Bosch en Vaart

English translation

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Description

MANSION Bosch en Vaart built in 1881 in a combination of Eclecticism and Chalet style. The house is situated in a garden laid out in landscape style and is oriented towards the Noord Willemskanaal.

Description

Mansion based on a rectangular ground plan and constructed in rendered brick comprising two storeys and covered by a gabled roof with plain roof tiles; chimneys with caps; cornice with cassette boarding resting on wooden consoles; in the gable ends wooden boarding with carved work; on the corners remnants of zinc acroteria.

Symmetrical facade divisions including a wide plinth, pilaster forms with block-shaped rustication, simple cornice; original window arrangement. North facade: windows in projecting section with surround; first-floor window with segmental arched pediment with hood; attic window with style and diamond-shaped fanlight. East facade: projecting section with a balcony resting on heavily tapered wooden columns; balustrade with carved work; portico with arched niches in the side walls; double panel door with lozenge pattern and provided with cast-iron ornamental grilles; french windows in surround with segmental pediment with hood. South facade: in main form comparable to the north facade but provided with a veranda with above it a loggia under a sloping roof provided with fine carved work in the balustrade, in the accolade-shaped gable fields and in the ornamental mouldings at the loggia; the loggia is supported by cast-iron columns (slender type with a planter incorporated in the basement; the consoles are executed in filigree cast iron). West facade: in main form comparable to the east facade but provided with flat extension with loggias under sloping roof; balustrade with fine carved work; glazing with diamond-shaped glazing bars; double panel doors with lozenge pattern; in the fanlight a lantern (originating from a burned-out building of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen at the Broerplein) with cast-iron carved work.

Valuation.

The mansion Bosch en Vaart is of cultural-historical importance as the main element of the complex of the same name, moreover it is of architectural-historical importance because of the design, the design, the integrity and recognisability and of urban-planning importance in relation to the other components of the complex.