Villa Gelria

English translation

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Description

Description The monumental villa is erected on a rectangular plan in its principal form and comprises two storeys under hipped roofs (corner risalits, covered with zinc lozenges and a gabled roof (central risalit), covered with zinc lozenges. The facades are terminated by a broad cornice with stucco ornamental panels between terracotta consoles, which carry a continuous moulded gutter. Zinc pylons stand on the roof ridges. The building is strictly symmetrical in design and consists of a central risalit and two corner risalits placed at right angles to it. The ground floor is plastered and provided with ashlar lines. Above this the facades are built in reddish-brown brick. The corners of the facades are provided with stucco corner blocks. The corner risalits have semi-circular projecting oriels on the front with three closed, curved windows. Above these are balconies with wrought-iron railings. All windows have sandstone lintels. The recessed central risalit contains across its full width a portico with a pleasant wooden veranda with curved wooden latticework and four wooden columns. Three French doors lead to the portico with sandstone steps of five treads. On the storey above is a balcony across the full width with elegant wrought-iron railings between wooden balusters. The storey windows in this part of the facade are closed with segmental arches and are provided with moulded stucco trim. The central risalit with French balcony doors is stuccoed and provided with ashlar lines and is crowned by a curved wooden moulding. The tops are crowned by three wooden acroteriums. The corner risalits on the storey contain French balcony doors in the form of a round arch with moulded stucco trim with keystone and a rectangular frame with an architrave on consoles. The spandrels are decorated with foliate ornament. The entrance under a rectangular, semi-open portico is situated in the eastern side facade where a drive with green beeches leads to it. The basement is of sandstone; above this the walls consist of glass with a rectangular cast-iron glazing bars. The portico has an overhanging decorative zinc moulding. The side facades on the storey are provided with a stuccoed central risalit with two closed windows with architrave of which one is blind. On either side of this is a round-arched window with stucco surround and architrave. On the southern side facade a pleasant five-sided conservatory of wood and glass has been added, articulated by wooden pilasters on a sandstone basement. The fanlights have cast-iron glazing bars with a circular motif. The central risalit of the rear facade contains three-part windows with on the storey a balcony with cast-iron railings. Internally still of note the hall, passage with ornamental stucco ceilings and wooden staircase with cast-iron balusters in the railings. Appraisal VILLA GELRIA WITH ATTACHED COACHHOUSE AND GARDENER'S COTTAGE, located freely in a park-like garden and mature trees, designed in a very richly decorated eclectic architectural style with influences from the Palladian style - typical of architecture from the second half of the nineteenth century - commissioned by the well-known Groningen industrialist and potato starch manufacturer W.A. Scholten, of general importance for the architectural and aesthetic qualities of the design and from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical viewpoint as a well-preserved component of the extraordinarily characteristic series of country houses and villas in park-like surroundings on the Verlengde Hereweg in Groningen.