De Sprenck

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Large, detached villa. Design concept and structure with 19th-century characteristics, with Berlage and Art Nouveau influences in detailing and finish.

Description

The villa has a rectangular floor plan with two projecting sections on the front facade and one on the left side facade; a ground floor, a first storey and a substantial roof storey, partially cellaraged. Facades built of red machine-made brickwork, provided with cut joints. Relieving arches mostly in yellow brickwork with limestone setting pieces; joints of the arches coloured red. Cornice on profiled brackets, beneath which a roll course of yellow brickwork has been applied. Natural stone sections mostly executed in French limestone.

The roof comprises a hipped roof with flat section provided with cross roof structures over the projecting facade sections. The staircase section on the rear facade is carried up to flat roof level. The sloping roof planes are covered with blue glazed tuile du nord tiles. Small wooden roof dormers with 6-pane windows. Front facade with recessed central section with veranda and balcony, flanked by two higher corner sections with gabled tops which are provided with timber-framing top infill. Right corner section with original 5-faceted bay with zinc-clad hipped roof on which a balcony sits.

The originally 5-faceted bay against the left corner section has been enlarged to a rectangular one with partial reuse of original glazing and floor plan; original glazing bars in both bays removed.

Facade glazing frames single and composite with sash windows in which largely original glazing bars remain in upper and lower sashes.

Door sections mostly replaced or altered. In the gabled tops the glazing frames are incorporated as part of the timber-framing and provided with a 6-pane fanlight; the original sliding doors to the veranda have been replaced by a fixed frame. The supporting beam of the roof overhang above the balcony is supported by profiled keystones.

Left side facade with on the left a projecting corner section with bay on the storey and gabled top provided with gabled roof with half-hipped end. Single wooden window frames with sash windows with glazing bars in the upper sashes; upper storey bay with timber-framing parapet with masonry infill. Profiled frames, single-pane lower sashes; fanlights with glazing bars provided with yellow cathedral glass. At the corner between corner section and facade plane is located the entrance section above which a covered balcony on limestone (insofar as original) corner column and pilasters, connected to each other by arches.

Underside of balcony executed as brick cross vault; balcony roof on limestone columns/half-columns, natural stone balustrade; base and capital with leaf motif. Entrance with 18-pane fanlight separated by limestone edge of the door, door with 8-pane upper section and 3-panel lower section. Limestone commemorative stone with inscription: "april 1904, H.L. Boogaert ....". Partly adapted for disabled users hardstone entrance step; stoop with tile floor.

On the left facade the only remaining chimney (of 4 original), slightly built out; original termination has been removed.

Right side facade: nearly symmetrical in layout around a simple, masoned upper storey bay on limestone consoles. Single frames with sash windows with fine glazing bars in the upper sashes; two, slightly built-out chimneys, topped off at gutter height.

Rear facade asymmetrical with raised staircase section with leaded glass windows with floral motifs to designs by C.A. Goethals and executed by "Het Prinsenhof" in Delft. Furthermore on the storey single and composite wooden glazing frames with largely original glazing bars. Left window section originally contained the door to the balcony on a bay which has been removed in connection with the construction of the office extension.

The facade openings on the ground floor date almost entirely from 1985.

The raised facade section is closed off by a masoned balustrade in yellow and red brickwork.

In the interior, amongst others the layouts of the ground floor and the storey are in virtually original condition. The rooms are situated around the central hall and the staircase. The walls are mostly austere from the start or stripped of the original wainscoting. Ceilings (insofar as not a dropped ceiling) partly executed in plaster with painted linen panels on which floral and some animal motifs; partly as painted composite beam ceilings: in the veranda room and in the central hall and landing. Some original interior doors with profiled frame work are still present. Various fireplaces, mostly executed with Art Nouveau motifs and provided with marble mantels. The veranda room possesses amongst others a neo-sixteenth-century chimneypiece, in analogy with the original room finish.

The staircase in the central staircase is executed as a flight of steps with profiled steps, newel, brackets; wainscoting with panels. Original floor covering/finish no longer present. The roof is executed as a pine beam roof.

Valuation Villa of general importance for cultural-historical and architectural-historical values and as the most important and defining component of the complex.