Woonhuis, Florapark 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

DOUBLE VILLA built in eclectic style in 1880-1881. The villa, which has since been converted into one large office villa, was designed by architect A.J. van Beek on commission from Samuel John Graaf van Limburg Stirum. The building is situated on the northeast side of Florapark, at the corner with Wagenweg.

Florapark was designed in 1873 by L.P. Zocher and formed part of a plan for the development and construction of Hazepatersveld. Hazepatersveld was a meadow, located between Dreef, Hazepaterslaan and Wagenweg, which shortly before 1873 had been purchased by the municipality of Haarlem from the Anabaptist congregation. The municipality of Haarlem intended to transform the meadow into a villa park and commissioned J.D. Zocher & Co., the firm of L.P. Zocher's father, to design a plan for the development and construction of Hazepatersveld.

In this development plan, which was completed in 1873, a contrast is visible between on the one hand the formal, urban design envisaged at Floraplein and Dreef and on the other hand the landscaped design of Florapark and part of Hazepaterslaan.

In total, 50 residential houses were projected in the plan. In the final execution, however, 56 would be realised, resulting in a certain densification of the original design.

First, the urban-looking eclectic development along Floraplein was realised (1876-'77), followed by the neo-Renaissance residential blocks along Dreef (1880 and 1882). Florapark and the western part of Hazepaterslaan were only built over in the period after 1880, after the park development designed in English landscape style had been completed here.

In Florapark, eight detached villas and three double villas were built in the period 1880-1892. One of these villas, located at the corner with Wagenweg, was demolished in 1939 and replaced by a school. The remaining villas, however, are still present in the park and are largely still in their original state. The park layout and plot division (no densification of the plots has taken place) are also for the most part still original. Florapark has thus retained its character as a villa park.

The boundary fences between the public road and the plots at Florapark, Dreef and Hazepaterslaan were designed in one uniform style during the development of the villa park. These original boundary fences are still present at all properties, either wholly or partly rebuilt.

N.B. The extensions dating from the second half of the 20th century on the north and east sides of the building fall outside the protection.

Description

Originally a double villa (now converted into one large villa) consisting of basement, piano nobile, first floor and attic storey. The whole is built on a rectangular ground plan and is covered by a truncated hipped roof with grey slate in overlapping courses. Dormer windows with steep gabled roofs, also covered with grey slate, are present on all sides of the roof. The building is constructed of pink calcarenite on a natural stone plinth. The details in the facades are executed in natural stone and light grey and beige calcarenite.

Between the piano nobile and the first floor, as well as between the basement and the piano nobile, a running natural stone string course is provided. Running decorative bands of natural stone and beige and grey calcarenite are also present in the facades. Particularly around the windows, at the corners of the building and in the gable, details of natural stone are present. All window sills are also of natural stone. The profiled cornice between the first floor and the roof is of wood.

The front facade of the building (west) contains six window bays, mostly with two sash windows coupled together. Only in the two southernmost window bays, both on the piano nobile and on the first floor, is there a single wooden sash window with T-glazing bar.

The second window bay from the north projects forward and is closed off by a stepped gable under an inset gabled roof, covered with grey slate. This stepped gable is constructed of pink calcarenite and worked natural stone blocks and is capped by natural stone plates that end in scrolls. At the top of the stepped gable is a natural stone lion sculpture; at the bottom of the stepped gable, at the point where the gable breaks through the cornice, two natural stone lion masks. The right window bay of the front facade also projects slightly forward and is closed off, with the also projecting left window bay of the south facade, by an octagonal corner tower. This corner tower is covered with grey slate and crowned at the top with a wrought iron decoration. In this projecting part of the west facade, at the height of the first floor, two natural stone cartouches are present as decoration. The left cartouche has fruit motifs while in the right cartouche a lion mask is depicted.

The south facade of the building has four window bays. Besides the projecting left window bay located at the corner with the west facade, the second window bay from the east side is also slightly projecting. This projecting window bay consists of four wooden sash windows coupled to each other, whereby on the first floor two of these sash windows have been replaced by one wooden T-sash window. The remaining windows in this side facade are single wooden T-sash windows, whereby the T-glazing bar continues in the fanlight. On the piano nobile one window has been altered to a wooden window with opening casements and one to a wooden sash window without a T-glazing bar.

The north facade of the building likewise has four window bays, each one window wide. The left and right window bays project slightly forward in relation to the middle section of this facade. All windows consist of wooden sash windows without a T-glazing bar. On the ground floor, a new entrance was added against the northwest side of this facade in the second half of this century.

The rear facade of the building (east), originally consisting of four window bays, is almost completely hidden behind one-and-a-half storeys high extension also from the second half of the 20th century. Only on the first floor and in the southern part of this facade also on the piano nobile are the original wooden windows still present in various forms.

The interior of the building has been largely altered and the original garden around the villa has been laid out as a car park. The villa still has the original boundary fence on the street side. This boundary fence consists of a low brick wall capped by a hardstone plinth, with above it dark green painted wrought iron ornamental railings. The boundary fence is interrupted at three places for an entrance. These entrances are marked on both sides by a dark green painted fluted iron column on a hardstone base. The Corinthian capital of the column is crowned by a gilt-painted pine cone

Valuation

Well-preserved villa with associated boundary fence of general importance on account of cultural-historical and architectural-historical value, as well as on account of ensemble value as part of the villa development in Florapark, which is valuable because of its landscaped design.