Woonhuis, Ubbo Emmiussingel 23

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, situated in the almost closed, northern facade of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, built in 1885 on behalf of J.T. Vos in a richly decorated, eclectic architectural style, characteristic of the architecture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The rear building was raised by one storey in 1905 and carefully adapted to the existing building part. The building is currently in use as an office. The interior is largely in its original state. The front courtyard is bordered by wrought-iron fencing. Description The building is erected on a deep, rectangular plan and consists of a basement with two storeys under a truncated hipped roof, covered with black ceramic tiles in a overlapping pattern. The front facade is three bays wide and built in reddish-brown brick. The cornice-topped facade consists of a double pilaster arrangement, which encompasses the entrance bay and the double window bay. At ground floor level, breast walls under the windows and the bases of the Tuscan pilasters are placed on the plinth. The windows are closed with depressed round arches and provided with moulded stucco frames with keystones. At the level of the relieving bricks, small mouldings are placed against the masonry. The richly carved door with fanlight is framed with moulded stucco moulding and crowned with a frieze with a scrollwork cartouche and a tympanum. The ground floor is finished with a flat cornice with consoles, which supports the moulded cordon moulding of the first storey. On the first storey, pilasters are arranged with composite capitals; the panels of the shafts are provided with fluting. The windows on the first storey are closed with keel arch form and possess breast walls with closed balusters. The window above the entrance received decorated moulding and above the straight closure a segmental arch tympanum with palmette. The facade is finished with a cornice with panels and blocks, which support a moulded roof gutter. Against the roof, a simple cabin was added above the entrance bay in the nineteen-fifties. The side and rear facade of the rear building, separated from the front building by an inner courtyard, are completely plastered and provided with schematic joints. The rear facade contains on the ground floor a broad rectangular conservatory on pedestals with coloured stained glass in the fanlights. On the first storey there are three segmental arch-closed windows and on the second storey four straight-closed T-windows. Internally, the original structure and layout have been largely preserved. Of importance are amongst others the hall with white marble flooring and wainscoting and stucco ornamentation, a three-flight white marble staircase with wooden draught door, the extremely richly appointed long corridor connecting the front and rear buildings, with white marble flooring, wainscotting in imitation marble, wooden panel doors with richly carved tympana with shell-work in neo-Renaissance style, richly moulded stucco with tympana, beautifully coloured stained-glass windows opposite the stairwell on two storeys, framed by a wooden, decorated frame, the wooden stairwell with wooden wainscotting and richly carved wooden balusters, the richly ornamented stucco ceilings and black marble fireplaces in almost all rooms, with as a special feature the extremely richly decorated, polychrome painted stucco ceiling in the back room of the front building with egg mouldings, acanthus leaves and tendrils and foliage work and the black marble fireplace with mirror and ornamented pilasters, the wooden sash doors and the carved wooden window sills on consoles. All woodwork is lacquered in wood imitation. The front courtyard is bordered by wrought-iron fencing between cast-iron balusters. Assessment TOWNHOUSE, designed in a richly decorated, eclectic architectural style with a special composition and decoration of the facade and interior, of general importance from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical point of view as a well-preserved component of the high-quality urban planning structure of the ring road series on the south side of the inner city of Groningen. Moreover, the building is of importance because of the aesthetic and architectural qualities of the design, the special relationship between exterior and interior and because of the ornamentation.