Winkelwoning, Frederikstraat 8

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

Building block on rectangular ground plan from 1882-1883 on the corner of the Frederikstraat and Prinses Mariestraat consisting of four casco's with four shops and upper dwellings, designed by A. Stigter in neo-Renaissance style. Description.

The building block, set up as an architectural unit, consists of four casco's with originally four shops and four upper dwellings comprising ground floor, two storeys and attic storey in a continuous, chamfered hipped roof. In total the complex has eleven window bays on the Prinses Mariestraat and five on the Frederikstraat of which the one on the corner is bevelled. The façades are partly rendered and partly executed in fair-faced brickwork and particularly richly ornamented. The middle two bays of no. 8/10 on the Frederikstraat are executed as a risalite and have on the ground floor wall piers with diamond heads with Doric capitals, furthermore on the first and second storeys brick pilasters with Composite capitals. The ground floor of Frederikstraat 8/10 possesses rustic rendering and on either side of the arched entrance placed on plinths are Doric wall columns which by means of scroll consoles with foliate ornament carry a rectangular bay window. For the rest only the façade of 7/7a, the corner section and the cornices terminating the storeys are rendered. The bay window has a three-part window with blind balustrade, flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters placed on plinths and crowned by a double festoon in the stucco. The bay window carries a balcony with balustrade; the window above is flanked by fluted pilasters with Composite capitals. The entrance of Frederikstraat 10 is arched with a door decorated in neo-Renaissance, provided with an ornamental grille and a fanlight, in the right window bay. Prinses Mariestraat 3/5, 7/7a and 7b/7c form a symmetrical ensemble of which the outer two houses are conceived as risalites and have a pilaster arrangement like the risalite of Frederikstraat 8/10. The ground floors of these three properties contain three shop fronts, the middle one is arched and has a keystone with mask head and is flanked by a door for the dwelling house and a door for the shop. The broad middle axis of no. 7/7a has pilasters per storey, above the three-part window of the storey a cartouche with the year built 1882 and a segmental broken pediment with a blind balustrade within it. The four windows of the second storey are set within moulded round-arched frames on small pillars. Nos. 3/5 and 7b/7c have projecting middle axes, above which the main cornice of the façade has a frieze with triglyph consoles and a crowning broken pediment. This pediment has been removed at 7b/7c. The corner property too has similar consoles in the bevelled bay and the risalite under the moulded main cornice that crowns the façade. The continuous hipped roof has higher built-up sections with non-authentic roof dormers above the corner bay and the risalites. The windows are set in moulded frames with keystones and have undivided fanlights or fanlights with leaded glass. The balustrades below the windows on the first storey are blind. Evaluation.

The building block on the corner of Frederikstraat and Prinses Mariestraat is of architectural-historical importance as a well-preserved example of a combination of shop-dwelling houses in rich neo-Renaissance. The main form, detailing and the material used are intact. An added value is the important urban planning situation.