Hilghestede

English translation

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Description

Introduction VILLA, named Hilghestede, situated in a park-like garden, partly enclosed by a moat with valuable old trees, freestanding situated on the east side of the predominantly villas and country houses building on both sides of the Verlengde Hereweg, built in 1895 in an eclectic architectural style. The villa is situated on a historical spot; in the Middle Ages Hilghestede ('holy place') was a place of pilgrimage. The driveway to the villa is closed off by an access gate between two cast-iron balusters with pinecones. In 1925 an extension was added to the north side gable with an external stair and stair access to the upper floor, which is of secondary importance for the protection. The basement windows have been renewed. Despite these alterations, the building has retained its very monumental character. Since 1983 the building has been in use as an office with a flat above. Description The villa is constructed on a square ground plan in main form and consists of a basement and two storeys under a truncated hipped roof, covered with black glazed Dutch tiles. The facades are finished with a wooden cornice and a profiled rain gutter. In the front roof section five non-original wooden roof dormers from 1933. The front facade is five bays wide and is constructed of red brick. The central risalit is framed by brick pilasters with courses of yellow brick. The corners are provided on the ground floor with imitation-rustica blocks in stucco with bossing; on the upper floor pilasters with mirrors and foliage. In the central risalit a portico with a worked, double wooden panelled door with semicircular fanlight and stone step. On either side of the portico two round-arched niches. Above the entrance on the upper floor is a round-arched window with three-lobed tracery (cast-iron?) and a profiled stucco frame with hood moulding. On the parapet the name Hilghestede is painted. The remaining windows are straight-headed; the T-windows on the upper floor have profiled stucco pilasters and segmental arches with profiled stucco moulding and keystones; shell motifs in stucco in the arch soffits. The parapets are decorated with stucco foliage. Over the full width of the front facade a nice wooden veranda with lean-to roof, resting on six cast-iron columns with vase-shaped terminations and railwork, between which cast-iron uprights. The south facade three bays wide has a three-sided projecting central risalit with on the upper floor a balcony on worked consoles. In the eastern part of this facade coupled round-arched windows with profiled stucco frame and keystones. The rear facade has a three-sided projecting central risalit. Valuation Villa, constructed in a typically late-nineteenth century eclectic architectural style, of general importance from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical point of view as an intact component of the extraordinarily characteristic series of country houses and villas in park-like surroundings on the Verlengde Hereweg in Groningen.