Woonhuis, Harinxmastrjitte 27

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The RESIDENTIAL HOUSE built in 1737 is situated opposite a side street, where previously there was a back garden with a tea house. The distinguished house with baroque (Louis XIV) entrance section was built on the orders of the hay-barge master Bauke Aukes and his wife Janke Ennes. The date 1737 is stated in the cartouches at the gable top. The house came into the possession of Wigle Annes Visser in 1790, "merchant in fish and eel", member of the renowned Heger merchant family Visser. The house was sold in 1904 and subsequently served as the dwelling of the headmaster of the reformed school. The school was built in the back garden. In the nineteen-seventies an 18th-century painting was discovered on one of the doors of the living room, depicting Love. Two doors that disappeared from the same room probably bore symbolic representations of Hope and Faith. The house has a shallow front garden with a boundary fence in the form of 19th-century cast-iron railings, attached to six ashlar bollards.

Description

The house is built in brown-red handmoulded brick from a rectangular plan and comprises one storey under a hipped roof covered with glazed Dutch tiles with covered chimneys at the roof ridge corners. The distinction of the symmetrical front facade is determined by the richly worked, entirely sandstone executed, baroque central section, in which the entrance is situated. The slightly projecting central section, related to the bell gable, with dormer is richly decorated with sculptural ornament, the inscription ANNO 1737, an alliance coat of arms and the initials of the client. The risalit contains a door between narrow side lights and a six-pane fanlight, in which originally a sash window was situated. The two windows on either side of the risalit are, as is the window in the dormer, provided with frames with glazing bars and shutters and stand under sculptured sandstone lintels with moulding and ornament. The drip moulding interrupted by the central section rests on six carved consoles. The left side facade is blank and is only provided with four long rod wall anchors. Against the rear facade to the left of the back door stands a post-war extension and to the right of the door this facade is provided with a cast-iron grille window. Above the door lies a series of four cast-iron decorative anchors. Determining the appearance of the facade is a large dormer, partly constructed of brick (lower part) and partly of wood (upper part) with a flat roof. The right side facade is largely hidden from view by new building. At the top of this facade four rod wall anchors are still visible. The house has a small formal front garden with a boundary fence in the form of six octagonal ashlar bollards, between which 19th-century cast-iron railings. INTERIOR. The interior of the house on the ground floor is still partly in the original state. The central corridor is provided with marble floor tiles and marbled wainscoting. The front room to the left of the corridor still contains the original wardrobe wall with three sets of folding doors. Beneath the upper paint layers the original paintings are still present, which have been partly made visible. In this room stands a wooden fireplace, of which both the chimneypiece and the breast are made of wood. The ceiling is also entirely of wood. On either side of the windows standing above the windowsills are wooden cabinets, in which folding blinds may possibly have been situated. The windows in the front room to the right of the corridor are similarly framed. This room has a beam ceiling and panel doors, which were originally provided with paintings. The last of the originally probably three panel paintings was removed from the house by the previous owner.

Valuation

The residential house is of general importance due to its cultural-historical, architectural-historical and ensemble value. The house has cultural-historical value as a notable example of a development in residential house architecture for the wealthy and due to its occupational history. The house has architectural-historical value due to the distinctive design, the use of materials and the detailing of in particular the central section of the front facade. The house has ensemble value due to its location and as a notable and character-determining component of the buildings in the historic centre of Heeg. The house is furthermore important due to the recognizability and the large degree of intactness of the exterior and parts of the interior.