Woonhuis, Verlengde Hereweg 144

English translation

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Description

Introduction DOUBLE VILLA, detached situated on the corner of the Verlengde Hereweg and the Goeman Borgesiuslaan, forming part of a series of double and detached villas largely with thatched roofs on the Verlengde Hereweg and the Goeman Borgesiuslaan, built in 1925 after a design by Groningen architect M.G. Eelkema in Interbellum style. The double villa is still in use as a residential house; the southern half (no. 146) has been partly internally adapted and was extended at the rear in the nineteen seventies. No. 144 still possesses an original interior. The original, wrought-iron fencing which ran from the Goeman Borgesiuslaan past the neighbouring villas on the Verlengde Hereweg has been replaced by a modern fence. Description The striking building is erected on a butterfly-shaped floor plan and has two storeys under a high rising hipped roof sloping in various directions with substantial overhang, covered with thatch. The ridge is covered with a double row of red Frisian roof tiles. The entrance section of the symmetrically designed building faces north-west in the line of sight of the intersection of the Goeman Borgesiuslaan and the Verlengde Hereweg. Below a broad built-in balcony with parapet in decorative brickwork with a geometric pattern is the double entrance section. The diagonally placed living rooms have three-part wooden bay windows with rendered parapets, which continue over the first floor. The side and rear facades consist of various wall sections placed at different angles to each other; the facades are furnished with various windows. On the ground floor a garden door to a semi-circular terrace, partly furnished with pergola and masonry. The southern building section has at this location a conservatory-like extension. The rear facade is furnished with a wooden gable cladding. On the first floor is a balcony with a rendered parapet, which extends across the extended first storey. The front roof slope is furnished with a roof dormer with a sloping roof; the roof slopes of the diagonally placed roofs have a small semicircular roof dormer. Due to the special butterfly floor plan, the building storeys deviating from each other and the substantial hipped roof oriented in various directions, the building has a rare and expressive formal language. In the part Verlengde Hereweg 144 the original layout largely remains internally. Of importance are among other things the white marble hall with draft door, the wooden panel doors with diamond-shaped glass panes, which are decorated with painted landscape scenes and animal motifs. Assessment Double villa, erected in a rare and expressive variant of the Interbellum style characteristic of villa architecture from the nineteen twenties, after a design by Groningen architect M.G. Eelkema, of general importance from a cultural-historical and architectural-historical point of view as an intact component of the exceptionally characteristic series of country houses and villas in park-like surroundings on the Verlengde Hereweg in Groningen. Moreover, the building is remarkable because of its special location on the sharp corner of the Goeman Borgesiuslaan and the Verlengde Hereweg, which has decisively determined the layout and design.