It is a type of a building with four corner extensions which extend the longer elevation.

History

The source literature mentions two dates of the construction of the manor house in Jasionna. One is the first quarter of the 18th century, before 1729, when Maciej Załuskowski was the owner of the estate. However, more sources mention the year 1752 as the date on which the house was supposedly ordered to be built by Paweł Załuskowski. A stone with an inscription “The house was built by P. Załuskowski from Kaliszowice in 1752 and renovated by Erasmus in 1852” has survived to this day. Today, it is incorporated within the western elevation of the building, having previously stood in the park.

The building was made of larch wood. Its square corner extensions jutted out from the sides of the shorter elevations. It was a single-storey building with a habitable attic. In 1852, the building was remodelled and given a mostly brick form. The areas between the corner extensions were filled with new walls. A columned porch was added from the south and a rectangular brick outbuilding from the north. There were 18 rooms in the manor house. In one of the corner extension, there was a family chapel. The second one was used as a library and family archives and the other two served as an orangery.

In 1917, the manor complex was sold to the Gutowski family of the Ciołek coat of arms.

After the Second World War, it became the property of the State Treasury and was adapted for use as a primary school.

The manor house was renovated several times in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Description

The manor complex is located in the eastern part of the village of Jasionna, near the road connecting Wieluń with Złoczew. The manor house was built on a small hill. It is surrounded by a park of historical value covering an area of ​​approximately 4 ha. Its façade faces south. An alley provides access to the manor house from the west. There are numerous old tree species in the park.

The two-storey building was erected on a floor plan of an elongated rectangle. A perpendicular wing adjoins it from the north, erected on a floor plan of a rectangle too. In the shorter sides of the building, the space between the corner extensions is built-up today (the parts added more recently have the form of polygonal avant-corpses), as a result of which their shape is a little obscured. The walls of the first floor are set back in relation to the walls on the ground floor. The building has a four-hipped roof, while the corner extension are topped with onion-shaped cupolas. The northern wing added to the main body has two storeys and is covered with a flat gable roof.

The present day building is made of bricks, plastered on both sides and only the residential attic is still wooden. The roofs have sheet metal cladding. The corner extension have domes from fish-scale shingles.

The elevations are set on a low plinth. A prominent dentil cornice separates the ground floor from the attic. A similar solution was used under the window openings on the ground floor.

The southern elevation serves as the façade. In its central part, there is a porch which supports the balcony with a pair of columns and a pair of pillars. On both sides of the porch, there are two rectangular window openings with multi-section window woodwork. The elevation is flanked by two corner extensions, whose walls are accentuated by two pilasters. The corner extensions are crowned with onion-shaped cupolas covered with wood shingles.

The attic part is set back in relation to the ground floor. It has 9 axes, with the door leading to the terrace being the middle axis. The other ones are set by the quadrangle window openings. The whole is crowned with a high, four-hipped roof clad with sheet metal.

In the eastern elevation, the most protruding element is the pentagonal avant-corps occupying the area between the corner extensions. It has one storey. The northern elevation, designed in a similar way as the southern one, is adjoined by a two-storey wing with an irregular pattern of window openings. Its walls lack any decorative elements. The wall of the western elevation includes the stone inscribed with information about the construction and renovation of the manor house. It was placed on a wall of one of the corner extensions. As in the eastern elevation, the area between the corner extensions is filled with an avant-corps, here a three-sided one.

The interior has a two-bay, enfilade layout, with the main entrance on the axis.

The park and the manor house can be viewed from outside all year round. The building can be visited inside upon prior arrangement with the headmaster of the school.

Compiled by Anna Michalska, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Łódź. 12 February 2018

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