Woonhuis, Ubbo Emmiusstraat 32

English translation

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Description

Introduction MANSION, separated on both sides by a narrow corridor from the adjoining buildings, situated in the short, eastern facade of the Ubbo Emmiusstraat, built in 1886-1887 on commission of Mrs. Widow Mulder-Everts in a richly decorated, eclectic architectural style. The building was converted in 1979 to student housing and was internally adapted for this purpose. Description The building is erected on a rectangular ground plan and comprises two storeys under a gabled roof, covered with black, flat Frisian roof tiles. The front facade is built up to a stepped gable and is three bays wide. The facade masonry is laid in reddish-brown brick and enlivened with plastered sill bands. The ground floor is fitted with a plastered plinth and a wooden, running across the entire facade sill band. The spandrels beneath the windows are set slightly recessed so that the wall piers appear as pilaster strips or pillars. At the height of the wall panels, small cornice capitals with rosettes are drawn on the wall piers. The window and portico openings in the right bay are rounded and have elliptical arches, fitted with stucco cornerstone blocks and keystones. The ground floor is finished with a substantial, profiled stucco cornice band. On the upper floor too, the articulation is accentuated with steps in the masonry. The trio of straight-sided windows is grouped together under a three-part, substantially profiled eyebrow arch with keystones. The semicircular arch soffits received a checkerboard pattern of black and yellow tiles. The large window in the gable top received identical design. The gable top is finished with small steps, alternately covered with plaster bands, which run across the entire facade. The crown is formed by a pinnacle of ornamental wrought iron with a weather vane. Between the round arches of the windows on the ground floor and in the gable top, numerous delicately worked wrought-iron wall anchors are fitted. The rear facade is built in red brick and contains an outbuilding with balcony and broad three-part windows under segmental arches with coloured brick decorations in the arch soffits. Valuation MANSION, remarkably designed in an eclectic architectural style with a rich application of ornaments, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the remarkable facade composition and the architectural integrity of the exterior.