Woonhuis, Ubbo Emmiussingel 53

English translation

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Description

Introduction MANSION, situated in the almost closed, northern facade of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, built in 1892 and carefully designed in an eclectic architectural style. The front courtyard is bordered by a modest wrought-iron fence. The concrete low extension on the rear facade dates from 1940 and was used by the Germans as a transmitter station. The building is currently in use as an office with a residential apartment above. Description The building is erected on a rectangular ground plan and comprises three storeys under a hipped roof, covered with black Frisian roof tiles. The front facade is three bays wide and erected in reddish-brown brick. The masonry is enlivened with fluted stucco bands. The front courtyard is bordered by a modest wrought-iron fence. The front facade of the recessed ground floor is heavily plastered and fitted with fluted imitation rustication blocks. The straight-sided door and window openings are covered with recessed bands. The entrance consists of a double, carved door with a sandstone step. The ground floor is finished with a profiled drip moulding in stucco. The upper floors are fitted with straight-sided windows with segmental arches and coloured brick decorations in the arch soffits. The spandrels beneath the window sills with corbels are composed of yellow and red decorative brickwork. The high first storey is finished with a stucco cornice band. The facade is finished with a wooden cornice on which paired corbels are mounted, supporting a profiled gutter. The roof is bordered by a wooden roof edge. The rear facade contains on the ground floor glazed garden doors with a cross glazing pattern and on the first floor a wooden veranda whose canopy rests on wooden columns. On the western corner there is on the first floor an extension with a three-sided bay window with an overlying balcony. The straight-sided T-windows are closed with recessed bands. The front courtyard is bordered by a simple wrought-iron fence. The original structure and layout has been very well preserved. Of importance are, among others, the hall with tiled floor and glazed draught door, white marble corridor, wooden staircase with richly carved balusters and glazed window in the side facade of the staircase with coloured glass (yellow and dark rose) and richly ornamented stucco ceilings and stucco ornamentation. Valuation MANSION, designed in an eclectic architectural style, characteristic of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the architectural and aesthetic qualities of the design, the good proportions and relationships and the special coherence between exterior and interior (components). Moreover, the building forms a valuable accent in the continuous, valuable development on the north side of the Ubbo Emmiussingel and thereby an important element in the high-quality urban planning structure of the ring road along the south side of the city centre of Groningen.