't Groote Holt

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The villa "t Groote Holt" was built in 1875 in sober eclectic manner. According to tradition, the house once stood in Smilde, was dismantled stone by stone and rebuilt in Assen. The large, detached DWELLING HOUSE, which also once served as a taxation office, is among the older properties in the "palaces district" and dates from the year of the laying out of the Van der Feltz Park (1875). The property, oriented at the intersection, is a representative example of the valuable, predominantly nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential architecture for the well-to-do Asser bourgeoisie in this part of the old town. The twentieth-century property behind the house and the intermediate element fall outside the protection.

Description.

The house, composed of three sections, has cream-coloured plastered facades with schematic joints, plinth, narrow cornice band and one storey beneath two hipped roofs covered with tuiles du nord and Oegstgeester tiles and a hipped roof covered with Dutch tiles. The symmetrical front facade has a three-partite appearance accentuated by means of pilaster strips, with a higher central section with spout gable beneath a hipped roof. This central section, as well as the building sections on either side, have per storey two slightly arched, venetian-blind-hung eight- (ground floor) and six-pane windows (upper storey) within a moulded surround. The central section has a hipped roof and is provided with a broad balcony with wrought-iron railings, onto which two French windows open. The name of the house is inscribed in the casements below the opening round-arch window within a field with climbing round-arch frieze in a gable top which is provided with shoulders and a moulded cornice. The lower building sections on either side have a hipped roof and are terminated by an entablature with projecting, moulded gutter line. The three-bay left side facade is equally symmetrical with windows as in the front facade and an equally framed entrance. This has a panel-swing door with cast-iron frame bars beneath a moulded head moulding and segmental-arch fanlight with curved glazing-bar pattern. In the symmetrically arranged rear facade stand six- and eight-pane windows and a garden French window. The facade is provided in the centre with a small pointed gable with a simple roof dormer with flat roof on either side. The early twentieth-century property in the garden is connected to the house by means of an intermediate element with flat roof. The symmetrical right side facade is comparable to the left. The garden French window here has a fanlight with an infill of radially placed turned balusters within a moulded round arch. The garden is behind a boundary demarcation in the form of fences of wrought and cast iron between fluted, cast-iron balusters. The garden and access gates are fixed to square gate piers of brick.

Assessment

The characteristic property is of architectural-historical value as a fine and well-preserved example of nineteenth-century residential architecture for the well-to-do bourgeoisie. Because the landmark property is situated on a sensitive location in the "palaces district", where much valuable nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential architecture is concentrated, the house has great urban planning and ensemble value. The house also stands in the protected townscape of Assen.