Oakland

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The RESIDENTIAL HOUSE built in eclectic style was built in 1878 by order of dr. E.P.J.W. Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, whose name and the building year of the property are mentioned in the rear gable. The villa oriented at the intersection, standing detached, is known as 'Oakland' and is one of the nineteenth century houses in the "palace quarter" that were built for the well-to-do bourgeoisie. Of the original garden at the house both the nineteenth century main structure and various elements are still present.

Description.

The property is constructed from a rectangular ground plan and has plastered facades with false joints and one storey covered with flat Frisian tiles, truncated hipped roof with plastered chimney shafts on three of the four ridge ends and non-original, discordant roof dormers. The facades are provided with plinths, corner mouldings, facade openings (T-windows) with rounded upper corners within hood-crowned profile mouldings, in which human figures in high relief are incorporated. The facades are terminated by a broken, profiled cornice. The front facade has three broad bays with in the middle a risalit with two-light window on the ground floor and on the upper storey a double porte brisée, opening onto a balcony supported by consoles with the original wrought-iron railing. The symmetrical left side gable is likewise three-axed and provided with a panel-wing door with fanlight and windows within a frame with hood as in the front facade. The five-axed rear facade is likewise symmetrical with on the ground floor three garden portes brisées, which like the windows in this facade are not framed. Against the rear gable stands a trapezoidal extension with flat roof, various straight-enclosed facade openings and three round facade openings, of which two blind and one with cast-iron grille window in the rear facade. This extension runs around the corner to the right side gable, in which windows as in the front and the right side gable and likewise a framed porte brisée with fanlight. The upper storey porte brisée is hung with venetian blinds and opens onto the extension. In the garden, still largely in its original condition, stand amongst others a cultivated sweet chestnut tree, weeping beech, linden, box hedges and conifers, as well as an apple orchard from the building period of the house.

Valuation

The characteristic house has architectural-historical value as a good and fairly intact example of late nineteenth century eclectic residential architecture with associated garden for the well-to-do bourgeoisie. As an image-determining property in a part of the protected townscape with much representative late nineteenth century and early twentieth century building, the ensemble value in particular is considerable. The house also forms part of the protected townscape.