Woonhuis, Heresingel 24

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Description

Introduction MANSION, situated in the practically closed northern facade wall of the Heresingel, built in 1898 according to designs by Groningen architect G. Nijhuis in the neo-Renaissance architectural style. The building is currently still in use as a residential house with office. The tile tableaux in refined Art Nouveau style in the railings beneath the windows were made and signed by the 'Holland' factory in Utrecht. The building is currently still in use as a residential house. Description The building is erected on a plot of predominantly rectangular form and consists of a basement with two storeys under a truncated hipped roof, covered with barrel tiles. The front facade is concluded with a cornice with dentil moulding and consoles, which carry a profiled gutter. The gable pavilion in the middle of the front roof slope is elaborately designed with scroll brackets, pilasters and a curved tympanum with shoulders. The front facade is three bays wide. The basement, clad in hardstone, has an external entrance below the staircase entrance, where a staircase in the recessed step, provided with an iron railing, leads. A flight of six hardstone steps provides access to the double, worked door housed in a portico with three-part fanlight with leaded glass. The iron railing rests on the street side in hardstone pedestals with balls. All wall openings are closed with segment arch form. On the ground floor the windows are likewise closed with segment arch form. Relief blocks and keystones with masculine heads of artificial stone enliven and strengthen the segment arches, which are of a lighter stone type than the remaining masonry, which is laid in reddish-brown brick. The ground floor is concluded by a profiled cordon moulding. Beneath the windows are railings of plaster mouldings with recessed tile fields. On the upper storey too the railings of the windows have received this design. The tiles are painted in Art Nouveau style with floral motifs. In the middle bay an opening door is arranged behind the balcony. This balcony contains a balustrade between pedestals carrying decorative vases, and is supported by heavy, decorative consoles. The windows on the upper storey are straight-edged and have segment arch-form relieving arches with keystones with masculine heads of artificial stone. The arch drums are filled with tracery. Internally the structure and original layout have been very well preserved. Of importance are among others the hall with white marble floor and wall panelling and wooden draught door, the very richly ornamented polychrome painted stucco ceiling in the front room of the bel étage, the wooden staircase with richly carved wooden balusters and glass roof window with coloured glass, the basement in original condition with white tiled outer wall, richly ornamented stucco decorations in the corridor and stucco ceilings in the various rooms. Valuation Mansion, erected in a richly decorated, eclectic architectural style, which is 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 high-quality aesthetic qualities of the design and its exceptional completeness as well as because of the particular coherence between exterior and interior. Moreover, the building is of significance as an important element in the high-quality urban planning structure of the belt of arcaded buildings on the south side of the inner city of Groningen.