Winkel (G2), Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 19

English translation

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Description

Introduction

SHOP BUILDING, with original shops and dwellings, on the corner of the Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat and the Broerstraat, built in 1896 to the design of Groningen architect A.Th. van Elmpt in neo-Gothic style. The complex is now incorporated into the new construction of the University Library which borders the building on the south and east sides, as a result of which the building has been altered.

Description

The building is erected on two plots that are primarily rectangular in plan and comprises three storeys under a truncated hipped roof, covered with slate. The roof panels are provided with small dormers with shutters and flanking small windows. The facades, constructed of red-brown brick, are terminated by a brick cornice drip moulding and a half-laid profiled brick gutter. The facade on the north side is two bays and a narrow entrance bay wide and the facade on the west side is five bays wide. The ground floor is entirely occupied by large shopfronts. These fronts are composed of brick wall piers with a reinforced ashlar base, on which a steel lintel rests. The bearings, and in the north facade the support of the lintels, are worked out as capitals. The shop windows stand on ashlar plinths. The entrance is placed in the chamfered north-west corner of the building and consists of a double, worked shop door in neo-Gothic design under a segmental arch and a three-part fanlight with coloured leaded glass. The facade masonry of the storeys is formed in a very plastic manner. The windows arranged one above the other are placed in niches in neo-Gothic style. The wall piers have, from the first storey, pilaster-like projections which at the frieze meet in segmental arches. Below the windows of the first storey a moulding meanders. All windows are provided with fanlights with fine-meshed glazing bars. Except for the chamfered corner, all window frames on the second storey are straight-sided and for the most part composed of a taller central window and slightly lower side windows. The corner is worked out on the first storey as a rectangular bay on stoutly projecting corbels with a vaulted span between them. On the second storey above this is a balcony with a masoned balustrade. The corner is crowned by a stepped gable with a semicircle-closed window, set in a semicircular field. The top is, as are many other gable finials, provided with ashlar cappings. Above the two southern bays of the west facade a stepped gable is likewise installed with window and decorative brickwork. The building is richly decorated with wrought-iron wall anchors, hollow-moulded profiles in the window panels and various types of ornamental masonry of coloured brick in parapets and wall piers.

Valuation

SHOP BUILDING, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the architectural quality of the design and because of the architectural integrity of the exterior as well as because of the significance of the building in the oeuvre of architect A.Th. van Elmpt. Moreover, the building by its striking location on the corner of the Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat and the Broerstraat forms a valuable architectural element in the urban planning structure at this location.