Woonhuis, Radesingel 17

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, forming part of an ensemble of four adjoining townhouses, situated in the closed, late nineteenth-century built-up southern facade wall of the Radesingel, built in 1899-1900 on commission of the Groningen contractor/architect P. Belgraver in an eclectic architectural style. The forecourt is bordered by wrought-iron railings from the construction period. The building is currently in use as a residential house. Description The building is erected on a rectangular plan and comprises three storeys under a hipped roof, covered with black Frisian curved tiles. The front roof hood contains in the middle a brick chimney hood with bent wooden roof edge. The facade is finished at the top by a brick frieze, on which consoles are placed that carry a moulded brick gutter. The front facade is three window bays wide and is built up from reddish-brown brick. The building has a low ground floor, which is finished by a moulded cordon string. The windows on the ground floor are straight-headed and have segmental arch relieving arches with stucco keystones with diamond heads and voussoirs. The building contains on the piano nobile straight-headed windows, which are crowned by herringbone arch-shaped, moulded stucco mouldings and on the upper storey windows with herringbone arches and keystones. On the rear facade there is a wide, rectangular wooden conservatory, which rests on pillars. The storey above contains three straight-headed windows with raised segmental arches and arch rings with coloured tile filling. The forecourt is bordered on the street side by wrought-iron railings from the construction period. Internally the original structure, layout and decoration have been well preserved. Of importance include the basement with tiled chimney breast in the former kitchen, corridor door on the rear side with coloured glass, the wooden staircase, wooden panelled doors and the richly ornamented stucco ceilings in the enfilade rooms on the piano nobile with sliding doors and black marble chimney breasts. Evaluation TOWNHOUSE, forming part of a symmetrically arranged ensemble of four townhouses, built in 1899-1900 in an eclectic architectural style designed by the Groningen contractor/architect P. Belgraver, characteristic of the architecture from the end of the nineteenth century, of general importance from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical perspective as an intact component of the high-quality urban planning structure of the ring canal row along the south side of the inner city of Groningen.