Woonhuis, Hereplein 10

English translation

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Description

Introduction MANSION WITH IRON FENCE, consisting of three separate dwellings, entirely detached situated in the southeastern quadrant of the Hereplein, built in 1888 to the design of the Groningen architect P.M.A. Huurman in a richly decorated eclectic architectural style characteristic of the end of the nineteenth century with stylistic features of the neo-Renaissance. The attached wooden conservatory on the western side facade has not been present since the Second World War. The building has been in office use for a long time and has been drastically adapted internally accordingly. The boundary fence consists of ironwork from the time of construction between cast-iron balusters with spherical ornamental elements. Description The monumental building is erected on a rectangular ground plan and consists of a basement, ground floor and a first storey. The corner risalits of the complex have, in contrast to the central bays recessed by approximately half a metre, a second storey with a roof storey under a high truncated hipped roof, covered with a rare roof slate. The facades are finished with a profiled wooden gutter, which is carried by wooden consoles. The facades are built up in reddish-brown brick and symmetrical in layout. The basement is provided with imitation rustication. The front facade is thirteen bays wide; the side facades are four bays wide. The facades are enlivened with profiled cordon lines and sill bands in white plaster. The windows on the ground floor are closed with round arches; the first-floor windows with raised segment arches. The arch drums are filled with brick diaper pattern. The front doors have round fanlights, set in profiled stucco moulding and are crowned by a tympanum. The double windows of the second storey are crowned and bordered with timber-frame and brick diaper friezes. The side facades have received the same finish. The slightly projecting central risalits are crowned by cabins with tympana and stucco moulding. The rear facade has a flat stuccoed basement and windows regularly distributed across the facade surface. Against the roof panels are placed cabins with richly finished stucco moulding, tympana, small half-columns, corbels, finials and shield-bearing griffins. The boundary fence consists of ironwork from the time of construction between cast-iron balusters with spherical ornamental elements. Valuation MANSION WITH IRON FENCE, built in a richly decorated, eclectic architectural style with stylistic features of the neo-Renaissance, characteristic of the building art from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the monumental character of the architecture, which displays numerous neo-mannerist motifs in the decoration scheme, as well as because of the remarkable orientation to and situation on the high-quality urban planning space of the Hereplein in Groningen. Moreover, the building forms an important part of the oeuvre of architect P.M.A. Huurman in Groningen.