with richly emphasised central section designed by Hendrik Viervant. Between 1803 and 1805 alterations took place by R.R. Viervant, carpenter Van Daalen and plasterer M. Werkson. A large number of windows were replaced by sash windows with a larger glazing bar pattern. A major renovation took place in 1883-1884 in which the office of P.J.H. Cuypers was involved. During this period the tower with its crown was added inspired by that of Ruurlo castle, the roof entirely renewed and fitted with a balustrade and extra roof dormers were added. The vestibule was extended forward using elements of the old entrance section and acquired a balcony. Also by Cuypers are the ashlar balconies with wrought-iron balustrades. The glazing bars of most early 19th-century windows were altered, whilst retaining the frame. Around 1900 (1894?) a narrow antichambre on the south-east corner of the house was extended to the present-day salon with bow window, which was later heightened once more. In the seventies and eighties of the 20th century the house was restored with the rooms on the left side of the piano nobile and the sash windows being reconstructed. The piano nobile is fitted out with a number of period rooms with objects from the Brantsen collection.

EXTERIOR. The almost square house, constructed of brick, stands on an ashlar plinth and consists of a basement, piano nobile, first floor and an attic storey. It is finished with a surrounding hipped roof covered with slate. On all sides roof dormers with segmental pediment and glazed windows. Above the (wider) roof dormer of the central bay a clock from 1888, made by The Hague city clockmaker L.F.W. Volcke. Two bell-casts by Petit and Fritsen. Corner chimney stacks with iron crowns and a balustrade between them. Against the south-east corner stands a building section with equal storey height but under a flat roof. In the angle between the rear facade and the extension stands a slender tower with Baroque helmet roof. All windows with lightly arched reveal. The windows of the piano nobile on the left side facade have a (reconstructed) small glazing bar pattern. Otherwise, with the exception of the basement, the window distribution follows the design of the Cuypers office. On the central bay of the symmetrically arranged front facade an extended vestibule with balcony adjoins. The lower storey is clad with 18th-century ashlar plates with pilasters and Corinthian capitals. Beside it iron fittings with a bell-cast 'Johannes Specht Ao 1734 Rotterdam'. Curved wrought-iron balcony. Above the balcony doors ashlar plates with the Brantsen coat of arms with on either side the coats of arms of the Brantsen and Mossel grandparents (left) and Van Heeckeren and Van Pabst van Bingerden (right). The vestibule has a lower storey with round-arched passages clad with rustically worked ashlar plates. The lower storey is accessible via ashlar steps on either side of the vestibule. The lower passage gives access to the basement on the one hand and to a vaulted space beneath the forecourt on the other. On either side of the vestibule stand iron balustrades between natural stone posts on the quay walls. On the right side facade a curved balcony over the three central bays of the piano nobile and a balcony on the first floor for the central window. The brickwork of the tower and extension on the rear differs in colour from the rest. Extended bow window over two storeys which rests on two natural stone corbels. On the first floor a five-sided natural stone facade stone with 'Zypendal 1650' and the coat of arms Tulleken and Everwijn. In the upper part of the facade a round-arched window. In the north facade of the tower a stone with '1883'. Across the entire width there is a round-arched passage at the rear where the drains discharged. In the INTERIOR the layout is largely from the building period. All storeys have a central corridor with rooms on either side. The basement, accessible from outside by two stairs next to the vestibule and from inside via a curved flight of stairs behind the stairwell. Central corridor with marble plates. Most windows with railings, except in the newly built section. A number of rooms with internal shutters. Cellar on the left front with barrel vaults on wooden beams. The decoration of the rooms on the piano nobile with panelled wainscots, stucco ceilings and fireplaces is largely in the Louis XV style. It is assumed that much of this was realised during the renovation by the Cuypers office. The windows are provided with internal shutters and window sills. The rooms on the piano nobile are accessible both from the corridor and interconnected with each other, on the right side by means of an enfilade, on the left side they form rooms in suite. The vestibule with stucco ceiling in Louis XV style. Wooden flight of steps with richly carved newel and balusters in Louis XV style. The 18th-century stairs were supplemented at the end of the 19th century with extra landing balustrades. Adjacent to the stairs a built-in cupboard wall. Central corridor with white marble floor and woven chequer patterns in black, red and sand-coloured marble from 1890. Wooden wainscoting, broad arched and moulded frames with panel doors (18th-century). Above the doors stuccoed panels with cornices, basket-arched panels with ornament. Ceiling in Louis XV style. The Blue Room (front right) has wooden panelled wainscoting and a simple stucco ceiling with corner ornaments. Fireplace with wooden lintel and arched mirror, marble mantel in Louis XV style. Central room on right (Gentlemen's Room) with panel wainscoting, stucco ceiling in Louis XV style, wooden fireplace with mantel with fluted pilasters, lintel with carved columns, mirror and cornice, late 19th century. Back room on right (Red Salon) was originally a cabinet and was enlarged around 1900. Wooden panel wainscoting, stucco ceiling in Louis XV style, fireplace with richly ornamented marble mantel and wooden lintel with mirror in Louis XIV frame. The Ladies' Salon (front left) has wooden panel wainscoting, stucco ceiling in Louis XV style, white marble fireplace mantel (late 19th century) and double sliding doors to the dining room. Dining room with wooden parquet floor with star patterns, wooden panel wainscoting, stucco ceiling in Louis XV style, richly carved wooden fireplace in Louis XIV forms (19th century) from house Doorn near Zwolle, transferred in 1907 to the house Willemsplein 20 in Arnhem and since 1970 in Zypendaal. Behind the dining room a serving room. On the first floor a central corridor and a ceiling with simple beam layer. Attic storey with central corridor. In the rear section a stuccoed barrel vault with transverse arch on ornamented corbels. The space of the tower is covered with a wooden cross vault of bead sections.

Valuation

Main building HUIS ZYPENDAAL belonging to the historical country estate Zypendaal of particular architectural, cultural-historical and urban planning significance

- due to its age

- due to its architecture

- as a fine example of a Gelderland regent house from the mid-18th century

- due to its place in the oeuvre of Hendrik Viervant

- due to the late 19th-century modernisation and extension within the 18th-century concept

- due to the well-preserved 18th-century layout of the house

- due to the finely preserved interior elements

- due to its location in the middle of the 19th-century landscape park

- due to the visual and functional spatial relationship with the other buildings on the country estate