Woonhuis, Heresingel 19

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, consisting of three independent units of use, entirely detached situated on the southwestern corner of the Heresingel and the Verlengde Oosterstraat, built in 1897 on commission of A.G. Groeneveld in a richly decorated, eclectical building style, characteristic of the architecture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, with elements of neo-gothic and neo-Renaissance. Heresingel 19 has been in use as an office since the Second World War and has been internally adapted accordingly. Verlengde Oosterweg 11 is currently in use as a residence and internally, with the exception of the stairwell, adapted. Verlengde Oosterweg 9 is currently still in use as a residence and is still in completely original condition. The front and side yards are bordered by wrought-iron fencing. Description The complex with the appearance of a city villa, consisting of three townhouses, is erected on an irregular, in main form rectangular ground plan. The building consists of a high basement with two storeys under a composite roof (truncated hipped roof and gabled roofs), laid with red Spanish roof-tiles. The risaliting wings are covered with gabled roofs. The facades are built up from reddish-brown brick and enlivened with stucco sill bands. On the ground floor is a compressed storey with originally the service rooms, which functions as a basement for the first storey. The basement is entirely stuccoed, bossed and provided with false joints. In front of the northern main facade on the Heresingel a graceful curved sixteen-step front staircase with balustrades has been applied. The double front door is richly sculptured and provided with a fanlight. All facade openings are straight-headed and covered with elevated segmental arches. The arch barrels are filled with coloured brick ornaments. At the height of the window sills are placed stuccoed sill bands, which on the corners are provided with stuccoed facets. The gable tops of the wings are built up to stepped gables. The stairs are decorated with volutes of cast concrete. The main stepped gable is crowned with a curved tympanum with a wrought-iron weather vane on top. In the top gable is located a paired round-arch window, combined by a large round arch. Between the two stepped gables in the eastern side facade is placed the double entrance in which two double, richly sculptured doors are placed. Above this is a balcony with balustrade. The facades contain in the basement two straight-headed windows and on the storeys each two windows, separated from each other by a wall pier. On the first storey the windows are closed with compressed segmental arches; on the second storey with round arches and coloured brick decoration in the arch barrels. In the western side facade between the wings on the first storey is placed a wooden conservatory with coloured leaded glass in the fanlights. The facades between the stepped gables are closed off by a decoratively built round-arch frieze with moulding and consoles, which carries a profiled roof gutter. The front yards are bordered by wrought-iron fencing from the time of construction. The structure and original layout and decoration of Verlengde Oosterweg 9 has been very well preserved. Of importance are among others the wooden stairwell with richly carved balusters, white marble corridor, the original kitchen in the basement with marble countertop and wooden cabinet walls, landing with coloured leaded glass window and various, richly ornamented stucco ceilings and black marble fireplaces and panel doors in the living rooms on the storeys. Valuation TOWNHOUSE-BUILDING, consisting of three independent units of use, designed in a richly decorated, eclectical building style with stylistic features of neo-gothic and neo-Renaissance, characteristic of the architecture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the aesthetic and architectonic qualities of the design by the offset roof and building line and lively facade decorations in stucco and because of its integrity. Moreover the building forms through its striking location with various sight lines, as the termination of the detached villa building on the south side of the Heresingel a striking architectonic element in the high-value urban planning structure of the ring-road series on the south side of the inner city of Groningen.