The Martenahuis or Martenastins (West Frisian: Martenahûs) is a stins (estate) in the centre of the Dutch city of Franeker, Friesland.

The Martenahuis was built in 1502,[1] by order of the Frisian chieftain Hessel van Martena (±1460–1517), a frontman of the Schieringers, who originally came from Koarnjum, in the municipality of Leeuwarden.

[6] In March 1584, when Amelia van Grombach owned the building, twenty houses were leased on the site of the stins for the expansion of Franeker.

In the deed of sale, it is stated that the tenant at the time was Walraven Willem Noodt, while Sjoerd Faber and Koenraad Ysbrandi also lived in the cellars of the property.

[7] Albartus Telting died in 1863,[11] after which the Martenahuis remained in the possession of his widow Anna Cornelia Henriëtte Huguenin for another thirty years.

The Martenahuis thus lost its function as a town hall in 1984,[3] but continued to be used as an office building for the municipal organization for several years.

This entrance and the square that lay in front of it could be reached through a gate building with an upper house that used to stand on the east side next to the stone wall.

The room attic consisting of beams with boards over it was removed from the face by a coffered ceiling with painted surfaces.

In the twentieth century, during the restoration of 1971–1972, the stone cross windows were returned to their original form, including blue-painted blinds on the outside of the building.

[17] The Martenatuin is the adjoining garden behind the Martenahuis, where a lot of so-called stins plants grow, and which, in terms of size, is almost like a small park.

This garden, which now starts immediately behind the stins, in the place where the square in front of the main entrance to the tower was originally located, was designed in 1694 by order of Suffridus Westerhuis in the style of the French landscape architect André Le Nôtre.

In 1834, by order of Albartus Telting, the Martenatuin was presumably redecorated by the Leeuwarden landscape architect Lucas Pieters Roodbaard.