"Ambtenarenwoningen ""Woningzorg"""

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Description

Introduction

U-shaped street façade with 15 CIVIL SERVICE DWELLINGS of the Building Association "Woningzorg" in Maastricht, 1920-21. Built by the building contractor L.H. Bredero of Utrecht, according to a design by the architects V. Marres and W. Sandhövel, in a traditional building style with expressionistic elements.

In 1961/62 renewal of kitchens and bathrooms, front doors, installation of central heating systems; 1963, during the construction of a tunnel under the railway facility, the garden walls of Kunrade stone along the Scharnerweg were removed; 1987, major maintenance, during which aluminium ventilation louvres were fitted to the outer windows and doors of all properties, the hinges and fastening hardware of all outer windows and doors were renewed, the paintwork was renewed; 1993, renewal of red Tuiles du Nord.

Rollers shutters, sunscreens and incidental extensions and outbuildings are excluded from protection.

Description

Fifteen civil service dwellings in a U-shaped street façade, with various dwelling types. Meerssenerweg 319-325 with dwelling types H1, A, B, I; Prof.Roerschstraat 2-14 with dwelling types I, B, A, A, A, B, I; Prof.P.Willemstraat 40-46 with types H, A, B, I.

The dwellings have different floor plans: rectangular (type A), rectangular with a chamfered corner section on the rear façade (type B), rectangular with an extension on the detached side façade (type H), rectangular with two extensions on the detached side façade (type H1), triangular with a chamfer on front and rear façades (type I).

The buildings have two storeys with basement and attic storeys, all situated in the transverse direction in relation to the street. The corner types I are provided with three window bays, the other dwellings with two.

Double corner buildings of type I are additionally characterised by a chamfered corner section, partly extending into the roof, with a combined entrance. The building of type H is provided in the detached façade with a triangular oriel window, a window bay and brick lattice work. The building H1 has two side façade oriels and a profiled chimney breast. The front façades of the H-types are identical to those of types A and B, albeit that these two latter have a mutually mirrored façade layout.

All residential houses are built in brick. The front façades are laid in English bond, the detached side façades and the rear façades in Flemish bond. Low plinth with drip moulding. Sandstone sills.

Profiled round-arch door casings, with multiple drip mouldings.

Window frames with profiled mouldings. Vertical decorative brickwork between the window and door casings of the first and second storeys.

Frames above the windows and doors on the first storey of the rear façades. Continuous drip moulding in the cornice. Various garden wall sections with half-hipped roof ends.

In contrast to the front doors, the other window and door casings of both front and rear façades have remained completely intact, including the small glazing bars. In the front façades these are: multiple coupled, rectangular wooden cross windows with four-pane fanlights; both single and multiple vertically articulated, rectangular wooden window casings with six-pane glazing bars per panel; four and six-pane windows; two-pane door sidelights; vertically articulated roof window casings with eight-pane glazing bars; rectangular wooden balcony doors with sidelights, as a whole provided with small glazing bars; in the rear façades: multiple vertically articulated, rectangular wooden window casings with six-pane glazing bars per panel; rectangular wooden doors, partly with three-pane fanlights and partly with three-pane fanlight one eight-pane sidelight; rectangular double wooden terrace doors with six-pane fanlight and sidelights with four-pane fanlight; rectangular wooden windows with six-pane glazing bars.

The whole is covered by gabled roofs and hipped roofs with red Tuiles du Nord. Roof dormers under inserted roof coping, provided with small corner brackets.

Projecting ridge chimneys. Ridge finials.

Garden walls of Kunrade stone with hinged wooden gate frames, renovated in accordance with the original design. In the rear gardens, at the intersections of three and four plots respectively, there are communal wooden garden sheds with flat roof and tent roof with red interlocking tiles and zinc ridge finial.

Valuation

The civil service dwellings have cultural-historical value as a particular expression of a socio-economic and typological development. The architectural-historical values are determined by the building style, the involvement of the architects Marres and Sandhövel, the very high-quality aesthetic qualities of their design and the ornamental details.

The dwellings are of very special significance because of their location, which is closely linked to the expansion of the city on the east side of the railway facility and of special significance for the appearance of the city.

The dwellings have a high degree of architectural integrity and are important because of the structural and visual integrity of the urban environment. Moreover, in a regional context, there is a reasonable typological rarity.