Woonhuis, Florapark 5

English translation

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Description

Introduction

A DETACHED VILLA in neo-renaissance style built in 1888. The villa, located on the south-east side of Florapark, was designed by architect F.G. Haitsma Mulier on commission of Mrs Anna Elisabeth Prins-Crommelin. The building is currently (1993) in use as office space.

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

In this development plan, which was completed in 1873, a contrast is visible between on the one hand the formal, urban layout as conceived for Floraplein and the Dreef and on the other hand the landscape layout of Florapark and part of Hazepaterslaan.

In total, 50 residential buildings were projected in the plan. However, in the final execution, 56 would be realized, resulting in a certain densification of the original design.

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

In Florapark, eight detached villas and three double villas were built during 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 for the most part remain in original condition. The park layout and the plot subdivision (no densification of the plots has taken place) are also largely original. Florapark has thereby retained its appearance 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 at the establishment of the villa park. These original boundary fences are still present at all buildings, whether or not partly rebuilt.

Description

Detached villa consisting of basement, raised ground floor, first floor and attic storey. The whole is built on a floor plan that is rectangular in main form and is covered by a hipped roof clad with grey shingles. In the northern and eastern roof slope there are respectively one and three original roof dormers. These roof dormers are covered by a wide profiled wooden cornice with a wooden pediment. The building is constructed in red brick on a wide rusticated natural stone plinth at the level of the basement. The detailing in the facades is a combination of wood, natural stone and plasterwork. Between the different storeys, continuous horizontal profiled cordon mouldings have been applied. Between the basement and the raised ground floor this cordon moulding is of natural stone (in line with the natural stone plinth here), between the raised ground floor and the first floor of wood and between the first floor and attic storey of plasterwork. Continuous horizontal bands of plasterwork have also been applied to the facades. Between the plastered cordon moulding above the first floor and the wooden continuous cornice along the eaves, there is a band around the building with decorative ornaments in plasterwork. The corners of the facades are decorated with rusticated corner strips.

The front facade (west) consists of three bays. The middle bay is slightly projecting and is terminated above the cornice by a neck gable decorated with neo-renaissance motifs in a combination of natural stone, plasterwork and wood. This middle bay, which on the first floor is decorated with four plastered fluted pilasters, is extended at the level of the raised ground floor with a three-sided brick bay window with basement. This one-and-a-half storey high bay window is covered by a balcony with natural stone balustrade. The windows in the front facade are all wooden sash windows, with the exception of the sliding wooden doors with glazed panels on the first floor. In the neck gable there are three narrow coupled wooden sash windows. The richly detailed window surrounds are a combination of natural stone and plasterwork, with the windows on the first floor being topped by a pediment and the windows on the raised ground floor by a cornice supported by consoles.

The south facade of the building is two bays wide. The left, slightly projecting, bay has one window arrangement consisting of wooden sash windows. The left bay has a one-and-a-half storey high wooden bay window on a natural stone rusticated plinth, in which the basement is situated. The bay window is covered by a hipped glass roof. Above the bay window there is a wooden sash window on the first floor. In this facade too the windows are topped by a pediment (first floor) or by a cornice supported by consoles (raised ground floor) in a combination of plasterwork and natural stone.

The north facade of the building is three bays wide. In the middle, slightly projecting, bay is the recessed entrance consisting of a wooden front door with glazed fanlight. The entrance is accessible by means of a natural stone flight of eight steps. Furthermore, there are five wooden sash windows in this facade. The windows in the two outer bays are topped on the first floor by a pediment executed in plasterwork and natural stone. The remaining windows are topped by a cornice, also consisting of a combination of natural stone and plasterwork, supported by consoles.

The rear facade of the building (east) is three bays wide. The rear facade contains among other things wooden sash windows under brick lintels with plastered keystones. The wide middle bay has double casement wooden windows. This middle bay has a basement entrance at the level of the basement. Along the right bay there is a one-and-a-half storey high original brick extension on a natural stone plinth. This extension, located under a flat roof, has a wide band of grey-painted rusticated plasterwork just above the natural stone plinth.

The interior of the building has been partly altered while the original garden around the villa is still partly intact. The villa has the original boundary fence on the street side. This boundary fence consists of a low brick wall topped by a hardstone plinth, with above it dark green painted wrought-iron decorative fencing. The boundary fence is interrupted in two places for an entrance. These entrances consist of double sliding iron gates which are marked on either side by a dark green painted fluted iron column on a hardstone base. The Corinthian capital of the column is crowned by a pine cone painted in dark green or gold colour.

Valuation

Well-preserved villa with associated boundary fence of general importance due to architectural and cultural-historical value, as well as due to ensemble value as part of the villa development in Florapark, which is valuable due to its landscape layout.