Hondsrug

English translation

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Description

Introduction VILLA, type urban half-timbered villa, named Hondsrug, freestanding situated with large gardens on all sides, built in 1907 at the request of a private income gentleman farmer P.A. Doornbos to the design of Groningen architect P.M.A. Huurman in an architectural style typical for the turn of the century in which elements of the half-timbered style and Art Nouveau style are incorporated. The building is currently still in use as a residence. The kitchen and extension to the rear have been renovated. The arrangement of the rear facade on the upper storey has been altered because the attic storey was heightened and extended at a later date. Description The building is constructed on a fundamentally rectangular ground plan and comprises one storey and an attic storey under a composite roof with overhang (hipped roof and gabled roofs), covered with red Tuiles du Nord. In the front roof slope there is a wooden dormer window. This roof slope ends at the top in the form of a triangular window with glazing bars. The building has an asymmetrical layout. The facades are above a threshold of sintered brick plastered white and are beneath the zinc gutters enlivened with a continuous frieze of half-timbered imitation in red brick. The projecting building parts are provided with gable ends with wooden half-timbering and wooden gable cladding. The projecting section of the front facade contains on the ground floor a three-sided bay window with a wooden drip moulding on corbels. The gable end with wooden half-timbering contains a three-part window with glazing bars. In front of the recessed left section of the front facade is a raised and covered terrace with a glazed wall on the south side. All windows are flush or slightly arched with surrounds in red brick and have fanlights with refined glazing bars. The south facade contains a built-out rectangular conservatory with in the centre of this section a broad five-part window under a large round arch. The gable top above contains a two-part, flush window with glazing bars. The entrance is located in the northern side facade in a porch with a stone stair of five treads with a stone balustrade and worked end baluster. The porch has a glazed partition wall with wooden glazing bars. The worked wooden front door has side and fanlights with coloured leaded glass. To the left of the entrance is a foundation stone: 'P.A.D. & K.S.D. 25 May 1907'. Internally, the original structure, layout and decoration of most rooms has been well preserved. Of importance, among others, the very refined painted panelled ceiling in the living room to the north with floral motifs in the original colour scheme in Art Nouveau style and the richly carved oak chimney-piece with pilasters, which are decorated with leaf motifs and the painted overmantel with putti's, cherub head, scrollwork and flower motifs; the ornamented ceilings in the suite of rooms with the very refined painted panelled ceiling in the front room with dragonflies and flower motifs in Art Nouveau style in the original colour scheme and stucco ornaments with leaf and flower motifs in Art Nouveau style; the painted ceiling in the conservatory on the south side with a yellow border of flower motifs and in the centre an elongated stucco ornament with very refined leaf motifs and daisies in Art Nouveau style; the hall with wooden panelled doors and wooden staircase with worked balusters and beautifully coloured leaded glass in the upper and side lights of the front door, in the glazed door to the W.C. and in the double stairwell window on the landing. Valuation VILLA, constructed in an architectural style typical for the architecture around the turn of the century with elements of the half-timbered style and Art Nouveau style to the design of architect P.M.A. Huurman, then working in Groningen, of general importance from an urban design, cultural historical and architectural historical point of view as an undamaged example of the extraordinarily characteristic series of country houses and villas in parklike surroundings on the Verlengde Hereweg in Groningen. Moreover, the building is of importance because of the particular relationship between exterior and interior (components), particularly because of the beautifully painted and stuccoed ceilings in Art Nouveau style.