Cyrano

English translation

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Description

Introduction VILLA with well-preserved interior, situated detached with large garden all around, built in 1905 commissioned by K.F. Wiersum and presumably designed by Groningen architect P.M.A. Huurman, built in an architectural style typical of the turn of the century with elements of the half-timbered style and the Art Nouveau style. The building is currently still in use as a residential house. Description The building is erected on a floor plan that is essentially rectangular in form and comprises two storeys under a hipped roof, clad with shingles. The facades are whitewashed with the exception of the trash window which is constructed of reddish-brown brick. The facades are enlivened by corner blocks of red brick and continuous sill bands of likewise red brick. The windows are predominantly vertically closed with relieving arches of red brick or vertically closed with courses of likewise red brick. The front facade has a risalit with a gable top. On the ground floor a three-sided bay is built out with a balcony with French windows and wooden railings with curved uprights. Next to the risalit is a recessed terrace with French doors and brick walls on either side thereof. Here too on the upper floor a balcony is placed with identically designed wooden railings. The windows on the ground floor have fanlights with coloured stained glass; the upper-floor windows have fanlights with fine glazing bars and yellow glass. The entrance is placed in a porch with a round arch in the north facade and consists of a finely worked wooden panelled door with fanlight. At the rear facade a rectangular conservatory of the time of construction is built out in the centre. The interior still largely retains the original layout and furnishings including on the ground floor the hall with white marble floor and wainscoting, finely worked wooden panelled doors with architraves and wooden staircase; the suite of rooms possesses original stucco ceilings with Art Nouveau motifs. Assessment Villa with remarkably well-preserved interior, erected in an architectural style typical of the turn of the century with elements of the half-timbered style and the Art Nouveau style, of general importance from an urban design, cultural-historical and architectural-historical perspective as an example of the extraordinarily characteristic series of country houses and villas in park-like surroundings on the Verlengde Hereweg in Groningen.