Woonhuis, Nassaulaan 6

English translation

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Description

Introduction DOUBLE VILLA WITH FRONT BOUNDARY FENCE, detached and situated on the south side of the Nassaulaan, built in 1928 on behalf of G. Koets according to a design by architect E. Reitsma in the Amsterdam School style. The building forms part of a series of valuable villas on the west side of the Noorderplantsoen. The front garden is separated from the street by a fence of masonry piers with steel tubes. The building is still in use as a double dwelling. The right building part (no. 6 I) has been extended at the rear on the ground floor at a later date and contains a closed-off balcony on the first floor. Description The building is constructed on a rectangular floor plan and comprises two storeys and an attic storey under a steep hipped roof, covered with orange-red Dutch tiles. The parapet of the front facade on the north side is built from purplish-brown brick and the tall, tapering gable top from red handmade brick. The cubic, extended main volume that projects on both sides of the gable top is constructed from purplish-brown brick in geometric bond. The front facade has on the ground floor two large three-part windows, each with a steel eight-pane glazing division and side lights. The windows are separated from each other by a wall pier of purplish-brown brick. The storey above contains an asymmetrical window arrangement, likewise separated by a wall pier placed in relief on the facade plane. Below the horizontal window is a square concrete plate placed at right angles to the facade. The east side facade contains beside the entrance three narrow vertical windows and on the storey above a rectangular wooden structure in which a series of six rectangular windows with nine-pane glazing bars is placed. The cubic-formed west facade has three narrow vertical windows beside the entrance and on the storey above a series of six square windows with nine-pane glazing bars, set in broad frames. Both side facades have on the rear erker-like rectangular extensions of approximately half a metre with on the ground floor a four-part window with side lights. The facade plane above is built with red handmade brick. The roof is interrupted in the left building part by an elongated wooden bay. In the right building part this has been replaced by a wooden extension. A broad chimney of purplish-brown brick on the rear half of the left half marks the roof. The front boundary fence consists of low iron-tube fencing between piers of purplish-brown brick. No. 6 still possesses the original layout. Of no. 6 I there remains the coloured tiling in the hall and a small fireplace with corner cupboard in the kitchen and the wooden staircase. Evaluation DOUBLE VILLA WITH FRONT BOUNDARY FENCE, built in 1928 according to a design by architect E. Reitsma in the Amsterdam School style, of general interest because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the aesthetic and architectural qualities of the design and the architectural integrity of the exterior. Furthermore, the building is significant as an exceptional representative of the Amsterdam School style in Groningen. Together with the neighbouring double villa Nassaulaan 4, the building is one of the pinnacles of the architect's oeuvre.