Villa Heymans

English translation

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Description

Introduction VILLA, entirely detached situated on the south side of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, built in 1894 on commission of the well-known Groningen psychologist prof.dr. G. Heymans designed by H.P. Berlage, carefully developed in the style of the renewal architecture of around 1900. The building has been in use as an office since 1960 and has been largely internally adapted for this purpose. In the rear garden there is a rectangular wooden building with red cross tiles, which was used as a studio of Prof. Heymans.

Description The striking building is erected on a square plan in principal form and contains two storeys and an attic storey under mutually perpendicular gabled roofs, laid with red cross tiles. The asymmetrical facades are erected from a bright red Groningen pressed brick. The plinth is built from brown brick. The western part of the main facade is built up to a spout gable. On the ground floor of the front facade there is a three-part window with built-in pilasters and stretches. On the first floor two windows under a round arch are installed, resting on hard stone negblocks. On the attic storey there is a series of three narrow round-arch windows. The shoulders of the spout gable are covered with natural stone plates. Wrought-iron ornamental wall anchors adorn the gable top. In the middle bay there is the entrance door under a round arch, flanked by a round-arch window. Under the roof gutter an arch frieze is installed. The eastern part of the facade is dominated by a loggia with round arches; two are oriented to the east and one to the north. The loggia has a brick balustrade. The eastern loggia arches rest on a hard stone pillar with capital and basement. On the northeastern corner of the facade there is a sculpture, placed on a built-in console. A high, built-in chimney is placed in the facade plane. The eastern facade is built up in a spout gable. All window sills and negblocks with bead moulding are executed in hard stone. Against the southeastern facade on the ground floor a five-sided oriel is installed, which on the first floor transitions into a rectangular oriel. The oriel window contains coloured leaded glass. The oriel is crowned by a built-in parapet.

Internally still of importance a room largely in original condition on the ground floor on the south side with parquet floor, oak-wood wainscoting, richly decorated chimney with columns and fireplace, beam ceiling with consoles in the form of carved wooden male and female heads, coloured leaded glass in the fanlights of the windows, a glass partition with wooden glazing bars and the wooden staircase with original detailing.

Valuation VILLA, developed in a fine and careful manner in the style of the Renewal Architecture of around 1900, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the unique value of the design, which occupies an important place in the total oeuvre of architect H.P. Berlage, as well as because of the exemplary function which the design has had for the stylistic development of Dutch and in particular Groningen architecture. Moreover, the building forms an intact component of the high-quality urban planning structure of the ringroad series on the south side of the inner city of Groningen.