Woonhuis, Turftorenstraat 26

English translation

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Description

Introduction DWELLING HOUSE WITH YOUNGER SHOP FRONT, situated in the closed southern facade of the Turftorenstraat on the corner with the narrow Lutkenieuwstraat, originally seventeenth century, provided around 1850 with a sober, monumental cornice-topped facade with shop front in an eclectic architectural style. The building is currently in use as a dwelling house. Description The building is constructed on a rectangular ground plan and consists of two storeys and a mezzanine storey under a hipped roof, covered with corrugated tile. The front facade is three bays wide and contains over the full width on the ground floor a wooden shop front. The front is symmetrical in design and consists of a pilaster arrangement that encompasses door and windows. The whole is closed off by a moulded list. The consoles are provided with diamond heads and fields with a waffle motif. The three-part shop windows on the stuccoed plinth are provided with moulded glazing bars which at the top extend into a wave-shaped widening, which carries a rather substantial three-part round-arched closure with moulded list work. The double door possesses a fanlight with rounded corners. The rest of the facade is flatly plastered and provided with false joints. On the storey large six-pane windows are installed and beneath the moulded cornice with roof gutter, which conceals the front roof shield almost entirely from view, is situated a mezzanine storey, which possesses three horizontal windows. Front house and rear house form a shop property which presumably dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century. The front house possesses on the ground floor a high space and above it a storey. The rear house possesses a low internal hearth, an even more compressed inset and a storey. This spatial articulation is visible in the side facade on the Lutkenieuwstraat; both in the windows and in the wall anchors (ornamental). The door in the side facade with high fanlight is presumably installed in the eighteenth century. Internally still of importance the original wooden shop panelling along the walls with pointed arches in neo-gothic style. Evaluation Dwelling house, of seventeenth century origin with a monumental, nineteenth-century plastered cornice-topped facade, of general importance due to its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value as a representative of seventeenth-century dwelling-house architecture with internal hearth and inset, as well as due to the particularly well-designed shop front in eclectic architectural style, its integrity and its significance as part of the urban-planning valuable structure of character-defining properties in the Turftorenstraat. Moreover the building is of exceptional importance due to its typological rarity.