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Van Ransthuis

Location Tienen Belgium

Constructed in: 1661

Typology: patrician house

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A double house in #Tienen (Vlaams-Brabant) with two storeys and a taller central risalit dated 1661 on the keystone above the door's fanlight. The brick construction is enriched with white sandstone. It features Tuscan-capitaled pilasters on a limestone plinth separate the bays and support the cornice; on the upper floor, similar Ionic pilasters beneath a wide entablature. It has rectangular windows with slightly projecting frames (formerly cross-windows) and a round-arched door surround with fanlight framed by volutes and a pediment. The central risalit designed as a gable top: shoulders with vase-decorated covers, short neck with triangular pediment and finial vase; rectangular loading window flanked by volutes.

Van Ransthuis