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English translation

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Description

Introduction

Built in 1923 as a dwelling house for Mrs S.J.G.A. Offerhaus Westra van Holthe to the design of A.H. Wegerif Gzn. (Apeldoorn). The expressionistic style of Wegerif is sometimes referred to as Anthroposophic style. Next to the dwelling house stood at that time an associated garage which has since been replaced. The protection comprises the interior and exterior of the dwelling house.

Description

Built on an irregular ground plan and constructed in brick, dwelling house covered by an expressively designed composite thatched roof with generous overhang; ridge with red frost tiles; two chimneys. North gable with cornerwise placed entrance consisting of a brick stoep; a flat canopy on one side resting on a column and provided with railing; a panel door with black border and painted panel. To the right of the door a coupled leaded glass window (lavatory). Above the canopy are the coupled six-pane windows with diagonally-paned leaded glass windows of the staircase. The northwest corner is chamfered and has a three-sided corner window with concrete corner columns and leaded glass panes with burglar bars and terrazzo underdorpels. To the left (behind the entrance) is a recessed and covered porch with window (hall) with shutters, a coupled six-pane kitchen window and to the left a panel door for the scullery. The outbuilding (scullery) has three narrow windows. The west gable contains a foundation stone: Th. Ch. Offerhaus 1923. Next to it casement doors introduced by brick archivolts with diagonal glazing bars and a round-arch fanlight. This facade section has on the upper storey over the full width cast-iron bedroom windows between cornerwise placed columns. To the right (on the ground floor) a threefold coupled window with fanlights. The south gable likewise contains a threefold coupled window with fanlights. This section was originally used as a conservatory. To the right of the conservatory two six-pane cast-iron windows with burglar bars, terrazzo underdorpels and shutters. Upper storey with twofold and threefold coupled cast-iron six-pane windows with shutters. Rear gable with on the left a wide window with side lights provided with terrazzo underdorpel and shutters, on the right a four-pane window (of the former pantry) and a coupled six-pane kitchen window with shutters. Next to the kitchen begins the outbuilding of the scullery in which a presumably later-introduced panel door with leaded glass pane. The rear roof section is on two levels provided with roof dormers (of various sizes) with casement windows.

INTERIOR: the arrangement, colour and use of materials are largely original such as the hexagonal hall with red and brown tiles; painted panel doors; geometric beam ceiling. Room (with careful detailing of partly later date as seen among other things in door surrounds and fireplace section) with visible beam ceiling with collar beams and floor ribs. Dining room (typical of the Anthroposophic style) with built-in cupboards on either side of the kitchen door; a fireplace with surround and on either side a cupboard.

Valuation

Dwelling house of cultural-historical, architectural-historical and town-planning significance on account of the socio-economic and historical-spatial development at the Westeinde; the design, use of materials and the coherence between interior and exterior as well as on account of the location within the protected townscape Westeinde. Intact and rare for regional standards.