Villa Lhoëst

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Eclectic VILLA LHOËST, 19th century. Built on commission of the Lhoëst family, around the middle of the nineteenth century involved in the establishment of the paper mill Lhoëst, Weustenraad & Cie, the later KNP. The responsible architects were in all probability Rémont & Fils, Liège (B). The villa is situated in a small area on the western Maas bank, which was originally separated from the villa park by the filled-in canal to Liège.

The extension on the left side facade, the glazed passarelle on the rear facade and the aluminium sun blinds are excluded from protection.

Description

Villa on more or less rectangular floor plan. Extension on the left side facade, central risalit in the brick rear facade, two front gable projections between which an extended entrance section with balcony. The whole comprises two storeys, plus basement and attic storeys.

Symmetrical front facade with three bays. Projecting central section with balcony, terminating in turrets, in which the entrance is placed. The balcony has a balustrade series and is supported by four hardstone Ionic columns.

On either side of this risalit are in the first storey two triangular bow windows. The villa has a profiled hardstone plinth, a white stuccoed and plastered brick construction with corner pilasters and cornice, hardstone sill and facade surrounds, neo-classical hardstone window and door surrounds. Rectangular wooden T-windows, rectangular double wooden frames with fanlight in the bow windows, separated by wooden pilasters with fluting and die capitals.

Round arched double wooden door with fanlight in hardstone surround with keystone, wrought ironwork grille.

The white plastered left side facade, partly hidden from view by a brick single-storey extension under flat roof, is symmetrically arranged, has three window axes and a chamfered shaped gable in the central axis. The side axes are crowned by roof dormers with pediment and corbels. The segmental arched wooden T-windows (both single and double) are provided with hardstone sills and stuccoed surrounds with keystone.

The right side facade is symmetrically arranged and has four window axes, each crowned by a roof dormer with pediments and corbels. As in the front facade a profiled hardstone plinth with basement windows, stuccoed corner pilasters, hardstone facade and sill surrounds and hardstone window surrounds with architrave surrounds on consoles. In these are rectangular wooden T-windows.

The rear facade is constructed in white jointed brick in stretcher bond and has a stuccoed plinth with basement windows, hardstone sills, a central risalit, three built-up segmental arched windows, a glazed passarelle against the former rear door and two rectangular wooden windows of recent date.

The villa has a mansard roof with flat section, with slate in Maas covering.

Turrets with wrought iron railings and weathervane. Box gutter with corbels and block decorations, neo-classical roof dormers with pediments and small corbels. Recent tilting windows on the rear roof plane, on either side of the centrally placed roof dormer.

Wraught iron railings on hardstone basement function as boundary fence.

The layout of the property, converted to offices, has remained largely intact. On the ground floor are two rooms with polychrome stucco ceilings, wainscoting, fitted wardrobes, parquet and marble fireplace element, double-framed panelled doors. Furthermore notably important are the double wooden folding doors with side lights and small glazing bars in the entrance hall, the stairwell with worked wooden balustrade.

Valuation

The Villa Lhoëst, a late nineteenth-century industrialist villa, is of cultural historical importance for socio-economic reasons, has great architectural historical values because of its architectural style, the aesthetic quality of the design, the use of materials and the ornaments. The villa because of its situation is strongly connected to the nineteenth-century urban development of Maastricht and is of great importance because of the historical-spatial relationship with surrounding waters, roads and green spaces. The integrity of the villa has been preserved to a reasonable extent, the cultural and architectural historical rarity value is reasonably great.