Woonhuis, Plantsoen 67

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Built in 1881 on commission of project developers C. Goedkoop and A. and F. Stokhuijzen, a TOWNHOUSE in eclectic neo-renaissance style. The house stands on the terrain (Plantsoen) transformed into a "municipal park" in 1842 after designs by city architect Salomon van der Paauw and landscape and garden architect J.D. Zocher, where until 1830 the fortification wall from Hogewoerdspoort to Koepoort that encircled the city was demolished that year. The Leiden architect W.C. Mulder was the designer. The property, oriented with its front facade on the Plantsoen (former city ramparts), is part of a closed facade wall and also forms part of the protected townscape.

Description

Raised from a rectangular ground plan, four bays wide, cellar-ed dwelling house with attic storey, covered with bullet tiles (front roof pitch) and mastic (other roof pitches), truncated hipped roof. Brick cornice-topped facade enlivened with speckle courses, with tall rising central bay, regular facade division and per storey four arched facade openings. Ashlar plinth with a right-angled cellar window beneath each window of the piano nobile. Ashlar stoep before a porch with frame irons to a 19th-century panelled door standing beneath worked half and arched fanlight with leaded glass infill. Three arched windows with profiled sills, sash windows and wooden venetian blind boxes for the windows above with leaded glass infill and keystones in the segmental arch. Between the two storeys a profiled stringcourse. Between the stringcourse and the first floor windows, balustrades with framing and spandrels, filled with polychrome glazed tiles decorated with stylized flowers. Windows like those of the piano nobile. Facade termination in the form of a profiled facade cornice and likewise profiled, interrupted eaves cornice, which rests on small consoles. Between these stepped parts of the eaves cornice stands a dormer. The setting for this is formed by two carved brackets carrying the corner pilasters connected with the keystones of the central first floor windows. The dormer is provided with an arched window with closing and setting stones, stone wing pieces with volutes, and a straight termination with neo-renaissance motif. Above this a profiled cornice with shell motif in the recessed tympanum of a curved pediment, which is crowned by a pyramid. The shoulders are provided with a ball. On either side of the dormer each an original zinc roof turret with round window and profile cornice. The wrought-iron railings of the front garden are attached to cast-iron fence posts. On the rear facade oriented towards the lower 4de Binnenvestgracht, likewise four-axial, of which the basement is provided with a flat extension. On the piano nobile four right-angled windows beneath a lintel, on the first floor three, likewise right-angled windows of comparable size and a small toilet window. The interior has been largely preserved in original condition. On the piano nobile a (draught) vestibule with a floor covered in marble, likewise walls clad in marble, a ceiling decorated with stucco and opening draught doors with decorated glazing in the doors and the divided fanlight. Hall likewise with marble floor tiles, walls clad in marble and a porcelain fountain. At the end of the corridor (4de Binnenvestgracht facade) a semicircular window with coloured leaded glass infill. The various panelled doors stand between profile cornices and above marble thresholds. Living room en suite with panelled sliding doors, stuccoed coffered ceilings and two fireplaces of black marble. The kitchen in this storey is from the 1930s and provided with a granito worktop above built-in kitchen units. In the corridor of the first floor still original closing hardware on the six panelled doors with profile framing, a porcelain fountain and a toilet with old tiling. Some rooms are also here still provided with a fireplace of black marble and a coffered stucco ceiling with profiles of wood and plaster. In the stairwell a shell-pattern staircase with landings, a carved staircase newel and wooden handrail on cast-iron balusters, marbled wall cladding beneath the staircase handrail and a light shaft with at the first landing a semicircular staircase light with etched glass. Original staircase to the attic storey with marbled wall cladding beneath the profiled handrail. Basement with largely original kitchen installation with granito worktop and kitchen cupboards.

Valuation

The townhouse dating from 1881, in eclectic neo-renaissance style, is of general importance for its cultural and architectural-historical value as an internally and externally well-preserved and representative example of residential construction for the wealthy from the building period in question; also of importance as a characteristic design from the oeuvre of arch. W.C. Mulder and for its ensemble value with the adjoining buildings designed by the same architect on the Plantsoen.