De Klinze

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Description

Introduction

The MAIN BUILDING (De Klinze) was built in 1655 by Hessel van Aysma under the name Aysmastate. The earliest known depiction from 1723 shows a rectangular building block of two storeys under a steeply pitched hipped roof; a description from 1721 mentions 'a certain splendid estate and lands with the great house, barn, water mill, and mill dikes, together with gardens, orchards, wood, enclosures, ditches, lanes, bridges and fencing'. Through sale the property came into the possession of the Van Sminia family in 1681, who altered and extended the house several times in the course of the 19th century. On a map of circa 1850 the house is shown on a rectangular moated site, accessible via an approach road perpendicular to it, flanked by woods, which crosses midway with a cross road (Rode and Zwarte Singel). The alterations in landscape style (particularly to the west of the road and around the house), which were realised from 1834 by landscape architect Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, are not recognisable on this map. During an alteration in 1877 by Arent Johannes van Sminia the appearance of the house is fundamentally changed: the walls are plastered, the roof lowered, the pediment replaced by a cornice, the windows provided with new glazing bars, eclectic mouldings and decorative plaster. After sale of the complex in 1966 by the last Van Sminia, these changes were partly reversed in an extensive restoration in the same year by Leeuwarder architect Zuidema: the plaster layer was removed, but the decorative plasterwork around the windows was retained, the extension to the central section was removed and a new pediment was installed. Since then the house has been characterised again by a predominantly 19th-century appearance. The house had wings on either side in the third quarter of the 19th century; the right wing was connected with the coach house. The house is today connected by a modern intermediate section with the coach house, rebuilt in 1987.

Description

The building, with a rectangular ground plan and cellarage, consists of two storeys under a broken gabled roof covered with ridge tiles (front facade) and slates (rear), with steep lower and flat upper roof slopes. On the front roof corners stand brickwork chimneys with caps and decorative crowns. The seven-bay-wide, symmetrical front facade with fairly high natural stone plinth is terminated by a cornice with moulded drip moulding and has a central risalite of three bays in which the entrance section is located. The risalite is flanked by two polygonal half columns, which support a triangular wooden pediment with centrally in the tympanum a round oeil-de-boeuf with festoons. The entrance section is accentuated on either side by two stone lions standing on stone balustrades. The entrance is further formed by a double door under a fanlight with radial glazing bars. On either side stands a window with glazing bars in a plastered field. The remaining windows (of the fenêtre à terre type) stand in fair-faced brickwork. They are also provided with frames with glazing bars and are accentuated by moulded profiles with hood mouldings. The facade is divided horizontally by a broad band course, which is interrupted in the middle by a balcony. The balcony rests on four consoles and has a balustrade with wrought and cast iron railings with centrally the coat of arms of the Van Sminia family. The front facade has plastered corner pilasters with spared fields on the corners. The left side facade is plastered and is divided horizontally by two cornices. The first floor has a window and a pair of glazed doors to a simple wooden balcony. The attic storey has two windows and a cornice. The rear facade contains four cellar windows in a dormer, a door standing between two small windows above a stone step with three windows to the right and two to the left, closed up with six-pane windows under relief. The symmetrically arranged floor above the slightly lower stairlight placed centrally in the facade, directly above the door, contains a cast iron grille window with a small window on either side. The four large windows on the first floor are like those on the ground floor. In the roof slope above are two wooden roof dormers with flat roofs, wing pieces and windows with glazing bars. The right side facade on the ground floor is hidden from view by the modern intermediate section, which connects the house with the coach house. The storeys above are comparable to those of the left side facade. Only the balcony with the associated doors is absent here. In the predominantly 19th-century INTERIOR the following are of importance:

In the various rooms the shutters for folding blinds, the window sills, the (partly) panelled interior doors within moulded frames, the stucco ceilings with relief decorations and the wainscoting; in the hall the marble tile floor and a broad counter with decorated keystones leading to the rear section with the staircase; furthermore a mirror within an early 19th-century, partly marbled frame, a marble fountain resting on a console, a cellar stair and a rounded arch doorway for the servants' stair; in the gentleman's room in the south-east corner of the house among other things a remarkable fireplace mantel of red and black marble around a cast iron hearth; in the rooms en suite along the entire ground floor on the west side of the house (in the front room) the panelled wainscoting, above which mouldings of stucco and consoles with lion heads connecting the walls and the richly decorated stucco ceiling; furthermore a 17th-century fireplace with marble chimney breast and a surround with sculpture and a painted panel with hunting scene; in the back room (the former dining room) a richly decorated stucco ceiling, panelled wainscoting in wood, a wooden fireplace with mirror in the surround and a serving hatch with eagle with young in carved work. Particularly notable is the virtually intact 17th-century wall covering in the form of tapestries. Of further importance are the two-part stair to the first floor with wooden treads, marbled wainscoting, moulded handrails on cast iron balusters and a generous landing; in the rooms along the corridor on the first floor the panelled interior doors within moulded frames. Two rooms with stucco ceilings have been combined into one, in which both marble fireplaces have been retained. Two other rooms likewise contain a marble fireplace and stucco ceiling. One of these rooms also has wainscoting. At the end of the corridor on the left is the servants' stair with a grille window that is filled with lace glass. The stair to the attic storey is comparable to that to the first floor. The light above the stairwell is filled with coloured stained glass. On the attic storey the panelled interior doors also have moulded frames. The cellar floors are laid with tiles. The cellar vaults are of the barrel vault type. On the cellar floor stands a carved newel post. In the modern intermediate section between the house and the coach house are wooden components of the saddle room of the former coach house.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING (De Klinze) is of general cultural-historical and architectural-historical importance:

- because of its age and the history of occupation

- as a fine example of a distinguished house built in eclectic style

- because of the special detailing and use of materials

- because of the coherence between interior and exterior

- because of the valuable interior components

- because of the visual and spatial relationship with the garden and the other components of the country estate