Woonhuis, Kraneweg 9

English translation

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Description

Introduction DWELLING HOUSE, freestanding situated in the almost closed northern facade line of the Kraneweg, largely consisting of mansions from shortly after the turn of the century, built in 1909 on commission of C. Bijlenga after design by the Groninger architect Y. van der Veen in Transitional architecture with elements of the Art Nouveau style. In 1911 a storey was added to the extension at the rear. The front garden is separated by an elegant wrought-iron fence with Art Nouveau motifs. The building is currently still in use as a dwelling house. Description The building is constructed on a rectangular floor plan and has two storeys under a half-hipped roof, laid with a red Frisian pantile. The front facade is constructed of brownish-pink brick on a hardstone plinth and is enlivened with sill bands of red brick. The window bay on the right has on the ground floor a three-sided oriel window that continues over the first storey and ends in a balcony with wrought-iron fencing between brick pilasters. This bay has a flattened gable with masonry open balustrade in which wooden balcony doors with side windows under a round arch with a roll moulding of red and yellow brick; the arch field is decorated with patterning of coloured brick. The windows with leaded glass fanlights are straight-headed under worked natural stone lintels. On the left are two worked front doors with fanlights and panes of cut glass under segmental arches with roll mouldings of coloured brick; between the doors a fine rectangular tile tableau with an exotic landscape. The left bay is closed off by a wooden gutter on corbels beneath which a herringbone-arch frieze in red brick. The rear facade contains over the full width a wooden conservatory that continues over the first storey. The front garden is separated by an elegant worked wrought-iron fence with Art Nouveau motifs. Internally among others of importance the hall with white-marble wainscoting, plastered walls and a glazed draught door with cut glass, stucco ceilings of the rooms, fireplaces and wooden panel doors and fine coloured leaded glass in the storey windows. Valuation DWELLING HOUSE, constructed in a building style common around the turn of the century with elements of the Art Nouveau style, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value as well as because of the ornamentation and the architectural integrity of the exterior.