Winkelwoning, Brink 2

English translation

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Description

NORTHEASTERN ROW OF SHOPHOUSES WITH GATE, TOWER AND TRANSFORMER HOUSE. The row of shophouses with gate from 1926-28 is laid out largely symmetrically, but deviates from this by the tower on Veeteeltstraat; on the Brink side the row comprises two storeys in which below are four shops, alternated by two dwellings each with four coupled windows - together with the shop windows projecting - and above a continuous window row in a spandrel. On the blunt street corners two low volumes with shops have been built out, each with walled balcony, separated by two dwellings, onto which the three-storey development on the northwest side adjoins, with a walled balcony on the second storey and a chimney at the corner indentation. The facade on Landbouwstraat is further articulated by the entrance with canopy (no. 51), which also overhangs the side entrance (no. 49a), on the left, by a row of seven windows on both floors, and on the right above the shop entrance (no. 53) a projecting building volume with two small square windows. The slightly curved facade on Veeteeltstraat has beside the projecting volume near the shop - originally a cafe - a volume projecting over two storeys with on each storey a row of sixteen three-light windows above the coupled entrances, and is terminated by a tower with four, partly gilded, clock faces, and a constricted and projecting cylindrical crown with dentil moulding and likewise spire in copper; the tower also serves as overhang of the eastern entrance portico (no. 106) with two doors, and is supported by a black and white tiled pier on a high breast wall; at the right side facade the second storey has been cut back, while the facade at the first storey has three square windows. The rear facade of this row has on the storeys standing windows throughout, originally three-light windows.

The adjoining transformer house, without storey, has three ventilation openings above the iron access door and otherwise blind facades.

The gate dwellings spanning Brinkstraat are supported by two rows of five columns and flat beams that are constricted above and below in favour of decorative blocks projecting toward the higher central passage; in the low side passages the access doors to the gate dwellings (nos. 86, 88, 153, 155 (formerly 93) are incorporated, which on the northeast side have a shared row of ten windows and two small square windows to either side in the street wall, onto which the built-out dwellings directly adjoin with facades projecting once above the recessed square windows, on the northwest side provided with an extra door and on the northeast side the access in a portico to no. 84 and furthermore an overhanging balcony on the storey on the northeast side. Adjacent the low wings originally intended for respectively a bicycle storage facility, workshop and pharmacy laboratory (western) and a bakery and storage (eastern) with high-placed recessed windows in all facades, alternated by two - recent - double garage doors and a shop window at the gate side (nos. 151 formerly 89, 82); the rear facades are cut back obliquely.