Woonhuis, Torenlaan 3

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The double DWELLING HOUSE was built c. 1905 in a building style related to art nouveau. The property has a striking front facade which, through a successful combination of mostly plastered facade sections with a specific early twentieth-century design, contrasts with the other properties on the Torenlaan, laid out in 1808. Description

The property is erected from a ground plan that is rectangular in main lines and has a basement and an upper storey covered with boulet tiles and corrugated Frisian tiles (rear roof slope) covered truncated hipped roof. The asymmetrical, mostly plastered, cream-coloured front facade is provided with accents in red facing brick and green glazed brick. The lower structure is provided with false joints and a grey plinth with right-angled basement windows. The storey above has, entirely on the left, a round-arched porch opening placed above a hardstone step with, in the porch, two original, ornamental doors under a right-angled fanlight. The porch walls are partly clad with tiles that are provided with the same decorations, applied by means of stencils, as in the porches of the property Brink 36;37. The round-arched window to the right of the entrance stands in a spandrel with round-arched surround of glazed brick, which together with the porch opening forms a large round-arched bifora. The two windows to the right in the facade are identical and have an arched three-pane fanlight with spandrel and penant of glazed brick. On the upper storey, above the round arches stands a wooden oriel with a decorative knop console as the base of the vaulted lower structure, a low breastwork with decorated panels and upper edge and right-angled multi-pane fanlights. The left facade section has an abridged pointed gable placed in front of a transverse saddle roof with drip moulding. The facade has a surround of exposed facing brick and glazed brick, which in the gable apex forms a trefoil. Within this stands a right-angled window under a round arch with mosaic in the arch soffit. The base of the gable apex is formed by corbels with whip-lash decorations. To the right of the oriel stands a broad arched window. This right facade section is terminated by a moulded gutter cornice on corbels. In the roof slope above this is a wooden small dormer with wing pieces and projecting half-hipped roof with trefoil-shaped wind vane. The right side facade is erected in fair-faced brick and is provided with windows under stretchers. In the roof slope on this side stand two narrow chimney stacks. Against the rear facade is placed a wooden conservatory dating from the period of construction with segment-arched fanlights and flat with moulded cornice on corbels onto which a porte brisée opens. The lower extension has a saddle/hipped roof covered with corrugated Frisian tiles with built-up chimney stack. Against the rear of this stands a narrow and shallow, built-out addition with ahs rotating cast-iron grill window as in the gable apex. The left side facade borders (with some clearance) the right side facade of the property Brink 1. Valuation

The property is a fine and well-preserved example of early twentieth-century residential architecture and is therefore of architectural-historical value. It also has great ensemble value as a distinctive and characteristic component of the valuable late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century buildings on the Torenlaan, which forms part of the protected townscape.