Transport, Stationsplein 2

English translation

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Description

STATION BUILDING from 1864 with central section from 1904. The building dates from the initial construction of the State Railways and belongs to the 3rd class type. Main building on square ground plan, two storeys high with truncated hipped roof. Large round-arched windows, flanked by narrow tall lights in the facades, which are all plastered and decorated with struck joints. Cornice decorated with stucco triglyphs and "rosettes". Roof dormers. Interior of the hall in coloured brickwork, stained-glass windows and tilework tableaux. Low side wings with coupled round-arched windows, ended by corner blocks with truncated hipped roofs. The right side wing is executed somewhat more richly with central projection with triangular pediment. Wall pilasters with horizontal joints in the plasterwork. Corniced cornice. The rear of the station building is likewise equipped with coupled round-arched windows; the station canopy consists of three sheds, two smaller and one large, which are carried by a simply profiled cast-iron structure. Reckoned from the building the first two sheds with curved roofs, the third with a gabled roof plus a canopy, in order of size small, large, small. The first shed has lattice trusses of the polonceau type, the upper edge of which has a curved half-round profile. The second has lattice trusses of the sickle-truss type with wall struts perpendicular to the edge struts, between which falling diagonals (N-form). In deviation from this apparently general type the sickle-trusses at Leeuwarden station under the light strip in the middle have a rectangular bay with crossing diagonals (X-form). The third shed is rendered and splayed, with lattice trusses of the polonceau type, simple (two fields per truss member). Since the demolition of the platform canopy at Zwolle the middle Leeuwarden shed is the last station canopy in the Netherlands with sickle-trusses.

On the platform two wooden platform buildings, partly in use as office building partly as kiosk. These are a one-storey wooden building on almost square ground plan with receding corner on one side, under flat roof. The walls are divided by worked panels and simple T-windows with fanlight. Below the windows worked panels. The simply profiled cornice is carried by pilasters with sculpted consoles. A second building in layout and material use corresponding with the aforementioned building, but is built on a rectangular ground plan and differs in detail somewhat.