Skindles

No. 57. So-called "Skindles Hotel" cf. e.g. Inscription on wooden board atop the pediment. Name derived from the "Skindles Hotel" in Maidenhead on the Thames, standing for an English officers' club during WWI located in the now disappeared hotel known as "La Bourse du Houblon" at the location of the current no. 14. Classicist mansion on the corner of the cobblestoned, former fire lane formerly known as "Wateringstraete" leading to the St.-Bertinus pond that was filled in between the two world wars, near the Bommelaarsbeek. Behind it, a neglected tree-filled garden with a new salesroom located at the former coach house; garden wall with a basket arch doorway, looking onto the mentioned street. The mansion - inhabited for generations by the influential Renyughe family - functioned as a hotel from around 1919 for a time cf. the preserved name; now rather neglected in appearance. Double house of five bays and two stories under a curved, broken saddle roof (n // street, slate, Flemish tiles), from the 18th century, but possibly with an older core cf. the left gable with inward and outward curves and remnants of a brick frieze with fluted, short pilasters on consoles, beneath a small cornice. Yellow brick construction; gray-painted plinth. Facade marked by a central risalit of three bays under a triangular pediment with bas-relief of the hunting goddess Diana (previously a statue of Mary?), and blocky, colossal corner pilasters under a profiled, heavy cornice (brick). In the middle risalit: round-arched wall openings with rocaille keystone (including shell motif) and granite threshold stones, on elaborately worked consoles on the upper floor. Furthermore, arched windows in a brick, flat framing with reveals, ears, and rocaille key stone. Preserved woodwork: so-called "French windows" with shutters on the ground floor; panel door decorated with rosettes, lion's head, and stylized flower and leaf motifs, under an extended intermediate lintel on consoles and a two-part transom window. Flat rear facade: arched wall openings with extended ends; more recent veranda leaning against the ground floor. Left side facade: gable top cf. infra; extended chimney on natural stone corbels (right replaced by concrete) under the same lintel; granite corner post on the right. Partially preserved 18th-century B-interior dominated by Louis XV and Louis XVI style elements. In the hall, wooden staircase with baluster in the form of a herm. In the two salons, wainscoting including mirrors, decorated stucco ceilings with gold and yellow painting, panel doors, and fireplaces in Louis XVI style and Empire style respectively. Against the rear facade on the right: perpendicular added wing with well-preserved kitchen. Six bays and two stories under a gable roof (Flemish tiles), from the late 18th century. Anchored brick construction, gray-painted above a scored plinth. Facade side fire lane: three oculi with diamond-shaped grid division, right on the ground floor; above it, two rectangular window frames. Rear facade: slightly recessed rectangular window frames; on the upper floor, door window with granite, acutely arched threshold and iron, elaborately worked railing with festoons and medallion featuring the initials of Benediktus F.J. van Renyughe. Right side gable: rectangular windows including barred, narrow window frame on the ground floor; similar ocular on the upper floor. TILLIE W., Historical facades and buildings. Monument Year 1975, Poperinge, 1975, p. 42-44. TILLIE W., Skindles in good and bad days (Aan de Schreve, XVII, 1, 1987, p. 3-18).

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