COUNTRY HOUSE. The main building was designed in 1863 by P.J. H. Cuypers for the De Zantis family. The design is eclectic, with many neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic style features. The brick building was whitewashed in the course of the 20th century. It consists of two wings at right angles to each other with a stair tower in the armpit. The building was built against the farm (see section 3). The main wing has two relatively high storeys under a roof floor, on an equally high basement floor. The ground floor is approximately one metre above ground level. The saddle roof, covered with grey Tuil du Nord and right-facing Dutch tiles, has a wide overhang, also at the gables. The other wing has the same number of storeys, but because the basement floor is missing and the storeys are lower, this part of the building appears to be one storey lower. This lower wing is structurally connected to the farm; the hipped roof is covered with grey tiles. The square tower, the eaves of which are at the ridge height of the main wing, has a tent roof, covered with grey slates in Maas covering, the roof surfaces of which are triangularly indented. In the tower a simple ascending straight staircase with landings and railings with bevelled and notched slats. In the hall and on the first floor large windows with star motifs, around the doors and in the stairwell crenellations. In the living rooms composite beam layers with trough vaults and two polychrome marlstone mantelpieces. The neo-Gothic mantelpieces are provided with black marble columns and cover plates. The interior was probably executed by Cuypers' art workshop "Cuypers en Co" in Roermond.
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