Woonhuis, Burchtstraat 3

English translation

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Description

Introduction: Mansion with plastered front facade spanning seven bays, the front section covered by a hipped roof with the ridge parallel to the street, the two-part section behind covered by two high-rising gabled roofs with rear top gables. The property dates in origin from the last decades of the 17th century and was remodeled in the 19th century. Against the left side facade a coach house has been built.

Description:

The front facade comprises three storeys above a stone plinth, has similar drip mouldings and is concluded by a broad moulding. On the ground floor and first floor six-pane sash windows have been fitted, the mezzanine contains four-pane sash windows. On either side of the centrally placed door a natural stone stoep provided with eight stone bollards with chains, resting on spherical consoles. Internally the main structure of what were originally two separate properties has been preserved. On the ground floor a long corridor divides the monument in two; the corridor is provided with a portail and laid with white marble slabs and has a plastered cornice moulding with fruit and leaf motifs and three stucco ornaments in the ceiling. The front room on the right of the ground floor contains a white marble fireplace and a cornice moulding in which mascarons are incorporated; the ceiling is divided with a geometric surface division with stucco foliage work with fields bearing painted, mask-like male faces in the corners. The heads are all rendered en face, displaying orientalizing features and slight variations in nuance or facial expression. In the back room a red marble chimney and fireplace mantel with double moulding in which leaf motifs are incorporated; the ceiling is provided with a centrally placed stucco ornament: a symmetrical candelabra supplemented with leaf, flower and foliage motifs and moulding with acanthus leaf. On the ground floor, left at the front, and accessible by means of a paneled door on which flowers are painted, a black marble fireplace with scattered red marking and a stucco ceiling divided into five compartments bounded by mouldings on which stucco flower motifs are applied, four compartments executed with stucco reliefs containing references to hunting and fishing, the octagonal central compartment likewise with stucco fruit and acanthus motifs. The basement and tiled kitchen is located left at the rear and has a fireplace with smoke hood. Against the rear facade a conservatory was presumably built at the beginning of the 19th century; below it is a basement, presumably for water storage. Oak staircase to the first floor with carved mascarons on the sides, a baluster-form oak stair post and wrought-iron balusters; four stucco consoles mark the transition from corridor to stairwell. On the first floor various elements represent historical value: among others a cabinet wall in the stairwell, the arch opening between what were originally two separate properties, a grey marble fireplace mantel and a panel with neo-Gothic five-pass and oak leaf decoration (front room), a grey marble fireplace mantel and a panel with pilasters, capitals and three-pass motif (back room), flower stucco work on the ceiling (back room). Painted decoration in the corners of the ceiling (front room). The stairwell has a (modern) skylight with surrounding plastered cornice moulding provided with egg-and-dart moulding and cartouches. A roof represents structural historical value, as it is provided with hacked carpenters' marks I through IIII. The former coach house is a simple brick service building with gabled roof with tiles, plastered top gable and a hay door on the first floor.

Assessment:

Burchtstraat 3 possesses urban planning value as it provides the historic street image with an essential component as a result of the old building volume and the high degree of representativeness expressed in the front facade with the stoep and bollards as well as in the adjoining coach house. Due to the clearly distinguished and legible building periods the property represents general interest: there are two main phases in the building history namely a 17th-century and a 19th-century phase, and these characterize the monument in its main structure and appearance. This development history is of general interest for scholarship, in particular for architectural history and building history, it being noted that the original main structure (walls, beam layers) of the properties has been preserved. The rich and varied stucco work on fireplace mantels, cornice mouldings and ceilings represents, by virtue of the unity of style, the same period of origin and the fine degree of ornamentation, a general art historical value.