Woonhuis, Vaart Z.Z. 43

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Description

Introduction

The double DWELLING HOUSE built around 1905 is a fine example of residential architecture in the transition style that became more common around the turn of the century, in which characteristics of the neo-renaissance and art nouveau are combined. It is one of the buildings on the Vaart that were built in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the well-to-do Assen citizens and middle class, and are representative of the rapid development and growing prosperity of Assen and many Assenaren.

Description. The house, constructed of brick and facing brick from a rectangular ground plan, has a basement on the rear side and a storey under a hipped roof covered with boulet tiles. The symmetrical front facade is enlivened by a plastered plinth with moulded edge, band, various accents of stucco and facing brick, as well as a central risalit two bays wide. Within this is situated the entrance section, which consists of two porches with shouldered arch, with plastered walls with trompe-l'oeil joints and narrow side windows, as well as mascarons in the keystones of the porch arches. The doors are different. The left one is the original, richly worked winged door with frontispieces and art nouveau window ironwork under a fanlight. The right one is a door made in the building period of the house, but given the widened door posts, is probably from elsewhere. The day edges of the porch are provided with a standing beading. The closed windows on the ground floor are provided with glazed sills with sloping edge and stand under arch drums with brick mosaics and facing brick segmental arches with springers and keystones. Roman female heads are incorporated in these, which are connected to the band. The round-arch T-windows on the storey of the risalit have glazed sills with continuous sloping edge and facing brick round arches with mascarons in the keystones and a moulded edge. The broad, composite windows at either side are arched and provided with sills and female heads in the keystones of the segmental arches as with the ground-floor windows. The higher central risalit is terminated by a broken shoulder gable with built-up roof line, urns on the shoulders, climbing tooth frieze of facing brick, a built-up central section with closed windows under continuous lintel and facing brick mosaic in the drums of the segmental arches and the spanning arch with keystone. The broken cornice has volutes and a bracket with wrought-iron crowning. The horizontal facade terminations of front and side facades are of predominantly orange facing brick and bear a profiled gutter moulding. The side facades are provided with basement windows and one window per storey under span. The rear facade is terminated by a sawtooth band. Against the rear facade stands a wooden conservatory with flat roof, onto which a door with sidelight opens; furthermore a narrow extension with flat top and a single-storey brick extension, also with flat roof (the latter two are of secondary importance for protection). A lower small extension to this is of much more recent date and is not protected.

Valuation

The fairly well-preserved, characteristic house is of architectural historical importance as a typical representative of residential architecture for the better-situated in the transition style of around the turn of the century. The prominent building is part of the valuable nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century development on the Vaart and therefore has great ensemble value. It also forms part of the protected townscape of Assen.