Woonhuis, Wilhelminasingel 64

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION with elements of Neo-Renaissance built around 1900. The property is situated in the closed inner wall of the Wilhelminasingel.

Description

The mansion has a rectangular plan placed in the transverse direction, comprises three storeys and a basement storey and is covered with a mansard roof with interlocking tiles. A dormer window with a small hipped roof and wrought iron crest.

Asymmetrical facade construction and arrangement.

Front facade: moulded hardstone plinth with basement openings and grilles. Orange-yellow brick construction in header bond, red brick in the X- and diamond-shaped decorative brickwork.

Risalit over two axes in the left section of the front facade. Red-yellow tile work in diamond pattern in the cornice between the gutter brackets. Hardstone sills, lintels. Stuccoed diamond-head details in the reveals, interlacings in the filler pieces. Stuccoed facade lintels. Central in the second storey a balcony with wrought iron balustrade, on consoles with flower ornaments. Three window axes. Gutter with richly ornamented consoles. Stepped gable with stucco casing and wrought iron crest.

Blind right side facade, free from the second storey onwards. Greyish-brown brick in English bond. Stuccoed bonding courses. Moulded horizontal facade lintels, moulded chimney base, gabled roof with tiles, stepped gable on light-red moulded consoles, corner lisenes.

Projecting stairwell section under flat roof at rear facade. Tapering extension of two storeys under flat roof, incl. recent balcony balustrade. In the greyish-brown brick rear facades, laid in English bond, are segment-arch-shaped wooden windows, T-shaped and vertically divided and door, hardstone sills. Window reveals.

Conservatory of one storey under flat roof in the corner, with light lintels in the length direction, furnished with wire glass "shed-roof-like". Conservatory frame with fanlights and side lights, centrally placed double wooden doors, leaded light. The facade fields are furnished with decorative brickwork in half-brick bond.

Very well-preserved INTERIOR, of which the arrangement is completely intact, which includes among others: hallway floor of multicoloured marble mosaic, four hardstone steps in the front porch, stairwell with woodcarving in the balustrade, stucco rosettes and lintels, marble fireplace surrounds, wooden fireplace lintels with diamond-head details and fluting, stairwell consoles with stucco figures, stuccoed passage arches in column form with Composite capitals, diamond-head basement, fluting. Panelled doors in lintels, sliding doors in former ground-floor reception rooms.

Valuation

This former mansion possesses cultural historical value as a distinctive expression of a typological development.

The property is of architectural historical value due to the building style, the aesthetic qualities of the design, the distinctive use of materials and the ornamentation, and the distinctive relationship between exterior and a portion of the interior. The former mansion possesses ensemble value due to its location within the expansion of the protected townscape Wyck, and the built environment on the Wilhelminasingel is also of special significance for the appearance of the city. The former mansion is finally of general importance due to the architectural integrity of the exterior and interior and the typological rarity.