Groeneveldstichting

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former minister's residence, forming part of the Groeneveld Foundation, originally built in richly executed eclectic neo-Renaissance style, but for the new function - with porter's residence and regents' room - rebuilt in 1882 after a design by W.F. van der Heijden.

Description

Constructed from an almost rectangular floor plan, former townhouse with upper storey under a transverse hipped roof covered with Dutch tiles - with a longer roof panel to the rear - and a brick chimney on the left on the flat roof section. Richly ornamented three-bay front facade built in brick with slightly projecting entrance bay, rectangular openings and accents and decorations of plastered brick (banding courses, corner blocks and pilasters) above a sandstone plinth with rusticated top. On the ground floor two pairs of coupled sash windows under a segmental arch with relief-carved, bearded heads in the keystones and brick mosaics in the arch barrels.

Entrance area with double wooden doors under a moulded calf and fanlight with a frieze of wrought-iron ornamental elements. Entrance surround with pilasters resting on sandstone pedestals with Ionic capitals. In the tympanum above the entrance a shield with the text "Stichting Groeneveld 1882" between gilded branches in relief.

On either side a relief with gilded cherub's head with wings. The surround is crowned by a slightly arched, moulded cornice with in the centre a connecting piece to the cordon line. Symmetrical decorations between the moulded edges of the cordon line. The upper edge also functions as a drip moulding for the upper storey windows. The windows are like those on the ground floor, but stand here under straight arches with setting and keystone courses. The window in the risalit stands between two partly fluted pilasters with Composite capitals.

Facade termination in the form of an entablature, consisting of a moulded architrave connected with the Composite capitals and the reliefs in the keystones, a frieze with brick mosaics executed in a block pattern above the windows and an equally moulded cornice. A brick lucarne with a cross window projects from the roof panel above the risalit, between pilasters crowned with maidens' heads with wing pieces and a main cornice with regula and guttae on a broken pediment with a gilded lion's head and a wrought-iron monogram within the moulded framework. Rear facade with on the ground floor a double glazed door with rounded arch in a fanlight above worked calf. To the right of the door a nine-pane window placed fairly high in the facade under straight arch, as well as the double door under straight arch with keystone and setting courses. To the right, against the extension a small window. A third window is located in the open left part of the extension. On the upper storey two T-windows under roller arch, as well as two small windows. Facade termination in the form of a simple, white-painted main cornice with moulded gutter line. At right angles to the aforementioned facade a single-storey extension with four lightly arched openings - three doors and a window with diagonal glazing bars - under a lean-to roof covered with Dutch tiles, of which the left part is uncovered. The southern gable end is blank. The courtyard can be reached via the entrance to the house, behind which is a passage portal, which is provided with large sandstone floor tiles, a plastered wall with false joints and a double glazed door. In this portal is also the entrance to the porter's residence and the regents' room. Interior with on the ground floor the porter's residence. In the living room a marble fireplace, black marble floor tiles in the hallway, red and ochre-yellow tiles in a checkerboard pattern in the kitchen and doors with moulded profiles. Staircase to the upper storey with wooden handrail on cast-iron balusters. On the upper storey the regents' room, provided with a marble fireplace with a white-painted breast, richly ornamented stucco ceiling, tiled walls and an original door with moulded profile. Attic with a wooden roof truss structure with parallel rafter members on one side.

Valuation

Former minister's residence with associated components, part of the complex of the Groeneveld Foundation, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value, as an internally and externally well-preserved example of a main building of a late 19th-century courtyard housing complex with richly executed detailing characteristic of the building period and function. Furthermore of importance because of ensemble value because of the historical-functional relationship with the courtyard dwellings situated in the rear garden as well as because of its image-defining situation on the Oude Vest.