Huis met het Stoepie

English translation

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Description

Introduction

In 1819 Wolter Hendrik Hofstede, son of the governor of Drenthe Petrus Hofstede, had a RESIDENTIAL HOUSE built on the Vaart that for a long time would be the last building on the north side of the Vaart. The house, built on the embankment of the canal dyke, which was known colloquially as the 'House with the Little Stoep', was inhabited until the first years of the twentieth century by two brothers Tonckens and is of the so-called Asser type. In 1903 the house underwent major renovation and then received its present appearance with the art nouveau entrance executed in the raised central section. In front of the house stands a wrought-iron FENCE.

Description. The building, erected from a rectangular ground plan, is partly single-storey and has a basement and a truncated hipped roof with steep roof slopes, which are covered with Dutch tiles. The five-bay-wide symmetrical front facade is provided with an entrance section in a high-rising central section, of which the second storey was added in 1903. On either side of the entrance is a recessed, rectangular basement entrance in cuckoo style and an equally rectangular window under stretch. Around the basement stands a wrought-iron railing between fluted cast-iron balusters on sandstone blocks. These are sunk into brick walls that enclose the paving of yellow handmade brick. A high sandstone stoep, the lowest steps of which are concrete, leads to a porch with a surround, which is provided with art nouveau decorations and a keystone in the horizontal elliptical arch closure. The porch contains on the left a somewhat obliquely placed, finely worked door with small windows and fanlight with glazing bars, which is identical to the door in the rear wall. However, this has a sidelight with muntins and stiles, which fills the rest of the rear wall. The right porch wall is covered with a particularly striking tile panel of pressed tiles with a composite decoration of relief-executed, stylized plant motifs and an upper border of decorations applied by means of the decalcomania method. The two windows on either side of the entrance section stand, like those on the upper storey, under stretch. The upper storey windows stand above a thin string course. The side facades and the lower parts of the front facade are terminated by an entablature with gutter moulding on corbels. The high-rising central section with three rectangular windows on the upper storey has a flat roof with a profiled gutter moulding. This storey was added later to replace the original wooden dormer. The left side facade is provided with bar anchors and windows as in the front facade. The roof is provided on this side with an added, jarring dormer. Against the rear wall stands a small extension under a sloping roof. The facade section of no. 66b is roughly rendered. The right side facade is not rendered and provided with a window hung with blinds.

Valuation

The characteristic house (with wrought-iron fencing) is of architectural-historical value as an example of representative residential architecture, in which special early twentieth-century elements are integrated into the much older main form. The eye-catching building is part of the valuable, predominantly nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century development on the Vaart, which belongs to the protected townscape. It therefore also has considerable ensemble value.