Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

Hilverbeek in 's-Graveland

betekenis & definitie

(Leeuwenlaan 7). This country estate was built around 1725 by Hendrik Bicker. The mid-18th century house with mezzanine was executed in Louis XIV style. The middle riots on the front and garden sides are decorated with sculptures and alliance weapons. The extended bay windows of the entrance and at the short sides of the house have rounded side facades. The house was renovated in 1922 -25 under the direction of J.W. Hanrath. Inside there is a hall and a corridor with stucco ceilings from the construction period.

The park was changed to landscape style in 1811-30 and changed again in 1919 (L.A. Springer) and 1922 -25 (D.F. Tersteeg). A snake wall remains from the first construction (circa 1730). Other garden elements are a neo-Gothic bridge and an ice cellar. There are plastered service houses (circa 1840), a gardener's house (Leeuwenlaan 3) and a coach house with a service residence (Leeuwenlaan 1-5, circa 1860). The neo-classicist orangery, which was developed by the coach house, is crowned with sculpted busts at the corners of the flat roof.