Woonhuis, Dam 4

English translation

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Description

Prominent residential building three bays wide and three storeys high on the front facade, located at a striking point in the oldest town centre. Austere cornice-topped facade in fine brickwork with brick pilasters one and a half bricks thick above lightly arched windows in the transitional style from Louis XVI to Empire, first half of the 19th century. Main frame with block consoles beneath the cornice. Straight blockwork moulding above the front door supported by two elongated leaf consoles. Dike house with in front a brick-vaulted basement and behind an additional residential storey. Basement and floors largely 17th century; roof truss structure and interior early 19th century and later. On the ground floor three chimney stacks, the early 19th century chimneys flanked by Corinthian pilasters in stucco, the marble mantels late 19th century. Stucco ceilings with vegetative ornaments. In the rear room a large three-light window with semicircular fanlight in which a polychrome peacock figure in stained glass, 20th century. Staircase with openwork carved balusters, decorated with ornament in the transitional style Louis XVI to Empire, first half of the 19th century, and with upper baluster in the form of a pineapple supporting a Doric column, Empire, also first half of the 19th century.