Nijverheid, Hoendiepskade 24 1

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Description

Introduction OIL FACTORY WITH DIRECTOR'S RESIDENCE, partly detached situated on the corner of the Hoendiepskade and the Willem Barentzstraat, built in 1911 on commission of W.J. Roelfsema Pzn. as a steam oil factory with warehouse, offices and an adjoining director's residence designed by the Groningen architect M.G. Eelkema in Transitional Architecture. In the front facade a foundation stone: "PRR 1911". In 1966 the warehouse section was changed into a showroom and three windows on the ground floor were altered. The residence is still in use as a residence and has a well-preserved interior.

Description The business section is constructed on a rectangular plan of reddish-brown brick and comprises three storeys under a flat roof, crowned by a broad wooden gutter with overhang on corbels. The corner is chamfered on the ground floor and on the second storey. On the corners are masonry pilasters with natural stone capping. On the first storey on the corner a semicircular bay window is built out, the base of which rests on two heavy natural stone consoles, in which two recumbent nude male figures are depicted. Above the bay window a loggia with masonry, open balustrade. The front facade is four window bays wide. All windows regularly distributed over the gable surface are closed square with stretchers and natural stone negative blocks and have fanlights with glazing bars. The side facade with storage and dispatch space has on the ground floor a broad wooden canopy which is attached to the facade with iron rods. Below this two original wooden sliding doors over a rail at the height of the tuff base. In the left bay on the upper storeys wooden hoist doors above which a narrow wooden hoist house. The adjoining residence is likewise constructed of reddish-brown brick above a hardstone plinth and comprises two storeys under a composite roof (hipped roof and gabled roof), covered with black-glazed flat Frisian tile. The left bay with the main entrance is built up to a gable with wattle-and-daub and natural stone capping; in the gable a round window. The front door is placed in a portico with natural stone corbel and an edging of natural stone blocks and stained glass side lights and fanlight. Above the portico a curved natural stone tympanum, decorated with a representation of playing children with wreaths in relief. The right bay has a semicircular built-out bay window above which a loggia with round arches and a masonry balustrade. The facade of this bay is closed by a wooden box gutter on corbels. In the roof shield an original wooden roof dormer. In the side facade a large, rectangular stained glass window and on the rear facade a rectangular wooden conservatory with stained glass fanlights. In the well-preserved interior as to layout and appointments are among others important the hall with parquet floor and stairwell with stained glass window and the rooms en suite on the ground floor with finely worked oak panelling, wainscoting and worked sliding doors and ceilings with along the edges a console-like wooden edging with painted ceiling panels.

Valuation Oil factory with director's residence with well-preserved interior, carefully designed in a building style current for the period shortly after the turn of the century, designed by the Groningen architect M.G. Eelkema, of general interest on account of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value, on account of the architectural quality of the design and on account of its significance for the socio-economic history of the city of Groningen.