Woonhuis, Dr. Nassaulaan 16

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The detached RESIDENTIAL HOUSE, built around the turn of the century, is an example of the transitional architecture of around the turn of the century. The house is one of many nineteenth and early twentieth century properties built for the well-to-do bourgeoisie in the "palaces neighbourhood".

Description.

The residential house, built in brick with a bond course, has a storey beneath a hipped roof covered with glazed tiles, truncated with a profiled gutter moulding on brackets and iron straps. The asymmetrical front facade is enlivened by glazed brick and has a projection on the left beneath a cross gable with a half-hipped roof. The broad window set in an outlined gable section on the ground floor is arched, provided with glazed sills and a segmental arch with hardstone voussoirs and stained glass upper lights. Directly above it stands a rectangular wooden bay window on brick outlines, likewise filled with stained glass upper lights beneath a sloping roof covered with slate (Maas tiling). Above this stands an opening window with four-pane fanlight in a boarded gable top. The recessed right gable section has on the ground floor a large wooden conservatory standing on a brick base with curved window tracery and a cornice. Two French doors open onto the flat roof with stained glass in the closed upper lights with stained glass panes in the middle. These stand beneath glazed segmental arches with hardstone voussoirs and arch drums with small tiles. The gable is enlivened at the top with glazed brick borders in a geometric pattern. The profiled gutter moulding is supported by brackets. The right side facade is provided with three closed windows with stained glass panes in stained glass-filled upper lights under continuous mouldings and a window with a tiled arch drum beneath a segmental arch with hardstone voussoirs. This is identical to the front windows in the left side facade. To the left of the windows is an extended entrance portico beneath a sloping roof. The entrance has a hardstone step and a simple panelled door beneath a wooden canopy and a segmental-arch three-pane fanlight with stained glass infill. The top of the front of the portico is boarded and the roof junctions on the front and rear sides are provided with a corbel. The rear facade has a large opening under a continuous moulding on the ground floor, which originally was provided with opening garden doors that opened onto a terrace. Behind on the left stands a single-storey extension against the house with a profiled gutter moulding, arched cast iron small windows, a door and a kitchen window placed above a basement window. In the right side facade stand three windows under continuous mouldings and one beneath a segmental arch.

Valuation

The characteristic house has architectural-historical value as a still fairly intact and typical representative of residential house architecture for the well-to-do citizen around the turn of the century. The prominent building is part of the valuable nineteenth and early twentieth century development in the "palaces neighbourhood" which belongs to the protected townscape, which is why its ensemble value is also considerable.