Kantoor

English translation

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Description

Introduction:

OFFICE BUILDING from 1923 with features of Neo-Classicism and Neo-Baroque. Built for textile manufacturer A. van der Heijden en Zoon.

The associated factory, which was demolished in the nineteen-sixties, was located on the east side of the office. The factory specialized in the spinning of knitting yarns and later also in woollen fabrics (linen). Particularly convents purchased fabrics from here.

The office building has a rectangular floor plan. The front or north facade faces the Mierloseweg. The other three facades are free-standing on the grounds. On the south side of the plot flows the river Dommel.

After the closure of the factory, the office received a new office function.

Description:

The architecture of the office building is, with the exception of the former garage entrance on the left and the bay window on the right, entirely symmetrical in design. The building has two storeys, with a mezzanine floor in the attic. A steep gabled roof with overhang and four roof turrets crown the whole. The front facade contains a narrow central and wide side risalits each with rusticated corner pilasters and topped by a gable. The horizontal wooden mouldings and wind braces give the gables, roof turrets and side facades fine pediment-like crowns. Together with the sandstone base and coping stones above the wall openings, the decorative brickwork around the oval windows of the gables, the fretwork of the central section and the granite band running around the basement, the building acquires a certain dignity. The outer walls are of machine-made brick laid in English bond. The office windows are cross windows. In the risalits windows with two vertical central mullions. In the upper windows windows with small glazing bars. The office building originally had its own car garage in the left risalit. The ellipse-arched wall openings in front and rear facades still point to this.

In the right risalit there was a servants' dwelling on the upper floor and on the ground floor the manager's office with showroom. From the bay window in front and rear facades one had a view of the entrances and exits of the building. The door in the east facade was made after the closure of the factory. The building is constructed of machine-made brick, laid in English bond. In the interior there are still various authentic components: stairwell, hall, corridor with artistic wall tiles provided with a border of brilliant blue flamed glaze; wrought-iron stair balustrade with round natural stone stair post; granito corridor floor and stair to the upper floor and manager's office/showroom both with oak wainscoting with carved garlands and door surround, in both bay windows a running oak bench and stucco ceiling with a cassette arrangement.

Valuation:

The office building is of general importance. The building has cultural-historical importance as an example of the socio-economic development of industry and as an example of the typological development of the representative factory office. It is architecturally important because of the style and ornamentation and as an example of the applied combination of building elements. The building is also important because of the integrity of its exterior and interior. It is rare because of its design and construction.