Woonhuis, Ubbo Emmiussingel 51

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE WITH GARDEN HOUSE, situated in the virtually closed, northern facade of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, result of a 1902 renovation of an existing townhouse from 1882 (client N.N. de Mol Moncourt) commissioned by Mr. H. van Hasselt to the design of Groningen architect P. van der Wint with a facade in an eclectic architectural style with classical elements and decorations in Art Nouveau style. The renovated staircase also received rich Art Nouveau styling. The building has been in use as an office since 1964 and was internally partly adapted for this purpose. The balcony on the second storey on the rear was partly closed off by an extension in 1969. Despite these alterations, the building has maintained its very monumental character well. Description The building is erected on a rectangular plan and comprises three storeys under a flat roof. The front facade is three bays wide and erected in pink-brown brick. The facade shows a division according to a classical schema. Brick pilasters are arranged on the corners on all three storeys, bearing differently elaborated sandstone cornices per storey. The central bay projects by a quarter stone. The facade masonry is enlivened with sandstone sill bands and fitted with a hardstone plinth. The railings of the pavement in front of the central entrance consist of sculpted hardstone newels. Between the newels wrought-iron railings are installed with Art Nouveau-style motifs. In front of the entrance door lies a four-step hardstone stoop. The wooden entrance door is richly sculpted with floral and leaf motifs in Art Nouveau style and fitted with a segmental arch-shaped closed fanlight with two elegantly curved glazing bars. The door is flanked by fluted pilasters of yellow sandstone. The soffits are clad with sculpted reliefs with sunflowers. The broad three-part windows on the ground storey are segmental arch-shaped and crowned by a projecting rectangular panel of yellow sandstone, which is decorated with floral motifs. The windows are fitted with sandstone parapets. Above the entrance is located on the first storey a five-sided wooden oriel with cut glass, which rests on a sandstone base, which is worked with chestnut leaves in relief. The oriel is covered with copper and has elegantly worked iron railings. The three-part windows beside it are straight-topped and crowned with a sandstone architrave, above which are three paired round arches with label blocks and sandstone voussoirs. The windows have also been fitted with sandstone parapets. The window of the central bay on the upper storey is set in a sculpted sandstone window frame with tympanum. On either side of this are found paired windows, set in a sandstone frame and crowned with a segmental arch-shaped tympanum. The facade is finished with a sandstone cornice. The rear facade is grey stuccoed and fitted with false joints. The straight-topped storey windows have segmental arch-shaped relieving arches. On the ground storey a broad wooden conservatory has been installed with a tiled floor and sliding doors. Behind the former kitchen stands partly detached a brick garden house in the form of a chalet. The characteristic small building comprises one storey under a truncated hipped roof, covered with slate. The projecting rain gutter rests on wooden blocks. The building stands on a brick parapet and the facade masonry of red brick is articulated by wooden post-and-rail framework. The rectangular and square panels are filled with red brick and grey brick along the edges. In the centre of the western facade is found a straight-topped window with original glazing bars. Internally, components of the original layout and of the later renovation have been partly preserved. Of importance are among others the hall with wooden and glazed draught door and corridor with white marble floor and white marble dado with flutes, worked teak wood panel doors and panelling, spaciously laid out and richly appointed oak wood staircase with landings, worked square balusters and open-worked balustrades with gold-coloured painting, curved glass-domed skylight with in the centre a raised square coloured stained-glass panel with floral motifs in Art Nouveau style, a painted frieze with floral motifs in the original colouring on the upper storey and the fine round-arched window with coloured stained glass with floral motifs and a wooden frame in Art Nouveau style, the blue-and-white tiled W.C. with white marble floor on the ground storey with fountain, the richly worked wooden sliding doors with pilasters and architrave of the suite of rooms on the ground storey with oak wood chimney breast with mantel and mirror in the rear room, the pink marble chimney breast with oak wood frame in the eastern front room and the stucco ceiling in the front room on the first storey in Art Nouveau style. Evaluation TOWNHOUSE WITH GARDEN HOUSE, with a monumental facade from 1902 to the design of Groningen architect P. van der Wint, in an exceptional stylistic variation of the late nineteenth-century eclecticism with classical and Art Nouveau elements and decorations, set within a classically ordered schema, of general importance on account of the aesthetic and architectural qualities of the design, the applied decorations and the choice of materials, on account of the particular coherence between exterior and interior (components) and on account of its significance in the architect's oeuvre. Moreover, the building is of importance from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical point of view as an intact and rare component of the high-quality urban planning structure of the ring of boulevards on the south side of the city centre of Groningen.