Woonhuis, Plantsoen 43

English translation

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Description

Introduction

In 1881, built on behalf of project developers C. Goedkoop and A. and F. Stokhuijzen, a GENTLEMAN'S HOUSE. The house stands on the terrain (Plantsoen) which in 1842 was transformed into a "city park" according to a design by city architect Salomon van der Paauw and landscape and garden architect J.D. Zocher, where until 1830 the rampart wall from Hogewoerdspoort to Koepoort enclosed the city. The Leiden architect W.C. Mulder was the designer of this house, the rear of which possesses an additional storey at the lower-lying 4de Binnenvestgracht. The gentleman's house is built in an eclectic architectural style. The building, oriented with its front facade onto the Plantsoen (former city ramparts), is part of a closed facade wall and is also part of the protected townscape.

N.B. The house had a function as a hotel with the name 'Parkzicht' in the seventies and eighties, of which the adjoining properties Plantsoen 41 and 45 also formed part and with which it was internally connected.

Description

Built from a virtually rectangular ground plan, three bays wide, residential house with basement, principal floor and one storey under transverse, truncated hipped roof. Symmetrical brick cornice-topped facade with high-rising, plastered central bay, moulded belt course and per storey three facade openings with coupled window arrangements on either side. The facade corners are accentuated by fluted corner pilasters with Ionic capitals on the ground floor and composite capitals on the first floor. High ashlar plinth with on either side of the entrance two arched basement windows. Before the slightly projecting central bay a ashlar stoop with on either side of the landing a likewise ashlar parapet. Double door with ornamental ironwork under a moulded lintel and round-arched fanlight with moulded frame. The entrance arrangement is flanked by two Ionic columns with festoons, above which an architrave and balustrade of a French balcony. Above the central balcony a curved pediment with crest; on either side on the first floor coupled sash windows with balustrade, moulded frame and broken pediment. The corniced cornice contains block-shaped consoles; in the centre a roof dormer with richly ornamented frame and fantasy pediment. On the 4de Binnenvestgracht oriented rear side, provided with simple, symmetrical facade above an added extension. In the storey above this a round-arched window with leaded glass filling and two straight-sided windows with sash window under moulding. On the storey above this two likewise under-moulding six-paned windows, between which a small (toilet) windowpane. The interior is still in part in original condition. Entrance portal with stucco ceiling, floor and wall cladding of marble slabs, folding draught doors with decorated glass in the fanlight. In the hall likewise with marble-covered and clad floor and walls, the original panelled doors within moulded frames and at the end of the hall (facade 4de Binnenvestgracht) a round-arched window filled with colourful leaded glass. In the rooms on the first floor still a few stucco ceilings and half a dozen panelled doors facing the hall such as those on the principal floor, provided with original locking mechanisms. Stairwell with light shaft and landings between the narrow stairs. Substantial carved stairpost and moulded wooden handrail on cast iron balusters. At the first landing a round-arched stair light with etched glass. Under the stair railings on the masonry the wall cladding consists partly of marble slabs (the lower stair sections) and partly of marbled wall panelling (the higher stair sections). In the basement the largely original kitchen with wooden chimney breast, kitchen cupboards, and a low granite countertop above the kitchen cupboards. Here too the original panelled doors within moulded frame. In several rooms of the house the marble chimney breasts have been preserved.

Valuation

Gentleman's house dating from 1881 of general significance due to cultural and architectural historical value as an inside and outside substantially well-preserved and representative example of a late nineteenth-century residential house for the well-to-do in the eclectic style characteristic of the building period and function with richly executed detailing in which elements from neo-Dutch and neo-French Renaissance as well as neo-Baroque are combined. The house is also of importance as an image-defining component of the development along the Plantsoen.