Woonhuis, Gedempte Zuiderdiep 40

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, situated in the closed southern facade wall of the Gedempte Zuiderdiep consisting of differentiated building, built around 1885 in an eclectic architectural style. Around 1914 the glazed conservatory was added with a stained-glass roof on the commission of grain merchant J.W. van der Meer. In 1928 the building was heightened by one storey. The basement is bordered with a wrought-iron fence. The front part is fitted out as a practice and internally adapted accordingly. The building is currently in use as a residential house with a practice. Description The building is constructed on a square ground plan and consists of a basement storey with two storeys and a mezzanine storey under a hipped roof, covered with slates in Maasverband pattern. The facade is finished above and partially between the mezzanine windows by a stucco moulding and a profiled gutter on five worked consoles. The front facade is four window bays wide and constructed from reddish-brown brick. The basement storey is stuccoed and provided with facets and bordered with a wrought-iron fence. On the east side is a porch with a six-step granite stoop with wrought-iron railings. The porch has a profiled stucco surround and a two-part hanging fanlight. The wooden front door is ornamented with carved work in Art Nouveau style. The windows have segmental arches with stucco keystones and granite window sills. Below the storey windows stucco overhangs are fitted. The rear facade is entirely plastered and provided with false joints. On the ground floor is a rectangular conservatory. On the first storey are segmental arch windows and on the second storey four rectangular T-windows. Internally of importance the wooden staircase with richly carved wooden balusters, tiled W.C. with coloured stained-glass window in Art Nouveau style and the conservatory behind the living room with carved wooden panelling and curved glazed roof with stained glass. Valuation TOWNHOUSE, with a representative character and constructed in a late nineteenth-century eclectic architectural style, of general significance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the architectural quality of the exterior. Moreover, the building forms an architecturally valuable element in the southern facade wall of the Gedempte Zuiderdiep in Groningen of which the original residential character has been well preserved.