Woonhuis, Spoorweglaan 7

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION, 1901, in a mixture of Art Nouveau and chalet style. Built according to a design by Maastricht architect W. Sprenger, commissioned by T. Scharner. Situated in the linear building development of the Spoorweglaan, on the corner of the Bourgognestraat. In 1905 the house was extended on the rear with a coachhouse. The renewed window roller shutters and the brick structure on the rear roof plane are excluded from protection.

Description

The mansion has two storeys plus basement and attic storey on an L-shaped ground plan and is provided in the angle with an entrance section plus a chamfered double bay window under a flat roof. On the rear facade there is an extended, now completely modernised conservatory, plus the attached coachhouse. Both have one storey and are provided with a flat roof. The residential part is covered by a hipped roof with pan tiles, ridge cresting, high-rising chimney, a roof dormer provided with an ornamented wooden roof projection and slate in Dutch bond. Two recent roof windows in the roof plane on the Bourgognestraat. The transverse volume on the street side has a substantial recessed cap with chalet projection on wooden consoles, ridge cresting and crête. Copper rainwater pipe. Gutters with wooden consoles resting on red, profiled moulding. The roof terrace of the coachhouse is provided with a wrought iron balustrade. The building has a stuccoed plinth with imitation mortar joints, basement windows with wrought iron grilles. Recessed porch with four hardstone flight of steps. Front and side facade built in red and yellow brick in figurative colour patterns, laid in stretcher bond. Hardstone sills, profiled black brick sill mouldings. Red facade frames. In the segmental or round arch-shaped window reveals decorative stucco, including the date marking 1901. The projecting building volume on the street side has in the first storey two segmental arch-shaped wooden T-windows; in the second storey a large, vertically divided rectangular wooden window in a round arch frame with keystone in the form of a female head; wooden T-window in round arch frame in the gable. Leaded glass fanlights. Profiled window frames with ashlar courses and keystones. Double bay window with chamfered corner and recessed porch with richly worked wooden stiles, balusters and fanlights. Vertically divided, rectangular wooden windows with leaded glass fanlights. Rectangular wooden panel door in Art Nouveau style with wrought iron grille and leaded glass. Side facade with two window bays, provided with wooden T-windows with leaded glass fanlights. The wooden gate of the coachhouse has been replaced by a recent roller shutter under a concrete lintel. The ornamented window hoods are from the former Villa Aldegonda. The rear facade is of greyish-brown brick and has irregularly placed, segmental arch-shaped wooden windows with grilles and frame. The layout of the INTERIOR has been partly adapted.

Valuation

The mansion at Spoorweglaan 7 is of very great architectural-historical value because of the building style, the involvement of architect Sprenger, the high-quality aesthetic qualities, the special use of materials and the ornamental details. The building is a very important part of the Wyck district on the eastern Meuse bank, is because of its setting very strongly connected with the development of the city and of very special significance for the appearance of Maastricht. The building is intact to a high degree and of very great importance for the structural and visual integrity of the urban environment. Moreover, the mansion has a high degree of architectural-historical rarity.