Woonhuis, Gedempte Zuiderdiep 45

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, situated in the closed northern facade wall of the Gedempte Zuiderdiep, consisting of differentiated development, built around 1880 in an eclectic architectural style. The building has been combined with no. 45 since 1949 and is currently in use as office and business space. Description The building is erected on a rectangular floor plan and consists of a basement with two storeys under a truncated gabled roof, clad with roofing felt. The window bay is crowned by a rendered deck structure with tympanum, stuccoed cheeks and scrollwork. In the front roof pediment next to it is a small zinc oeil de boeuf. The front facade is built up of reddish-brown brick and enlivened with stucco speck courses. The sunken basement is bordered by elegantly worked wrought-iron railings and handrail leading to a monumental entrance staircase of six stone steps. The facade has an asymmetrical layout: a quarter-brick projecting entrance bay and a wide window bay. The worked wooden front door is placed in a deep porch. The relieving arch and the round fanlight of the porch are provided with stucco moulding work in the form of an aedicula. On the bel étage there is a three-part wide window under a basket arch with a stucco keystones in the form of a cherub head with palmette. A similar window is located above on the first floor and above the porch is a round-arched window. All fanlights of the windows are filled with coloured leaded glass. On the window sills stucco rows of diamond heads and flattened facets are applied. The storeys are finished with heavily moulded moulding work. The facade is terminated by a moulded cornice, which carries a moulded roof gutter. Internally, the original structure, layout and finish have been partly preserved. Of importance are among others the hallway with rich stucco ornamentation in the form of round-arched moulded moulding with keystones, stucco ceiling and stucco ornaments depicting carpenter's tools, the wooden staircase with richly worked end balusters and grape clusters, the bel étage with ornamented stucco ceiling, wooden panelled door, worked wooden sash doors, black marble fireplace and the front room on the first floor with stucco ceiling and black marble fireplace with mirror and moulded stucco surround and the coloured leaded glass in the fanlights of the windows. Valuation TOWNHOUSE, with a representative character and erected in a richly decorated, eclectic architectural style, characteristic of architecture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the exceptional quality of the asymmetrical facade composition and because of the relationship between exterior and interior (components). Furthermore, the building forms an architecturally valuable element in the northern facade wall of the Gedempte Zuiderdiep, of which the original residential character has been well preserved.