Woonhuis, Gymnasiumstraat 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The detached residential house, created around 1875 in sober balanced brickwork, is one of the simpler buildings in the area popularly known as the "palaces district" and forms part of the protected townscape. The garden is bounded at the front by a simple second-half 19th-century railing. The protection does not extend to the single-storey extension and addition on Gymnasiumstraat.

Description.

The corner building, erected from a rectangular floor plan in fair-faced brick, has an upper floor under a hipped roof covered with flat Frisian tiles and a truncated hipped roof with chimney stacks at the roof corners and a wooden roof dormer with cornice, pediment and zinc-covered cheeks. The fairly soberly designed building is provided with a rendered plinth, pilasters, arched windows and an entablature with profiled gutter moulding. The facade on the Gymnasiumstraat side has an asymmetrical layout and is provided with a step with a panelled double door set in a shallow portico with cast-iron frame ironwork and arched fanlight with cast-iron tree-of-life. The bay to the right of the pilaster appears to stand outside the main form of the building and has a truncated hipped roof. The southern facade (Nassaulaan) is dominated by a terrace of rubble brick with a wooden veranda with scalloped edges at the sloping roof. The windows in the predominantly glass-filled side walls have diagonal glazing bars. Two arched portes brisées emerge on to the terrace, which, like the arched windows on the upper floor, still have the original frames with rounded corners. The rear facade (west side) is provided with windows furnished with Venetian blinds and a cast-iron roosting window per storey. In the right side facade (north facade) stand arched windows with still the original frames with rounded corners. The oldest part of a single-storey extension against this facade of the main form under a hipped roof covered with flat Frisian tiles no longer has the original facade layout. The garden, for the most part still provided with the original planting, has a boundary in the form of railings of wrought and cast iron between fluted cast-iron columns on plinths of natural stone. The garden railings stand between heavy cast-iron railing posts.

Valuation

The simple, but characteristic building (with railing) is a reasonably well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century residential house architecture. It has particular ensemble value and stands in a part of the protected townscape in which much valuable late 19th and early 20th-century residential house architecture is concentrated.