Woonhuis, Vaart Z.Z. 19

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The early twentieth century DWELLING HOUSE together with OFFICE was built between 1902 and 1905 for grain merchant G.J. de Waard on the site where a farmhouse and a grain mill formerly stood. The building was constructed in a style in which neo-renaissance elements can still be found, but the stylistic innovations of art nouveau are also clearly present. Behind the house stand the grain transhipment facility together with warehouse built in 1897 for Van Leusen and De Waard, and the adjacent warehouse from 1901. The protection is limited to the dwelling house component.

Description. The house is erected on a rectangular ground plan and has above the ground floor, originally functioning as an office, a residential storey under a hipped roof with cut corners covered with flat Frisian tiles. The front façade is made of bright red facing brick with white accents of the same brick type, while the right side and rear façades are built of machine-made brickwork. The asymmetrical façade has a rendered plinth and on the ground floor two round-arched windows. The characteristic art nouveau door here to the left has a round-arched fanlight and stands between two narrow side lights, behind wrought-iron window frames, with high transoms bearing whiplash motifs and arches under relieving arches. The round arches of white facing brick are provided with springer stones and keystone with whiplash decorations and the windows on the undersides have continuous glazed arch-stones with drainage grooves. Above the ground floor windows stands a large wooden oriel, supported on wooden corbels, with worked pendants, likewise worked lower and upper edges and a cornice on small corbels. The pilasters on either side of the oriel are connected above the oriel by an ashlar round-arch frieze. Above the entrance are a pair of windows with three-light upper sash window under coupled segmental arches with linear art nouveau decorations in the keystones and springer stones, as well as continuous arch-stones with drainage grooves. The left gable section has a stringcourse and is terminated by a list composed of an ashlar border and a moulded gutter list carried by corbels. In the roof above stands a wooden dormer with projecting saddle roof. The right gable section is provided with a gable with stone courses, tall rising brackets against the roof springing, a moulded covering list and a cut-off gable top with a wrought-iron railing between "pinnacles" with wrought-iron cresting. The attic window stands under a round arch with a brick mosaic in the arch barrel. The right side façade has on the ground floor seven gable openings with brick mosaics in arch barrels under segmental arches of all openings (six windows and a door) and also linear decorations in the keystones and springer stones of the three front windows. The windows on the storey are straight-headed and placed at irregular intervals and heights from one another. The top of the façade is provided with an ashlar border of facing brick and a moulded gutter list. The rear façade is provided with amongst others opening doors to a non-original intermediate section that connects the house with the grain warehouse.

Valuation

The well-preserved building is of architectural-historical importance as a typical representative of the transitional style of around the turn of the century, built in a brick type that is also characteristic for the building period. The characteristic building also has great ensemble value as a defining component of the valuable late nineteenth century and early twentieth century development on the Vaart, which forms part of the protected townscape.