Woonhuis, Oude Boteringestraat 59

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, situated in the closed, eastern facade of the Oude Boteringestraat, built in 1896-1897 at the instruction of the Rooms Katholiek Armbestuur (Roman Catholic Poor Relief Board) after a design by the Groningen architect A.Th. van Elmpt in a neo-gothic architectural style. The building was restored in 1992 and is currently in use as student housing. The renewed extension at the rear falls outside the protection. Description The building, which consists of a front and rear house, separated from each other by a courtyard and connected to each other via a passage, is erected on a deep, rectangular plan and comprises three storeys under a gabled roof. The front facade is three bays wide and built up in red pressed brick with dark, moulded edges at the windows. The ground floor is provided with a hardstone plinth and is four bays wide. The corner bays contain entrance arrangements with worked panel doors and fanlights. The fanlights consist of coupled round-arch windowpanes with coloured leaded glass and are topped by a tympanum-like covering with decorative tile fillings. The two windows are closed with a segmental arch and have three-part fanlights and hardstone window sills. The upper storeys are three bays wide. On the first floor, in front of the middle bay is a three-sided wooden oriel on a large natural stone console, which for the second storey forms a small balcony, furnished with a delicately worked wrought-iron railing. The oriel is topped with lead. The windows on the first floor are rectangular-closed with natural stone lintels and segmental-arch relieving arches. The windows of the second storey are likewise rectangular-closed and contain segmental-arch relieving arches. The drums and the parapets are filled with brick decorations. On the second storey, moulded and console-supported wall shafts support the slightly projecting gable top. The gable top contains at the sides two small standing windows with leaded glass and a composite window with coupled fanlight in the middle. The facade is crowned by a pinnacle, which rests just above the middle window on a console. By means of facade bands, consoles, string-courses, cornice mouldings and the like, the brick facade received enrichments in natural stone, which in many cases received sculptured representations. The rear facade of the front house contains a double, rectangular-closed window under a segmental arch and two rectangular-closed T-windows on the upper storey. Internally, the original structure and layout have been well preserved. Of importance, amongst others, the hall and passage with glazed draught door, white marble floor and wainscoting, worked wooden panel doors, the front room on the ground floor with black marble chimney and mantel with mirror, the wooden staircase with richly carved wooden end balusters and the ornamented stucco ceilings in the room en suite on the principal floor with black marble chimney. Valuation TOWNHOUSE, designed in 1896-1897 by the Groningen architect A.Th. van Elmpt with strong characteristics of neo-gothic, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value, because of the architectural quality of the design, the careful choice of materials and the craftsmanship of the execution. Furthermore, the building forms an important architectural element in a series of valuable properties in the eastern facade of the Oude Boteringestraat in Groningen.