Woonhuis, Lieve Vrouwenplein 7

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION, in eclectic style. The ground floor from the eighteenth or early nineteenth century was raised by one storey around 1860-1870, extended around 1890-1900 with a right-angled extension at the rear and around 1910-1920 provided with a garden room. Markedly situated opposite the Crucifix monastery Lievevrouweplein 2-4.

Description

Two-storey plastered mansion with a facade plastered in Flemish bond of six bays on a plinth with cassette ornamentation. T-windows with stucco moulding, on the upper storey provided with hood and window pediment. The entrance with recessed door with Art Deco motifs. Cornice line under the windows of the upper storey. Above the entrance balcony with wrought-iron fence resting on volute corbels. The balcony door with leaded glass and etched glass. The cornice has volute corbels. The side facades have T-windows with stucco moulding. Hipped roof with corner chimneys with smoke cap, covered with tuile du nord tiles. Stoep and fence with chains between sandstone posts. Right-angled extension under gabled roof from c. 1910, with lacing courses and arched windows, raised somewhat c. 1960 and the adjoining garden room under hipped roof.

Internally two cellars, one with barrel vault under the front house, dating from the oldest building phase, one with troughs in neat brickwork on iron profiles under the right-angled kitchen extension. There is a central corridor, continuing into the extension of c. 1900. Stucco ceilings with rich detailing and on the garden side double doors with etched glass. In the left and right front room, in the study and the bedrooms above rich stucco ceilings with among others vines, festoons, fruit baskets, putti and birds with nests. Below in the oldest part of the house broad panel doors from the oldest building phase. On the division between front and rear house a staircase hall with staircase with balusters. In the right room an early 19th-century chimneypiece mantel with festoons in white and black marble. Above and in the rear passage below narrower and richer panel doors. In the garden room a simple stucco ceiling with floral motifs.

The roof truss structure consists of four, partly reused roof trusses with triangular braces from the oldest building phase, with hacked marks and carpenters' marks.

Spaciousand deep garden.

Valuation

The mansion is of general importance. It has cultural-historical importance as a particular expression of socio-economic development, namely the establishment and alteration of dwellings in the existing village character; it is also important as an example of the typological development of the dwelling house. The object is of architectural-historical importance through the style and rich detailing, especially of the interior, and has building-historical importance through the coherent building history. The house is important because of the architectural integrity of the exterior and interior. It is important because of the architectural-historical, constructional and typological rarity.