Industrie, Neerstraat 34

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Shop premises with residential building from 1898-1900, extending over three storeys plus an attic storey, constructed in red pressed brick and decorated in a regular manner with grey natural stone (flat and diamond-pointed). The building has two barrel-vaulted cellars which are estimated to date from the 17th century.

Description

Shop front with glass, upright and rail framework featuring centrally placed double, recessed wooden entrance door with large display windows on either side which are divided into quarters at the top by means of small wooden arches and filled with leadlight glass. Above the double shop door stands the name "CILLEKENS". The front has a hardstone profiled plinth in which there are two pairs of openings for the cellars; two cast iron columns mark the entrance. The symmetry of the front is only "denied" on the right side by the residential entrance: a double wooden door with divided fanlight. In the frieze between the front and the storey, between double natural stone consoles, are the texts "IRONWARE - N.V. CILLEKENS-DREESSENS - TOOLS". The second and third storeys each have five (window) bays, the right one on the first storey is executed as a balcony and has a wrought iron balustrade and a hardstone tympanum. From the third storey, the even window bays are carried up as Flemish gables to above the roof edge. The roof covering is laid with artificial slate (bitumen); otherwise the roof is flat. Brick rear facade consisting of a recessed and a projecting facade section, both at the height of three storeys and the width of two bays; the windows executed as T-windows - with the exception of a wide six-part window on the ground floor - and arched, outlined with fresh red brick, the sills of natural stone, the sloping roof covered with red barrel tiles. Internally, the residential/shop building has the original building structure including corridors, landings and rooms, wall cupboards, light shaft with light cupola executed in coloured leadlight glass, stairwells and a kitchen with Bruynzeel built-in furniture as well as detailing, finishing and ornamentation including floors with tiles and terrazzo floors, wallpaper, stuccowork (consoles, cornices, rosettes), marble fireplaces. In the shop, tall, slender cast iron columns.

Appreciation

The shop premises with residential building "Cillekens" from 1898-1900 is of general importance because it has retained its main form, building structure and detailing and thus constitutes a fascinating document of the living and working of successive generations of successful shopkeepers from - broadly speaking - the first half of the twentieth century, which also has significance for the history of housing and can be regarded as a fully-fledged chapter in the history of small and medium-sized business, particularly as various components of commerce (supply, production, assembly and distribution) are legible in and on the building. From an architectural and building-historical perspective, "Cillekens" distinguishes itself by a high degree of integrity in construction, materials and ornament, for example in the use of cast iron columns and terrazzo and in the presence of old barrel-vaulted cellars. Within the ensemble of Neerstraat, "Cillekens" provides a stylistically powerful and recognisable front facade which can be appreciated both as an independent element and as a structuring part of the street and of the protected townscape of Roermond.