Woonhuis, Ubbo Emmiussingel 112

English translation

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Description

Introduction Villa, detached and situated in a series of detached villas on the south side of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, built in 1895 on behalf of the Quintus family after a design by architect J.P. Hazeu in a richly decorated, eclectic building style with characteristics of the Neo-Italian Renaissance. The building has been in use as an office for a long time and has been partially adapted internally for this purpose (ground floor). The rear entrance next to the bay window has been modernised. The later added staircase on the western side facade is of secondary importance. Despite these alterations, the building has well preserved its monumental character. Description The villa is erected on a predominantly rectangular ground plan and consists of a basement with two storeys under a hipped roof, covered with grey fired Tuiles du Nord. In the front roof slope a cabin has been placed with a neo-Mannerist design. The front facade is three bays wide, erected in reddish-brown brick and, like the other facades, enlivened with sill bands of artificial sandstone. The facades are finished with a profiled wooden gutter. In front of the centrally placed entrance portal lies a seven-step hardstone staircase with railings. The wooden portico is very richly executed in neo-Mannerist style. The richly carved broad entrance door is flanked by sidelights executed in the same style and contains ornamental wrought iron grillwork. The side walls of the portico consist of glass between a wooden frame, which rests on a hardstone basement. Above the entrance door is a fanlight with coloured stained glass and neo-Mannerist scrollwork in stucco. Heavy stucco consoles with lion heads support a balcony with a curved wrought iron balustrade. The balcony window on the upper storey is threefold and is closed on the right by a cornice and crowned with a semicircular tympanum. The middle bay projects by half a brick. The basement is clad with hardstone, in which segmental arch-shaped windows for the basement are installed. In the basement of the eastern side facade a foundation stone with the text: H. & C.J. Quintus 22.6.95. The windows in the side bays are closed on the right and provided with straight moulding, architraves and parapets. The windows on the upper storey are crowned with triangular tympana. Under the profiled gutter is a continuous frieze, consisting of purple-red terracotta tiles with floral decoration in gold paint. Most windows in the side facades and in the rear facade still possess their original crowning in the form of architraves and large, triangular tympana. Internally, still of importance is the front part of the hall with stucco decorations, white marble floor, finely worked draught door with etched glass and the stairwell with a richly worked wooden staircase with railings and balusters. On the upper storey ornamented stucco ceilings in various rooms. Assessment Villa, erected in an eclectic building style characteristic of the second half of the nineteenth century with influences of the Neo-Italian Renaissance after a design by architect J.P. Hazeu, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value. Furthermore, the building, as part of a series of detached villas on the south side of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, forms an important element in the high-quality urban planning structure of the ring of canals on the south side of the inner city of Groningen.