Woonhuis, Heresingel 10

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE WITH WOODEN GANGWAY GATE, situated in the virtually enclosed northern facade of the Heresingel, built in 1882 in a richly decorated neo-classical architectural style. The building is currently in use as an office. Description The building is constructed on a rectangular ground plan and comprises two storeys under a hipped roof, covered with hexagonal slates in Rhenish bond. Substantial chimneys with chimney-breasts stand on the roof ridges. The front facade is four bays wide and asymmetrical in arrangement. The brickwork is built of greyish-brown brick and provided with various decorative enrichments of yellow sandstone. The stoep of approximately one and a half metres deep is bordered by elegantly worked cast-iron railings. All windows are closed in a segmental form and the relieving arches are provided with keystones and ashlar blocks with diamond heads. After a low plinth of hardstone slabs, the ground floor is provided with a continuous breast wall of rusticated sandstone blocks, which is terminated with a continuous underdorpel moulding. The corners of the front facade are provided with sequences of rusticated sandstone blocks, toothed over the ground floor and aligned on the upper storey and provided with recessed mirrors. The entrance section with a hardstone stoep of two steps and a sculptured double door with a semicircular fanlight is flanked by substantial pilasters set against the facade on substantial bases with fantasy capitals. Within this is a semicircular arch around the fanlight set on Doric pilasters. Above the entrance section is a balcony which (probably in the fifties) was replaced by concrete with a wrought-iron balustrade. The rear facade section with a glazed door is bounded without a break by sequences of sandstone blocks. The windows of the upper storey are decorated with overhanging tassels of natural stone. The facade is crowned by a frieze of metope-slabs set free in the brickwork between a series of wavy consoles, which carry a moulded gutter. In the eastern side facade a semicircular-arched window, behind which the staircase is concealed, with sandstone ashlar blocks and keystone with diamond heads. The rear facade retains the original arrangement with segment-arched windows and glazed garden doors. Immediately behind the house stands a neat brick shed from the period of construction with a double, openwork wooden eave moulding. On the eastern facade is a neat wooden gangway gate with wooden pilasters with mirrors and a semicircular arch with keystone. Internally, the original structure and furnishing of the interior have been largely preserved. Of importance are, among others, the white marble hall and corridor with brown marble wainscoting and fine stucco decorations, wooden staircase with stucco pilasters, richly carved end balusters and railings, the semicircular-arched window with a tympanum-like crowning and filled with coloured glass halfway up and ornamented stucco ceilings in various rooms. Valuation TOWNHOUSE WITH GANGWAY GATE, erected in a fine neo-classical architectural style, of general importance because of the exceptionally high quality of the facade composition and because of the architectural integrity of the exterior and interior (components). Moreover, the building is valuable from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical perspective as an intact component of the high-quality urban planning structure of the ring canal row on the south side of the inner city of Groningen.