Woonhuis, Heresingel 13

English translation

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Description

Introduction VILLA, situated in a row of detached buildings on the south side of the Heresingel, built in 1894 after a design by the nationally renowned Amsterdam architect A. Salm on behalf of the widow H. Mees-Gockinga in Chalet style. The building has long been in use as an academic institute and has been partly internally adapted for this purpose. Currently the building is in use as offices. Description The building is erected from an irregular plan and comprises two storeys beneath a composite roof, covered with red tiles with red terracotta finials on the ridges. The basement is built of grey facing brick and finished with a drip moulding in a pink Bremer sandstone, on which a parapet is placed in orange-red facing brick with an inset ice-crystal motif in a yellow colour. The facades are entirely white plastered with sill-bands in a yellow facing brick. A number of windows are covered with segmental arches, others are surrounded with richly worked wooden mouldings. In front of the central double entrance door a porch is placed with an open roof truss structure. The glazed side walls contain coloured leaded glass. Above this an oriel placed diagonally is constructed, which is crowned with a spire. In the western part of the main facade a loggia is broken through; on the first storey a wooden balcony with a delicately worked balustrade is located. The roof is composed of a richly varied composition of different roofs with half-hipped ends and overhangs. Internally still of importance the hall with white marble floor, wooden staircase with balusters and the interconnected room on the bel étage with three-sided adjoining conservatory to the south facade with fanlights with purple glass and grey marble chimney-breast with richly worked oak chimney-breast mantel. Valuation Detached villa, of general importance on account of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value on account of the exceptional beauty of the design and the architectural integrity of the exterior. Moreover, the building, by virtue of its varied articulation, the contrasting colour scheme and the finely worked wooden constructions, is a convincing and rare representative of the characteristic Chalet style from around the turn of the century. Furthermore, the building forms a valuable architectural element in the urbanism-related high-quality structure of the row of rampart villas on the south side of the inner city of Groningen.