Woonhuis, Torenlaan 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Fairly austere early twentieth century RESIDENTIAL HOUSE in an architectural style that can best be described as "transitional style". The mansion built in 1903 possesses certain specific neo-renaissance characteristics, which are combined with details that are typical of art nouveau. The application of two styles in such a design is characteristic of much early twentieth century residential architecture. At the time of a renovation in 1913 the building was in use as an office for Van Gend en Loos. The house stands on a lane laid out in 1808 with buildings that were predominantly realized in the decades around 1900. Description

The house, drawn up from a rectangular floor plan, has one storey under a hipped roof/saddle roof covered with curved tiles and with a cut-off apex. The three-bay-wide building has an asymmetrical front facade with plastered plinth, arched window openings and facade accents of decorative brickwork and plasterwork. The two-axis right facade section has a symmetrical arrangement with identical windows beneath cock combs of red decorative brickwork with plastered closing and setting stones. The storey is marked by a broad cornice with profiled edge. The facade has a gable top with a frieze of coloured brickwork between the corbels of the roof junction, of which the right one, like the right shoulder, is cut off by the facade of the adjacent building. The gable top is provided with a coping and a spout-gable crown with volutes, pediment and date indication. The composite attic window stands beneath a decorative brickwork segmental arch with closing and setting stones. The entrance is located in the slightly recessed left bay. The casement door within has art nouveau ironwork and a turnpike needle beneath an ornamental calves' head and arched fanlight. Between the entrance and the window on the storey runs a frieze of decorative brickwork chevron arches, a frieze form which in combination with a boldly projecting brick edge on which the profiled gutter sits, also terminates the entrance bay. The left side facade has among other features two cast-iron ventilation grilles and a facade termination in the form of a dentil moulding. The facade is provided on the left rear with a diagonal door with fanlight beneath a squinch. The rear facade is a cut-off pointed gable, provided with T-windows beneath stretches. Assessment

The well-preserved building is of architectural-historical value because of its specific late nineteenth century design. It is a visually distinctive component of the valuable late nineteenth and early twentieth century buildings on the Torenstraat, belonging to the protected townscape of Assen, which means that in particular the ensemble value of the building is considerable.