Betsy

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The villa 'Betsy' was built in 1897 in an eclectic neo-renaissance style, designed by architect T. Boonstra. The detached RESIDENCE oriented towards the hertenkamp is one of many valuable 19th and early 20th century properties built for the well-to-do middle classes in the "paleizenbuurt".

Description.

The house has two storeys under a hipped roof covered with tiles. The brick facades are enlivened by brick courses, natural stone and rendered details, a sandstone plinth, a profiled string course and an entablature with an equally profiled gutter moulding on worked corbels. The left facade section of the asymmetrical front facade is three-bay with two windows and an entrance with cornice under cockscomb corbels with closing and setting stones and upper floor windows under pediments with recessed tympana on the ground floor. The windows are also provided with drip mouldings with profiled lower edge from which fluted mutuli with diamond knobs and guttae hang. The entrance section consists of a shallow, straight-jointed portico with sandstone step, sandstone facade plaque (without information), a vaulted ceiling of yellow brick and an original panelled-wing door with cast-iron window frames, curved pediments, lion heads and stop finial with composite capital under a modillion with toothed moulding and straight-jointed fanlight. In front of the risalit to the right of the entrance stands a veranda with a terrace of sandstone with a large floor mosaic. The side walls filled with large glass panes are provided with wooden panels at the lower part and carry a canopy with cranked cornice. On the terrace come two renewed porte brisées which stand on either side of a shallow round-arched recess with profile moulding and pedestal. The canopy roof is covered with zinc plates with imitation shingles, on which a balcony stands with wrought-iron railings between wooden balusters. On the flat comes a broad, straight-jointed opening with equally renewed windows and a porte brisée under the original fanlight which is composed of a frieze of round arches. The whole stands under a curved pediment with profiled border and the name "Betsy" in a cartouche placed in the tympanum of a curved pediment. The built-up roof dormer above is provided with a straight-jointed window under stretch with setting stones, wing pieces with volutes and a cornice, on which a pediment with recessed tympanum stands. In the left side facade are windows as in the front facade and the sandstone plinth is provided with grilles in round openings. Between the windows on the ground floor is a horizontal window with leaded glass within a cartouche. On the rear is a single-storey extension with flat roof. The rear facade is provided with straight-jointed windows with closing and setting stones on the ground floor and windows under segmental arch with closing and setting stones on the upper floor, in which an equally blind segmental arch bifora (with added straight-jointed facade openings) under spanning arch is placed. The rear facade is not provided with a plinth and the corbels are missing from the entablature. The right side facade has a plinth as on the left side facade and the windows are as those in the front facade and the left side facade.

Valuation

The characteristic house is of architectural-historical value owing to its design, the materials used and as an intact example of representative late 19th century residential architecture. The visually dominant property is furthermore a component of the valuable late 19th and early 20th century built environment and thus has great ensemble value. The house is also part of the protected townscape.