Woonhuis, Lage Kanaaldijk 5

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION in the closed street frontage of the Lage Kanaaldijk, set back in relation to the neighbouring street frontage. Built around 1905, in a style influenced by the chalet style.

Description

The mansion has an L-shaped floor plan. Main volume of two storeys in the lengthwise direction with basement and attic storey under an asymmetrical gabled roof with inset hip. Extension of two storeys under a flat roof perpendicular to the rear facade.

Asymmetrical front facade risaliting over three bays in light red brick, laid in cross bond. Plastered mortar joints plus ashlar stones, stuccoed end stones in diamond-head form, window and door reveals with yellow-red ornamental brickwork in two block-bond patterns. Against the risaliting facade section, a large wooden terrace gallery with balcony is placed in the first storey, supported on six wooden columns and a brick terrace wall with ashlar coping, stuccoed balusters and ashlar steps. Between the wooden columns are round arches with open-worked spandrels in wood carving. The balcony is fitted with a simple new wooden balustrade. In the gable top is a smaller wooden balcony on consoles and an ornamented wooden balustrade. Ashlar door steps, ashlar thresholds running through into the terrace balustrade. Stuccoed plinths, partly with imitation rustication and mortar joints. Stuccoed facade strip between the first and second storey.

Wooden panelled door with wrought-iron grille, furnished with rosettes and the initial "D" and fanlight with small glazing bars.

Double, segmental-arched wooden terrace doors with 18-pane glazing bars in the fanlight, flanked by two round-arched wooden side windows with 9-pane fanlights.

In the second storey a rectangular wooden balcony door with 18-pane fanlight, flanked by rectangular wooden side windows with 9-pane fanlights. In the gable top a rectangular, double wooden balcony door with fifteen-pane fanlight.

Asymmetrical gabled roof with pan tiles. Guttering on brackets. Inset hip and soffit gutter on substantial consoles, chalet overhang, roof finial and ridge finial, open-worked wood carving. Roof dormer on front roof slope with pinched spire, furnished with ridge finial and tiles in Maas covering. Two chimneys. The inset hip and soffit gutter are supported on large wooden consoles. The gable top is fitted with a chalet overhang with open-worked wood carving, roof finial and ridge finial. Roof dormer on rear roof slope.

Blind, greyish-brown brick side facade, entirely white-painted rear facades. Therein segmental-arched wooden window and door frames with various glazing forms. Next to the outside door of the kitchen is a new segmental-arched window installed.

The rear garden is surrounded by a partly white-painted brick wall with buttresses.

In the INTERIOR, whose layout is intact, amongst other things the partly mosaic-inlaid terrazzo floors, the wooden room floors, the stucco rosettes and cornice strips, the panelled doors, the double wooden sliding doors between the sitting room and salon, the elm-wood staircase with wooden balustrade and handrail, a black-marble fireplace surround on the first floor, the wooden passage arch with composite capitals, flutings and diamond-heads are of importance.

Valuation

The mansion is of cultural-historical importance as an expression of a typological development. The property is of very great value because of the building style, the high-quality aesthetic quality, the special use of materials, the ornaments and the special coherence between exterior and interior.

From the perspective of ensemble values, the property is of particular significance because of its location in the linear building structure along the now-filled canal towards Liège. Moreover, the property is important for the appearance of the district.

The property has a very high degree of architectural integrity of exterior and interior and is important in relation to the structural and visual integrity of the built environment. Moreover, there is a great architectural-historical and typological rarity value.