Woonhuis, Ubbo Emmiussingel 67

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWNHOUSE, forming part of an ensemble of three independent units with symmetrical arrangement and design, situated in the almost closed, northern facade row of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, built in 1885 on commission of H. Tjaden, A. van der Want and G. Schnitger in the building style of neo-Renaissance. The building is currently in use as a warehouse and residential house and has been internally partly adapted. Description The building is erected on a rectangular floor plan and consists of a basement with two storeys under a gabled roof, covered with a black corrugated tile. The front facade is three bays wide, laid up from reddish-brown brick and enlivened with stucco dormer bands. Before the entrance is a hardstone stoep one and a half metres deep with a flight of stairs of seven steps. Stoep and stairs are bordered by a wrought-iron fence. The basement is plastered in imitation rustication. The front door is placed in a shallow portico. The transition between the storeys is indicated by moulded stucco string courses. The windows are provided with plastered breast walls. The building contains on the ground floor square-headed windows with relieving arches in the form of flattened arches. The arch drums are filled with coloured brick decoration. On the floor the windows are closed with round arches, which are provided with corner blocks and quoins. On the floor a balcony with balustrade on worked consoles is provided for the middle bay. The facade is here articulated with fluted pilasters. The gable top is cut through with edge strips, pilasters and bands of plasterwork and is crowned by a heraldic cartouche with scrollwork and ornamental balls. In the gable top is a round-arch window, flanked by narrower, square-headed windows. The storeys are terminated by a frieze of coloured brick decoration in the fields between the stucco woodwork. The rear facade contains the original layout with two square-headed T-windows on the floor and a broad, rectangular wooden conservatory with coloured leaded glass in the fanlights at the rear on joist stones. Internally the structure and layout have been partly preserved. Of importance among others the ornamented stucco ceilings on the bel étage and the wooden staircase. Evaluation TOWNHOUSE, forming part of a symmetrically arranged ensemble and erected in an eclectic building style with stylistic features of neo-Renaissance, characteristic of the architecture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, of general importance because of the aesthetic and architectural qualities of the design. Moreover, the ensemble with a unique overall design and forming part of the valuable, continuous development on the north side of the Ubbo Emmiussingel, constitutes an important element in the high-value urban planning structure of the ring road series along the south side of the inner city of Groningen.