Woonhuis, Stationsstraat 11

English translation

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Description

Introduction

One of the largest buildings constructed as a DWELLING HOUSE in Assen is the house built in the years 1873-1875, on commission of the retired captain at sea G. F. Servatius, which was known as Huize Ebbenerve. The house, enlivened with art nouveau details and erected in eclectic style, probably originally consisted of only a single storey. The current appearance of the house is the result of a major renovation carried out in 1906-1907 according to a design by architect J. Smallenbroek for the then owner of the house, the advocate-attorney Jhr. mr. H.G. van Holthe tot Echten. Behind the house originally lay a large garden with a pond, probably laid out according to a design by the well-known garden architect L.P. Roodbaard. However, little of this remains. In the years 1918-1945 the house was occupied by notary Warmold L. Tonckels. From 1946 onwards it has been used by the Stichting Opbouw Drenthe. The protection relates to the exterior of the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century main form, the boundary wall and a single interior component.

Description

The house was originally erected from a rectangular floor plan. It has rendered facades with false joints on the first storey and the avant-corps, a grey plinth, corner pilasters and a storey under a hipped roof covered with plastic tiles and wooden frost combs. The symmetrical front facade with a high projecting central section is dominated by a broad avant-corps with sloping sides. All facade openings on the ground floor are arched under a cornice and provided with shutters and continuous sill stone. In the middle of the projecting central section stands a porte brisée under a balcony resting on consoles with wrought-iron art nouveau railing. The porte brisée leading onto the balcony and the windows on either side of it are flush and similarly hung with shutters. The projection is concluded by a round-arch frieze and a moulded drip moulding around a concavely vaulted, zinc-covered truncated mansard roof with moulding and wrought-iron art nouveau railing around the flat. The flush first-storey windows are a coupled two-light and provided with a fanlight surround with cornice and fluted pilasters on the narrow piers. These facade parts are concluded by an entablature with a frieze of glazed tiles with art nouveau decoration and a drip moulding on corbels. The front roof slopes are provided with original wooden roof dormers, clad and covered with zinc imitation shingles and provided with a spire topped with a pineapple. The central section is crowned by a large roof dormer constructed from rendered brick with false joints with attic balustrade on either side, moulded cornices on corbels, glazed tile friezes on either side of the front of the three round-arch windows with moulding and a copper dome roof covered with shingled zinc plates. On top of this stands an octagonal lantern with open round arches, a pineapple-topped crown and weathervane on an equally zinc-covered dome roof. The left side facade contains the main entrance, which consists of a stone doorstep and a panelled door with cast-iron window frames under worked egg-and-dart moulding and an arched fanlight in an arched porch. The porch surround is provided with fluted pilasters. Above the entrance is a balcony resting on wooden consoles with moulded base plate and art nouveau railing. A flush porte brisée leads onto the balcony, identical to the one in the front facade. The porte brisée has a fanlight surround and shutters like the window to its left. The ground-floor window below is broad and has a fanlight surround with cornice. The building sections under flat roof at the rear of the building were added after 1945. The original rear facade has arched windows on the first storey and a large round-arch staircase light with a stained-glass window pane from the studio of the Hague glazier J.W. Gips. On this coat of arms with shield-bearing lions (with the coats of arms of the families Van Holthe tot Echten and Van der Feltz?) stands the text "Deus Vincenti dat Coronam". Against the right side facade stands a wooden conservatory with uprights with worked corbels under a moulded roof line and arched transoms above moulded capitals. The first storey here is provided with a flush window hung with shutters with fanlight surround and an arched window without surround. The roof dormers with flat roof on this side were added later. Parts of the INTERIOR remain in original, 19th-century and early 20th-century condition despite various alterations and modernizations. In particular the stained glass and the stair railings with the heavy newel posts are worthy of mention. On the street side there is still the original, early 20th-century boundary RAILING of wrought and cast iron.

Valuation

The very characteristic building is of architectural-historical value as a fine and intact example of a successful merger of nineteenth-century and early 20th-century building elements. The prominent house is one of many 'palaces' that were built in the last quarter of the nineteenth century for Assen notables and remain of great importance to the appearance of the old Assen city centre. The building therefore has, besides architectural-historical value, considerable ensemble value. It is also part of the protected townscape of Assen.