Woonhuis, Brink 36

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The DWELLING HOUSE built around 1905 displays the typical characteristics of so-called transitional architecture, a building style that on the whole still refers to the neo-renaissance combined with characteristic Art Nouveau detailing. The town house stands in a street whose appearance is largely determined by dwellings built around the turn of the century for the wealthy bourgeoisie and prosperous middle class. Description

The house, drawn up from a rectangular floor plan, has a basement and one storey beneath a hipped roof covered with curly tiles. The building has a five-bay-wide symmetrical front facade of brick and orange facing brick, enlivened by white accents. The facade has a rusticised plinth with false joints and slightly arched basement windows with window guards. The entrance with stoop is located in a middle bay framed with facing brick and has an original panelled door with pivot pin, wrought-iron Art Nouveau window ironwork, carved work and a pediment under a worked calf and flush fanlight. The door stands in a porch with stone steps, segmental-arched entrance and tile tableaux composed of tiles with decoration applied by means of stencils. Above the porch is a balcony supported on curved corbels with wrought-iron railings between carved corner balusters. A porte brisée with fanlight under a semicircular arch with springer and voussoir stones and a brick mosaic in the arch ring opens onto the balcony. On either side of the entrance bay there are per storey two windows in facade fields of dark brick within an orange facing brick frame. The flush windows with sash frames stand under facing-brick rooster combs with springer and voussoir stones and horizontal elliptical-arched arch rings with brick mosaics. The facade cornice is terminated by segmental-arched friezes under a drip moulding supported on carved blocks. In the front roof slope above the middle bay stands a built-in dormer under a gabled roof. It has a small spout gable equipped with profiled stone edging strips and volutes at the spout. The two windows in the dormer are flush under semicircular arches with brick mosaics in the arch rings and a spanning arch. To the left of the facade is a recessed bay with a second entrance. The entrance arrangement consists of a panelled door and a tile tableau as in the front facade, in a less deep porch. The stone stoop is fitted with a wrought-iron balustrade. The plastered right side facade is equipped with false joints and has two windows on the main floor and three on the upper storey as in the front facade. The facade is terminated here by an entablature. Against the likewise plastered rear facade stand two wooden conservatories, one of which (probably the left one) was added in 1923. The left conservatory has a flat roof with wooden balustrade and rests on square columns, leaving the space for the basement open. The right conservatory stands on a base of plastered columns with infill of fair-faced brick. The various windows in the rear facade are all flush. The left side facade is likewise plastered and equipped with false joints, slightly arched basement windows with window guards and two windows on the upper storey. Above the drip moulding it has a facing-brick dormer as in the front facade. Valuation

The house is of architectural-historical importance because of its well-preserved front facade, characteristic of its building period, and certain special details within it. The prominent building also has ensemble value as an important and representative component of the valuable built environment in this part of the protected townscape of Assen.