Woonhuis, Schuitendiep 47

English translation

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Description

Introduction DOUBLE TOWNHOUSE, situated on the corner of the closed, western facade of the Schuitendiep and the Gedempte Kattendiep, built around 1845 in a richly ornamented, eclectic architectural style. The right part (no. 47) is internally connected to a former warehouse on the Gedempte Kattendiep, which falls outside the protection. No. 47 is currently in use as an office and no. 49 is currently in use as a residential house. Description The broad and shallow building is erected on a rectangular plan, forming part of an L-shaped cadastral plot, and comprises two storeys under a hipped roof, covered with black corrugated tile. The front facade is terminated by a waffle-shaped stuccoed frieze with worked, paired consoles, which carry a moulded gutter. The front facade is ten bays wide and symmetrical in layout. The facades are entirely stuccoed and provided with rustication. The two middle bays of the front facade are set between pilasters, which are provided with mirror panels. The entrance bay contains two worked wooden front doors with a shared sandstone step. The fanlights have cast-iron life trees. The entrance section is covered by a cornice. This bay is built up to a tympanum-shaped closure with a circular window, which breaks through the frieze and gutter. On the first floor above the doors two windows are placed which are jointly covered by a stuccoed decorative relieving arch, consisting of a suggestion of wedge-shaped blocks with recessed fields, which are decorated with scrollwork. All other windows have lintel-shaped relieving arches in the same manner but without ornament. The side facade on the Gedempte Kattendiep is two bays wide. The front bay contains windows, the rear blind windows. This facade received the same detailing as the front facade. The rear facade is built up of red brick and contains lightly arched six-pane windows. The structure, layout and decoration has been partly preserved. Of importance in both parts is a monumental corridor with white marble floor and richly ornamented stuccoed ceiling, richly ornamented walls with moulded rounded-arch stucco moulding with carvings and painted imitation marble and wooden panel doors. The corridor in no. 47 also contains a broad rounded-arch opening, flanked by pilasters with mirror panels, rosettes and cassettes and in a rounded-arch niche in the rear facade a sculpture of a female figure holding a horn of plenty. No. 49 still possesses a wooden staircase with carved end balusters. Valuation DOUBLE TOWNHOUSE, with monumental architectural form, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the architectural quality of the design and because of its rich stuccoed decorations designed in an eclectic style (both on the exterior and interior). Furthermore, the building forms an important architectural element in the urban planning structure in the place.