Woonhuis, Westerkade 10

English translation

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Description

Introduction MANSION, situated in the closed, eastern facade line of Westerkade which forms the eastern boundary of the former Westerhaven, built in 1889 on behalf of R. Hendriks as a mansion with cheese warehouse designed by architect J. Maris in an eclectic building style with neo-classicistic style characteristics. The building has been an office since the nineteen-thirties and was internally partially adapted for that purpose. The attic storey has been extended at the rear. The building is currently temporarily occupied pending a new use. Description The stately building is erected on a rectangular floor plan and comprises three storeys under a truncated hipped roof, covered with slate in Dutch bond. The facade is closed by a high cornice with panels, which carries a profiled gutter. The front gable contains in the middle a chapel with curved tympanum and oval window, flanked by zinc oculi. The front facade is four window bays wide and built up in reddish-brown brick and has an adjoining, covered side passage in which a round-arched doorway with iron grille is incorporated. This narrow side bay is accentuated on the storeys with a narrow rounded blind with keystone over two storeys. The pressed ground floor is heavily rustically decorated with bossed natural stone. The facade openings are rectangular and provided with a horizontal emphasis with keystone. The pair of double doors on the corners is richly carved and provided with wrought iron window grilles. The ground floor is closed by a profiled string course. In the upper storey facades are tall, segment-arch-shaped windows placed with negblocks and end pieces in natural stone. The windows on the second storey are additionally decorated with consoles and overhangs below the sill courses. The rear facade is whitewashed and contains rectangular windows. Internally, the original structure, layout and decoration have been partly preserved. Of importance among others the wooden staircase with richly carved end balusters and baluster pieces in the form of a seahorse, the richly decorated monumental hall of the bel étage with richly ornamented stucco ornaments on the ceiling and profiled stucco moulding with ornaments on the walls, a broad stuccoed round-arched passage with coffered ceiling, the two staircase windows in the side facades at the ends of the corridor, which are round-arch-shaped and filled with coloured stained glass and the richly ornamented stucco ceilings in the two rooms at the front on the bel étage with black marble fireplaces. Valuation MANSION, erected in a restrained executed, eclectic building style with stylistic characteristics of neo-classicism, characteristic of the architecture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, designed by architect J. Maris, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the architectural quality of the design, its integrity and because of the coherence between exterior and interior (components). Moreover, the building forms an important architectural element in a series of valuable buildings in the eastern facade line of Westerhaven in Groningen.