Woonhuis, Praediniussingel 35

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, situated in the closed, northern facade wall consisting of late nineteenth-century townhouses of the Praediniussingel, built in 1898 on behalf of the Groningen contractor/architect P. Belgraver according to his own design in neo-Renaissance style. The building forms part of an ensemble of two townhouses. The tiled front courtyard is bordered by elegantly worked wrought-iron railings. The building is currently still in use as a practice with residential accommodation. Description The building is erected on a rectangular floor plan and comprises three storeys under a hipped roof, covered with a flat Frisian pan. The facade is terminated by a frieze suggestion, consisting of fluted corbels, which carry a profiled drip moulding. The front facade is three bays wide, erected in red brick and provided with a hard stone plinth. The facade brickwork is enlivened with stucco window-sill bands. The front roof shield contains a substantial dormer with scrolled cheeks, which is crowned by a pediment. On the ground floor the windows are straight-headed and decorated with negblocks and keystones. A stuccoed cornice moulding separates the ground floor from the first floor. Above the entrance is placed against the facade a rectangular wooden bay window on worked corbels. The bay window is decorated with a small list drip moulding. The windows on the first floor are likewise straight-headed and are crowned by tympana. The windows on the second floor are closed in a herringbone pattern. The rear facade contains the original layout with a wide built-in balcony. On the floor there are three straight-headed windows with segmental-arched relief arches. The narrow front courtyard is tiled with ochre-coloured tiles and bordered with elegantly worked, wrought-iron railings. Internally the original structure, layout and decoration have been well preserved. Of importance, among others, the hall with wooden and glazed draught door and corridor with white marble floor, the wooden staircase with carved wooden balusters, the rooms en suite on the ground floor with wooden sliding doors, black marble fireplaces, ornamented stucco ceilings and wooden conservatory, the wooden panel doors, the rooms en suite on the bel étage with wooden sliding doors, black marble fireplaces and ornamented stucco ceilings and a wooden fireplace in the front room on the second floor with carved small columns and blue tiles. Evaluation TOWNHOUSE WITH IRON RAILINGS, carefully designed in the characteristic neo-Renaissance building style with restrained architecture from 1898, characteristic of the architecture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, of general importance from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical perspective as an intact component of the high-quality urban planning structure of the ring of canals on the south side of the inner city of Groningen.