Opslag, Alexander Battalaan 83

English translation

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Description

Introduction

DWELLING-WAREHOUSE in an Art Nouveau-influenced building style, 1906, situated in the closed frontage of the Alexander Battalaan. Built on the commission of sugar-confectionery manufacturer L. van den Eerenbeemt, to a design by Maastricht architect C.L.J. Hoogenstraaten.

Description

Dwelling with warehouse on U-shaped floor plan. Partly cellared main volume of three storeys under gabled roof with curved tiles, gutter on console brackets and decorative wrought-iron consoles, roof dormer. Extensions of three and two storeys under flat roofs on the rear facade, grouped around an originally open courtyard.

Symmetrical front facade with three window bays. Hard stone base plinth with mouldings and boot scrapers. Four-part, horseshoe-shaped warehouse door of later date, in which also the dwelling entrance. This door, originally an open carriage entrance, is surrounded by a whitewashed Florentine arch and crowned by a half-round balcony with wrought-iron balustrade. The underside of the balcony floor is provided with a stylized image of a human head. This balcony is accessed via a rectangular double wooden door with four-light fanlight, flanked on either side by a T-window with three-light fanlight. The windows of the second storey have chamfered lintels in a stuccoed moulding that encompasses the fanlights of the second storey, the facade section to the sill level of the third storey and the window tracery of the third storey. Plastered angle stones in the segmental arch of the third storey, beneath which three windows with small glazing bars in a recessed window moulding. The central window is divided vertically. All window and door frames have been renewed according to the original model. Red brick exterior with stylized hard stone sills, segmental arch, wrought-iron ornamental wall anchors and stuccoed facade shoulder pieces. Greyish-brown brick rear facades, segmental arch-shaped wooden window frames in various divisions.

The rear garden is surrounded by a brick wall with buttresses.

In the INTERIOR the warehouse layout has been completely altered due to the removal of internal walls, the originally open courtyard has been provided with a roof covering. The dwelling spaces on the storeys are largely still provided with the original layout. In these, of importance are the stucco rosettes, stucco mouldings, marble fireplace surrounds, panelled doors in mouldings, gangway arch with stucco consoles, terrazzo floor inlaid with mosaic in hallway, worked wooden stairwell balustrade.

Valuation:

The dwelling-warehouse is of cultural-historical importance as a distinctive expression of a typological development. The architectural-historical values are determined by the building style, the high-quality aesthetic qualities and the ornamentation.

Also the building is an essential component of a larger urban whole, which is of cultural-historical, architectural-historical and urban planning importance of national significance; the building is on account of its situation connected with the development of the city and is important for the townscape.

The building still has a high degree of architectural integrity and is also of importance in relation to the structural and visual integrity of the urban environment. The rarity values of the dwelling-warehouse are determined by a combination of architectural-historical and typological aspects.