Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

Waterland in Velsen

betekenis & definitie

(Rijksweg 116). From 1717 onwards, a farmer's yard served as a country retreat. Under the leadership of Pieter de Swart, the Trip family built the present country house in 1762-'66, a white-plastered block-shaped house with basement, pronkrisalite and slightly protruding corner parts with checkered corner axes. Many interior elements in Louis XV style have been retained, including the richly decorated staircase with decorations that refer to the outdoors. The Herenkamer contains wallpaper paintings from elsewhere and three 'witjes' by Jan Augustini. The antechamber is equipped with grisaillebovendeurstukken and the Summer Room has wallpaper from about 1850.

A part of the park was created at the end of the 18th century for Archibald Hope, after a design in early landscape style by Johan Georg Michael (1781). In the beginning of the 20th century, changes were made to L. A. Springer's plans. In the park there are various 17th and 18th century garden statues. On the west side there is a vegetable garden with a brick garden wall (probably 18th century), of which the 19th-century wrought iron entrance gate originates from a house on the Vecht.

There is also an ice cellar (1789), an 18th century stable house with two-aisle back house (Rijksweg 114, restored 1993), a coach house (Rijksweg 112; 1904), a gardener's house (Rijksweg 118; 1913) and a porter's house (Rijksweg 108; 1920).