Slot Well

English translation

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Description

Description of component 1: MAIN BUILDING.

Main building (castle Well) consisting of three parts, of which the right building section may date from the 14th century, the middle section was added around 1600 and the left building section dates from 1884-1886. The latter section contained predominantly staff quarters. The right section lies under a high hipped roof, partly reconstructed in 1884-1885. In the facades and roof planes windows of various sizes. Building traces in the masonry. On the east side two projecting arkel turrets.

The middle section has 17th- and late 19th-century masonry on the south side. Here is located the main entrance (1928) with the arms of Van Malsen and Van Arkel and the date 1646. Windows with shutters (1928). This section is finished with a dwarf frieze and crenellations (1884-1885). On the north side the middle section has a large window (1928) to light the hall and staircase.

The left section (1884-1885) lies under a hipped roof, has a round tower at the southwest corner and a projecting arkel turret at the northwest corner. Windows and roof dormers of varying size. Above the door in the west facade the date 1885 and the arms of Van Slingelandt.

In the interior the furnishing of the hall with posts and beams and the staircase date from 1927-1928. Behind the hall lies the kitchen. Beneath the front section of the middle part lie two cellars side by side, one with a barrel vault, the other with a cross vault (around 1600). The chimney with sandstone consoles, decorated with festoons, cherub heads and masks and finely carved oak panelling on the inserted storey above the hall originates from a house in Zaltbommel. The painting on the ceiling of Raphael for Pope Julius II was executed in 1813 by the Belgian painter Odivaer. From the hall, corridors decorated with coloured tiles and meander work lead to the right and left sections. Those leading to the right section (the living quarters) are richer in detail than those leading to the left section (the staff section).

The layout of the originally vaulted right section was substantially altered after 1672. Floor levels were changed. With the adaptations in 1884-1886 and 1927-1928 mainly the decoration of the rooms was adapted. The plaster ceilings on the ground floor of the right section (a flat ceiling with mouldings and a cross vault in both rooms and three small cross vaults in the corridor) date from 1884-1885. The chimney in the corner room was inserted in 1969; the one in the dining room dates from the 1920s. On the first floor at the northeast corner is located the hall, the finest room in the house. The walls are covered with imitation gold leather wallpaper. The doors, shutters and wainscoting painted with stencilled decoration, Neo-Renaissance chimney all dating from 1884-1885. The room next to it with composite beam structure and 16th-century keypieces. On the second floor an undivided space with composite beam structure with the same late Gothic keypieces with pear-bead. The lower part of the late 16th(?)-century roof structure is provided with carved marks.

In the left section, accessible via a separate entrance in the west facade, there is a cellar with trough vaults and a scullery with pump (formerly the kitchen). In this section a service stair and two WCs were inserted in 1927. In the room to the left on the ground floor with wainscoting, composite beam structure with keypieces and machine-woven tapestries from 1927. Corner tower with seven-part radial vault and stained glass with among other things the tower and the arms of Hindelopen. This section can be closed off by a door from the rest of the house. On the floor above are bedrooms. In one of the rooms a marble chimney in Louis XVI forms originating from the old section.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING (castle Well), belonging to the historic country estate Well, is of cultural-historical importance:

- because of its age;

- because of its place in the history of the western river region;

- because of the extension with a wing in 1884-1885, in which a staff section separated from the main block was created, which is still recognizable as such;

- because of the building material used;

- because of a number of specifically named interior components;

- because of its location in the (cut-off) bend of the Meuse.