Woonhuis, Laag Boskoop 123

English translation

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Description

Introduction

VILLA, in a Transitional style with elements from the Chalet style and Art Nouveau, designed by architect J. Koerts in 1914. In the interior, special Art Nouveau elements have been preserved. The rear facade has been modified because the original veranda has been removed. The Oegstgeest roof tiles of the oriel against the side facade have meanwhile been replaced by bituminous roofing. The villa is visually defining situated at the Vliet and Trekvaart, in the countryside of Boskoop.

Description

The villa with cellar is constructed over two storeys under a complex hipped roof with projecting gutter on brackets, red tuile-du-Nord tiles, brick chimneys and ceramic finials. Through various projecting sections, oriels and balconies, the house has acquired an asymmetrical and irregular appearance. The facades are constructed in red facing brick above a hard stone plinth. Tight-closing windows with leaded light fanlights articulate the facades. Below the windows hard stone drip mouldings, above the windows lintels with simple reliefs. On the ground floor hard stone parapets below the windows. The facades are further decorated by band courses of small patterned tiles and simple timber-framing directly below the gutter. The front facade (south) consists of a strongly projecting left section (southwest), with a narrower window axis to the right in which the entrance is situated. The entrance is a tight-closing wooden panelled door with an eight-light window, surrounded by side- and fanlights with leaded light, under a round arch with plastered keystone and springer stones. A hard stone step of two treads before the entrance. Above the front door a narrow window and an oblique loggia with a wooden column, hard stone balustrade and iron railings, under brick quarter-arches with keystone and springer stones. The projecting section is on the ground floor provided with an oriel with curved side facades, under a balcony with a hard stone balustrade. Central in the oriel a double door. In front of the double door two hard stone treads with two corner stones ending in a stone column on either side. Opening onto the balcony a complex window with double balcony door. The projecting section is constructed a half storey higher than the rest of the villa. In the mezzanine a two-part window with fanlights protrudes through the gutter. Against the left side facade (west) over almost the entire width a conservatory with truncated hipped roof has been built. On the conservatory a balcony, under a hipped roof on wooden brackets with Art Nouveau-related balcony railings between them. Above the balcony roof the left part of the facade is constructed under a half-hipped roof with half-hip end. On the ground floor to the right in the rear facade (north) a large complex window with a double glass door, which opened onto the veranda. The right side facade (east) is provided with leaded light stair lights that follow the line of the stair. Interior In the interior of the villa all components are designed in a style related to Art Nouveau. The following components have among others been preserved: the hall and a draught vestibule with a double draught door with etched glass by J. Broere from Rotterdam, granito floors with mosaic, panelled doors, a wooden staircase rail and stair railing, a tiled wainscoting and toilet with metro tiles and a 'wainscoting' of dark paintwork. The suite room has a wooden floor, suite doors with cut glass in a glazing bar pattern, stucco ceilings, marble chimneypieces, glass doors to the conservatory and granito on the conservatory floor. Also on the upper floor stucco ceilings and marble chimneypieces.

Valuation

The property is of general importance because of its architectural and cultural-historical value as an example of a villa executed in Transitional style with elements from the Chalet style and Art Nouveau and with interior components related to Art Nouveau. Thanks to the visually defining position of the house at the Vliet and Trekvaart the property is of great value from a townscape perspective. The exterior is in good condition, of the interior many components have been well preserved.