Woonhuis, Delftsekade 30

English translation

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Description

Introduction

RESIDENCE built in 1902 to a design by A. Romeyn and executed in Transitional Architecture.

Description

Residence of two storeys on an approximately square plan under a truncated hipped roof clad with black clay roof tiles. The attached coach house of two storeys has a flat roof. The facades are built in red brick in a crossing bond. The front facade of the residence is richly decorated with arches and arch friezes in orange facing brick. The windows have right-angled fanlights with leaded glass.

The symmetrical five-bay truncated front facade (north) is horizontally articulated with a plastered plinth and reveals, and natural stone moulded drip mouldings. A decorative brick cornice with wooden cladding and four brick pilasters forms the facade termination. The pilasters are crowned on four sides by natural stone pediment-shaped ornaments. In the central axis a wooden door under a two-pane fanlight with leaded glass and above it a balcony on richly ornamented consoles. Balcony doors with leaded glass fanlight under a segmental arch of orange facing brick with white plastered abutment and keystone. Simple wrought iron balcony railing. On either side of the entrance two windows under segmental arches of orange facing brick with white plastered abutment and keystone. The tympana above the windows are filled with brick mosaics of red and orange stone. The first-floor windows on either side of the balcony are framed by a rising segmental arch frieze of orange facing brick with white plastered keystone. Below the first-floor windows rectangular brick panels. Directly above the balcony a small brick roof dormer under a small gabled roof with round blind opening bearing the date 1902 under a gabled roof. In the east facade two windows and in the west facade one window. On the rear facade (south) a flat-topped later (1920s) extension with double glass door and upper and side lights. On the roof two brick chimneys. The plastered plinth and the reveals of the residence continue via the side facades into the front facade of the coach house. The front facade of the COACH HOUSE is terminated by a horizontal cornice with brick pilasters crowned by saddle-back coping. On the ground floor a double clamped segmental carriage entrance door with decorative cast iron grilles under a brick segmental arch with white plastered abutment and keystone. First-floor storey with clamped shutter under segmental arch between two cast iron roosting windows. In the rear facade a new large window and a clamped door. In the corner with the cheese warehouse a low flat-topped extension.

Valuation

The residence with coach house is of general importance for its cultural-historical value due to the functional relationship with the adjacent cheese warehouse. The residence with coach house is of general importance for its architectural-historical value as a characteristic example of richly detailed Transitional Architecture, a movement in young Dutch architecture, and for the high degree of integrity in principal form, material use and detailing. The residence with coach house is of urban design importance for its highly distinctive setting on the Delftsekade in the core of Leidschendam. The high ensemble value is determined by the spatial relationship with the adjacent cheese warehouse.