Schoolgebouw, Westerbinnensingel 48

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Description

Introduction SCHOOL BUILDING, standing freely situated at the corner of the Westerbinnensingel and the Verlengde Visserstraat, built in 1892-1893 as Westelijke Bewaarschool with teacher's dwelling designed by city architect A. Schram de Jong in a richly decorated, eclectic building style with characteristics of the neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic. The school with six classrooms was designed under the influence of the ideas of Swiss pedagogue Wilhelm Fröbel. Originally two play classrooms were fitted out with a sand box behind opening doors. The playground is bordered by a brick wall with coping. The building has been in use since 1994 as an office and depot space of the Stichting Monument & Materiaal and the Municipal repository for soil finds. Description The building is erected on a floor plan that is essentially rectangular in form and comprises one storey under high gabled roofs, covered with black quick-laid tiles. The facades are finished with a frieze of coloured brick with diamond-shaped and circular patterns and coloured brick corbels that support the rain gutter. The front facade on the Verlengde Visserstraat is three window bays wide. The long side facade on the Westerbinnensingel is five bays wide. The facades are built from red-grey brick and exuberantly enlivened with coloured brick ornaments and wrought-iron wall anchors. The projecting corner sections are, like the termination of the side facade, provided with high gable ends with a covering of red brick. In the corner projections there are broad three-part, rectangular-closed windows with slightly arched red brick lintels with a natural stone keystone and a suggestion of negative blocks in yellow brick. The windows have natural stone sills and brick tracery in the breast walls. The frames are provided at the top with chamfered edges. The windows possess the original glazing bars with a fine-mesh diagonal glazing bar pattern. Above the window on the Verlengde Visserstraat is a large round arch applied with dentil courses of coloured brick, which rests on half-columns with natural stone capitals and corbels. The arch drum is decorated with fan-shaped and circular patterns of coloured brick. In the gable end above it is a round window with star-shaped glazing bar pattern. The window of the projection on the Westerbinnensingel is flanked by arch configurations on half-columns and contains in the gable end two rectangular-closed windows under a common, kinked round arch with fan-shaped brick decoration. Above it is also a round window with star-shaped glazing bar pattern. To the left of the corner projection in the side facade is the entrance projection placed, provided with a smaller gable end with round window and natural stone covering. The door opening is segmentally arched closed with natural stone and is flanked by two narrow windows. The door contains a high fanlight with three round arches that is closed off by a natural stone lintel. Above it is also a round arch with coloured, circular brick decorations. The remaining windows in the side facade consist of three windows with a slightly wider centre window, separated from each other by wall piers with moulded brick. The long side facade on the inner courtyard contains a window strip of five horizontal windows with chamfered edges and natural stone window sills. The side facade is finished with a carved wooden cornice. The rear facades contain broad window assemblies with doors with glazing bars. The playground is bordered by a brick wall with coping. Valuation SCHOOL BUILDING, built as Westelijke bewaarschool in a characteristic, eclectic building style with elements of the neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance style with rich, coloured brick ornaments in the facades, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the architectural quality and rarity of the design and because of the architectural soundness of the exterior. The building occupies an important place within the oeuvre of the architect. Moreover, the building is of socio-cultural significance for the history of primary education in the city of Groningen.