Woonhuis, Oude Delft 73

English translation

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Description

DWELLING HOUSE consisting of front and rear house. Building with well-preserved, three-bay wide Louis XIV cornice-topped facade. Surround of door, fanlight and upper window likewise Louis XIV. Door frame in the same style applied during restoration in 1992. Carved consoles below the cornice both above the wall piers and above the windows. Hard stone plinth with volute-shaped ornaments. Arched window surrounds; glazing bars dating from restoration in 1992. Side walls and composite beam layers dating from reconstruction not long after the city fire of 1536, natural stone consoles in the front room hacked away. Remains of a painted 17th-century wooden plank ceiling on the first floor above the hallway. Further distinguished 18th-century fittings with rich stucco hallway in full length along front and rear house with white marble floor (Louis XIV). In the front room carved wooden Rococo ceiling ornaments and bosom decoration in Empire style. Rear facade with still partially 16th-century brickwork, in which hard stone two-light of the cellar, on the storeys windows in 19th-century forms, the cross windows at the top, dating from the restoration in 1992, are copies of an attic window. Rear house also in the core 16th-century with later wooden and covered infill around and between the main timber posts. The entire house restored in 1992. Dwelling house of architectural-historical importance.