Middengasthuis

English translation

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Description

Introduction ALMSHOUSE WITH GATE, named the Midden Gasthuis, situated at a large courtyard on the north side of the Grote Leliestraat, built in 1895 on the commission of the Dutch Reformed Church for "respectable, careful poor artisans and servants" in a craft-traditional building manner. The dwellings were renovated several years ago and are still in use as such.

Description

The almshouse is laid out on a ground plan that is essentially rectangular and is symmetrical in design. The symmetry is somewhat broken by the location of the free-standing, former caretaker's dwelling (no. 55) and because the entrance to the courtyard with adjoining caretaker's residence lies slightly to the east of the axis. On the Grote Leliestraat is the entrance gate, consisting of four brick columns with layers of yellow brick with a coping plate. Between the columns are delicately worked, wrought-iron gates placed. On the east side of the gate is a caretaker's residence situated in the building line of the Grote Leliestraat. This residence comprises one storey under a hipped roof with a brick cabin in the roof projection. The free-standing service dwelling comprises one storey under a truncated hipped roof, tiled with a black, flat Frisian tile. The front facade is five bays wide. The facades of this are enlivened with stucco sill bands and with stuccoed corner blocks. The six-pane windows are closed windows with surrounds and stucco keystones and closing stones. Above the entrance bay in the middle a brick cabin is arranged with brick pilasters and a tympanum interrupted by a pinnacle. The almshouse consists on the long sides and on the south side of adjoined dwellings of one storey under a hipped roof, tiled with a black Frisian corrugated tile. The wing on the north side is heightened in the middle with a storey of five window bays wide. In the middle bay on the first floor a large foundation stone is placed in the blank window with name, founder names and construction year. The dwellings in the corners of the walls are positioned diagonally and set slightly back. The dwellings are erected on rectangular ground plans and are built up from red brick on a mortar bed of brown brick. The facade masonry is enlivened with sill bands of yellow brick. The door and window openings are closed windows and have segmental-arch relieving arches with suggestions of keystones and closing stones in yellow brick. The windows have a six-pane glazing pattern. The facades are finished with a profiled gutter.

Appraisal

ALMSHOUSE WITH GATE, named the Middengasthuis, consisting of a caretaker's and supervisor's dwelling, courtyard dwellings and an entrance gate, built in 1895 in a craft-traditional building manner, characteristic of the architecture from the second half of the nineteenth century, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value as well as because of the architectural integrity of the exterior and layout, and because of its significance for the history of working-class housing in the city of Groningen.