Nijenburg

English translation

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Description

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Description

MAIN BUILDING Huis Nijenburg, 1705-1710, 1718; brick building erected in two phases on a T-shaped plan with shallow broad front house and virtually square rear house; the T-shaped plan was created in 1718; low ground storey; above it a high bel-étage under a hipped roof with hidden Dutch tiles and four corner chimneys with inward-curving wrought-iron caps, two on the front house and two on the rear house; the front slope of the front house has covering tiles on the left; the plastered front facade, the appearance of which in Empire style was created by a renovation in 1831 and 1860, has five bays with banded pilasters on the corners; in the centre a slightly projecting entrance section under a balcony carried by double columns; on the rich cornice above the entrance section stood a wooden attic between 1830 and 1931; the ground floor has 6-light windows, the storey 8-light windows. The latter windows were installed during a renovation of the house in 1850 by architect J. Verheij from Alkmaar, during which the windows on the storey installed in 1831 were moved to the rear facade and the present (higher) windows were installed. The brick rear facade has four bays; the lower house has 4-light windows, the bel-étage 10(!)-light windows; banded pilasters on the corners and between the outer windows. Low annexes under lean-to roofs on either side of the house. South of the rear house is the library added in 1860. INTERIOR: the cellar contains a floor of red tiles; the kitchen still shows largely the original layout with tiling of small white tiles, wall cupboards on the east side (possibly 18th century); the summer kitchen (northern outbuilding) is also still largely 18th-century in layout and arrangement, with white marble and red Öland stone tiles on the floor, hardstone sink with pump; in the right outbuilding an 18th-century white marble fountain in Louis XV style; in the ground floor room a stove with fluted pilasters from 1831; across the entire north wall of the bedroom on the front ("blue room") a wall cupboard with richly decorated wooden panelling from c. 1730, with the stove in the centre and three grisailles from 1730 by Jan Hoogzaad at the top; in the upper room cupboards and stove from 1831; otherwise marble mantels from 1850; floors with pine boards, stucco ceilings from the second half of the 19th century.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING Huis Nijenburg is of general cultural-historical importance:

- on account of its age;

- on account of its special architecture: the high-placed bel-étage and the T-shaped plan;

- on account of the "empiricization" of the front facade;

- on account of the exceptionally well-preserved interior.