Woonhuis, Klokhuisplein 9

English translation

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Description

Introduction

RESIDENTIAL HOUSE in the neorennaissance style from 1891, built to the design of G. Haitsma Mulier on behalf of the Enschedé family. The building is located on the corner of the Damstraat in the facade wall along the Klokhuisplein, which consists of multiple buildings that originally belonged to the Enschedé complex and which already enjoy national monument protection. (Klokhuisplein 1; 3 national monument number 19451 and Klokhuisplein 5; 7 national monument number 19452). In 1993 the rest of the Enschedé site was demolished with the exception of the buildings along the Klokhuisplein. In 1953 the building was heightened by one storey at the expense of the roof.

Description

Residential house built on a rectangular ground plan with chamfered projecting corner. The building consists of ground floor, first floor and second floor. It has a width of three window bays on the Klokhuisplein side and a width of two window bays on the Damstraat side. The chamfered corner has a width of one window bay. The building is constructed in red brickwork above a rusticated plinth in hardstone. String courses, window sills and other facade decorations such as band courses and ornamental stones are executed in sandstone. The masonry is finished off with a wooden entablature of which the frieze is decorated with among other things garlands. Above the main entrance there is a balcony resting on sandstone consoles with wooden balustrade. The main entrance contains a richly worked double panel door in a portico. The windows all have sash windows, some of which are still provided with glazing bars in the fanlights. Above the windows on the ground floor segmental arches with plastered ornamental stones. On the floor above the windows a pediment crowning. Internally a 19th-century period room from the time of construction has been preserved intact. The interior decoration, which came about in phases, is executed in a rich eclectic manner, making use of among other things neo-Louis XV and neo-Louis XVI style elements and the cellar spaces, which may originally date from the Middle Ages, are also still preserved. In the cellar spaces, partly vaulted with barrel vaults and partly provided with beam ceilings, original floor tiles, a round well, a cellar access from the Damstraat side, a masonry staircase, a ventilation hatch and white wall tiling, alternating with figurative wall tiles with representations of playing children from the original construction period. On the ground floor the hall, corridors and central hall are provided with marble floors and plinths; in the central corridor also marble wainscoting, stucco surrounds and ceiling ornaments in neo-Louis XV style; above the arched, moulded door surrounds in this corridor and the hall 'classical' portrait busts of men and women on pedestals in moulded medallions with richly worked stucco surrounds, furnished with volutes and foliage scroll, respectively stylised branches. On either side of the central hall each two richly appointed interconnected rooms, provided with wooden wainscoting and parquet floors and further executed differently. The panel doors opening onto the hall are provided on the hall side with mouldings and foliage scroll and a dark colour; in the rooms on the side of the later built-on conservatory the doors are light-coloured and provided with rosettes at the corners of the panels and with transom pieces with playing putti representations in grisaille as if they were reliefs; on either side of the broad, moulded passage a gilded laurel wreath on a worked frieze; further worked stucco ceilings. On the Damstraat side a room with among other things a marble mantelpiece, copper electric fireplace and gilded mirror, a composite ceiling with decorated cassettes around a centrally located piece executed in neo-Louis XVI manner in an oval with lozenge shape and a soffit with gilded palmette and egg-and-dart motifs. The adjoining room contains among other things a decorated cassette ceiling around a central rectangular panel with semi-circular ends and a circular central ornament. The central staircase has a wooden staircase with narrow, carved balusters and moulded handrails and a richly ornamented stucco ceiling. At the end of the side corridor the original safe door; furthermore a toilet room with floor tiles provided with geometric star patterns and wainscoting.

Valuation

The former residential house of the printer family Enschedé from 1891, with its associated 19th-century period room, is of general importance because of its cultural, architectural-historical and situational value as a (former) component of the development of the Enschedé company on the Klokhuisplein.