Woonhuis, Hertenkamp 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The DWELLING HOUSE was built in 1875 in an eclectic style for Mr. C.L. Kniphorst. The design is by architect J. ten Horn, contractor R. Kamminga was responsible for carrying out the works. The detached property, oriented with its rear facade towards the Hertenkamp, is among the first houses built in the "palaces district" after the completion of the Van der Feltz Park and retains an interior that is still largely in nineteenth-century condition. The villa, standing at an angle to the road and largely obscured by vegetation, is a representative example of the predominantly nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential architecture for the well-to-do Asser bourgeoisie.

Description.

The dwelling house, erected on a rectangular ground plan, has one storey beneath a hipped roof covered with glazed flat Frisian tiles. The house is characterized among other things by a low ground storey. The facades are provided with a plaster layer featuring schematic joints up to the broad cornice band. Above this they are constructed in fair-faced brick. The relatively short windows on the ground floor are arched; the upper-storey windows have rounded top corners and a moulded profile with a head moulding. The corners of the property are accentuated by plastered octagonal corner pilasters (ventilation ducts) with egg-and-dart moulding and a crown in the form of an equally octagonal finial with zinc overhang. The facades are terminated by a broken entablature with dentil moulding on the breaks and a projecting moulded gutter line. The ground-floor windows in the symmetrical front facade are hung with venetian blinds. The central bay is plastered and is provided with pilasters with casements on either side of an entrance arrangement above a step. The panel-swing door with fluted key-stone stands beneath a head moulding with egg-and-dart moulding and a fanlight with imitation leaded glass. The balcony above the entrance has a balustrade of cast-iron balusters between narrow wooden corner balusters. The balcony rests on consoles with plastic decorations and lion heads and a French window emerges from it with a fluted key-stone, venetian blinds and a moulded profile with head moulding as around the upper-storey windows. Above the central bay stands a roof dormer with wing pieces, opening herringbone-arch window and pediment with moulded shoulder line. The left side facade is provided with a risalit with moulded profile and a plastered, largely overgrown niche with surround featuring head moulding as around the upper-storey windows. To the right in the facade stands a French window hung with venetian blinds with fluted key-stone and to the left an original conservatory with panes of decorated opaline glass and iron glazing bars. The windows on the upper storey on either side of the niche are as those in the front facade. Above the risalit is a roof dormer of plastered brick, which is provided with casements, trapezoidal windows (which together form a herringbone-arch window) with venetian blinds, moulded pediment with octagonal partial column and a decorated zinc cap as on the ventilation ducts. The symmetrical rear facade (Hertenkamp side) is largely overgrown on the ground floor, where a wooden staircase with landing stands against the facade. The central risalit is plastered and provided with a tall, slightly arched French window with opening windows with a decorative glazing-bar pattern. The risalit is terminated by an entablature with dentil/egg-and-dart moulding above which stands a roof dormer comparable to that above the front facade. The French window in the central risalit opens to a small room with fine stucco reliefs. This space is best compared to an enclosed, tribune-like loggia, which is accessible from inside through large glass doors in the rooms on either side, which can be slid upwards. The connection between the loggia and the landing of the wooden staircase is formed by an internal stone staircase. Against the right (northern) facade, with a rose window on the ground floor, stands an extension with one storey beneath a hipped roof covered with flat Frisian tiles with decorated wind braces. The gable end of the extension is provided with a cast-iron rose window in both storeys. The side facades have a straight termination. One of the side facades is built higher with a flat roof section behind a cornice. The other is provided with cast-iron rose windows, a straight-opening door on the ground floor and above it an equally straight-opening attic/loading door for coal storage. The interior is for an important part still in its original state and has an unusual spatial arrangement with a very low ground floor. The corridor floors are covered with marble tiles and a number of ceilings are decorated with stucco decorations. The two suite rooms on the upper storey are separated from each other by two double sliding doors and are both provided with fireplaces with a marble fireplace mantel and stuccoed corner pilasters on the overmantels.

Assessment

The characteristic property is of architectural-historical value as a fine and well-preserved example of eclectic residential architecture for the well-to-do bourgeoisie. The extraordinary, landmark property has a predominantly original nineteenth-century interior and forms part of the valuable, predominantly nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings in the "palaces district" and therefore also has ensemble value. The house also forms part of the protected townscape of Assen.