Woonhuis, Kerkstraat 20

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The property Kerkstraat 20-24 was originally built as a double upper dwelling annex "warehouse for glass, earthenware and luxury articles", a function still noted in the original lettering in the lintel above the shopfront. The SHOP/DWELLING HOUSE built in 1905 in Transition style (for client S.) was designed by architect M. de Vries, whose name as well as the construction year is noted in a glazed facade tablet.

Description.

The property has three storeys under a flat roof, of which the ground floor housed a shop and the two upper floors dwellings. The asymmetrical front facade with offset gable fields is built of red facing brick. The partly still original shopfront has in the two outer of the three recessed entrance sections the original, finely worked Art Nouveau doors with cut glass above sandstone thresholds and pillars. The shopfront is provided below the right shop window and in the left pendant with the original, moulded black-painted plinth and has below the wide glazed list with drip moulding also the original lintel in the form of a shopfront beam decorated with metal flowers. The fanlights that originally existed here have been completely removed behind clashing boards, which cause a visual break between the shopfront and the rest of the facade. To the left of the left entrance is a passage doorway. The first floor has an irregular gable layout with windows under segmental arches with simple brick mosaics in the arch rings, glazing bars in the upper panes and continuous, glazed sills and drip mouldings with continuous stone lintels. The windows are from left to right: a broad composite window, two narrow windows with narrow brick pendant under spanning arch and a hanging wooden oriel containing fanlights with a frieze of horseshoe arches referring to Art Nouveau and a high, boarded upper edge with cornice. To the right of this a composite window with a broad central pane between two lower, narrow side panes and glazing bars in the upper panes under segmental arch. Next to this stands a glazed tile tableau with an image of Mercury, whiplash motifs, construction year and the name of the architect. Above the window in the right bay is a blind round-arch bifora with a filling of diamond motifs. The windows are located between corbels of Bentheim sandstone, which are the start of tiled fields, between which are the upper panes of the first floor and the windows of the second floor. The window openings on the second floor are also provided with glazed sills with stone lintels and small segmental arches with brick mosaics in the arch rings. The corner and corbel stones are also of Bentheim sandstone, a stone type that was also used for the edge cornices on the edges of the irregular gable termination. The slightly higher right gable section runs to the right towards a lower bay, which is terminated by a cornice under a half, half-hipped roof covered with glazed Lucas IJsbrand tiles. The bay to the left of the oriel is terminated by a spout with moulded cornice. The left gable corner has a crown of Bentheim sandstone. The left side facade and rear facade are built of ordinary machine brick and are of subordinate importance.

Valuation

The fairly well-preserved property is a characteristic element of a closed street frontage in the city centre, whereby it also has ensemble value. The facade is very characteristic due to the stone type used and the detailing, which together with various stylistic features are representative of early twentieth-century shop/dwelling-house architecture. The property is also part of the protected urban townscape.