Overdamme

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Detached villa called Overdamme, built in 1913 to a design by Goethals; in Berlage style.

Description

Villa on L-shaped ground plan with various extensions, two storeys and a roof storey high. Cubic building masses built up in reddish-brown brick. Hipped roof with hip-and-valley rafters.

All around far-projecting profiled eaves line on profiled, slender consoles. All window frames, windows, doors of wood; all windows with small glazing bars.

North facade with among other things entrance section with rounded arch-shaped canopy, supported on double wooden consoles. In niche two entrance doors. Above entrance section gable stone with name of the villa and building year. Right and left of entrance sash windows with glazing bars. On first floor likewise two sash windows and in centre smaller window. Two dormers at unequal heights.

Extension to the right of this facade is on ground floor provided with two large sash windows. On first floor small round window with glazing bars and small casement window. Right part of extension comprises only a ground floor with flat roof, provided with sash window and oval-shaped window and closed by a parapet. On first floor doors to the flat roof. West facade with on the left the one-storey-high extension with parapet provided with an oval-shaped window and a rectangular window, with heavy mullion and intermediate transom. Next to it wooden door with fanlight and on right side directly adjoining wooden sash window. Rectangular oriel extension with sash windows on the sides and on the front double terrace door with glazing and fanlight with glazing bars with oval shapes in centre. To the right of oriel sash window and to the right of this rounded arch-shaped wall opening with in centre terrace doors and rounded side and fanlights; in fanlights oval-shaped glazing bars. On the facade corner gemstone, half-high pilaster. On first floor of west facade various sash windows, and oriel extension with hip-and-valley rafters; right, above the above-described rounded arch-shaped wall opening, a corner loggia filled with windows provided with columns.

South facade with on the left on ground floor gemstone, half-high pilaster on the corner; rounded arch-shaped wall opening with windows and rounded side and fanlights; in fanlights oval-shaped glazing bars (same as west facade). Rectangular oriel extension provided with closed, gemstone parapet with sash windows on side and front; centrally in front a double terrace door with glazing and fanlight with glazing bars with oval shapes in centre. To the right of oriel sash windows. On first floor on the left the corner loggia filled with windows provided with columns (same as west facade).

To the right of it balcony (roof of oriel) with terrace doors with side and fanlights, breaking through the cornice rounded top gable with oval-shaped window and small hip-and-valley rafters. East facade on ground floor and first floor four sash windows.

Dormer with three windows, of which middle rounded arch-shaped closed; rounded arch form continuing in eaves line of dormer.

Hipped roof with hip-and-valley rafters, covered with slate in Maas bond.

In the interior among other things some stucco ceilings and fireplaces.

Evaluation

Villa, of architectural-historical importance, of ensemble value and of importance due to integrity.