Transport, Overtoom 373 A

English translation

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Description

Introduction

OFFICE BUILDING of the former horse tramway depot, located on the Overtoom. Built in 1877, it is located on the corner of a small street that opens onto the Overtoom. The representative side of the building, however, is situated at the rear, oriented towards the Vondelpark.

Description

The office building has a mainly rectangular floor plan with a truncated corner, is constructed of brick (Flemish bond) and has two storeys and an attic. The building has a complex hipped roof. The roof section on the street side has a wooden roof dormer under a gabled roof, and the roof section above the side elevation has two roof dormers of the same type. The roof dormers have a hoist beam in the pediment and are, where still present, flanked by carved brackets and fluted sides. The flush-fitted windows are provided with wooden drip mouldings that interrupt the surrounding cemented drip moulding. They are relieved above by one and a half brick courses in red and yellow brick. The windows with cemented drip mouldings are of this type unless otherwise stated. The street facade with the truncated corner is regarded as the front facade. This facade has three sash windows under courses on the piano nobile and in the stepped projecting gutter line twice three consoles with drip motif. These consoles are located on either side of the roof dormer. The right side elevation has a drip moulding between the storeys which steps above the two doors. Noteworthy is the presence of wing doors which are placed somewhat to the rear and are framed by a moulded, natural stone round arch which rests on two pilasters with casements. The glazed doors are each provided with a wrought iron decorative grille and are situated beneath a semi-circular fanlight with a decorative glazing bar. The door frame rests on hard stone sills. Of the same material are the drip moulding and the adjacent floor plate. The door opening is separated from the left corner by a sash window. To the right of the door are two mullioned windows, one filled with leaded glass, the other with divided fanlight. On the rectangle are two coupled mullioned sets, also beneath divided fanlights. At the level of the storey floors are wrought iron ornamental wall anchors and above the doors a course is laid diagonally as decorative brickwork in yellow brick. The windows on the piano nobile correspond to those on the ground floor. Only above the doors is there a small casement window with its own wooden drip moulding. Below the two roof dormers the stepped projecting gutter line with consoles is interrupted. The rear facade is terminated by a complex spout gable. The sloping sides of the roof sections, provided with overhanging shoulders, are interrupted by a projecting wall section that is built higher and ends in a spout gable. The moulded shoulder blocks as well as the sloping sides of the roof sections consist of natural stone. In the central axis of the facade is a mullioned set per storey with a divided fanlight. On the attic, in the aforementioned projecting wall section, an arched four-pane casement window is present.

Valuation

The office of the horse tramway depot is of general importance due to its cultural-historical value because of its place in the development history of local public transport. The office building has architectural-historical value from a typological perspective and because of the detailing of the various components. The office has ensemble value as part of the complex of the horse tramway depot on the Overtoom.