Kapsalon, Eewal 67

English translation

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Description

Introduction

BARBERSHOP WITH FLAT ABOVE, built in 1892 in neo-Renaissance style with a striking shop front, presumably to the design of architect Jurjen Bruns.

Barber Chr.W. Habekottee established himself on 17 September 1892 in this property, coming from Gouverneursplein 41. Previously a widow of a well-to-do farmer lived there, who died in January of that year. Most likely the alterations, which amounted largely to rebuilding, took place in the intervening months. The property was in use for the original function for a long time; from the 1960s a storage place for car parts. In 1978 again fitted out as a hairdressing salon and maintained in that function to this day. Shortly after this establishment, some heads stolen from the facade were found again. Replicas were made and attached to the facade. The flat above has been converted into student rooms which are in poor condition of maintenance.

Description

EXTERIOR: Built-in property on a slanted plan of two storeys and a clipped hipped roof. In front of the property a tiled pavement with a hardstone edge and (renewed) bollards with chains. The ground floor is entirely taken up by the shop front, consisting of a wide shop window with quarter-round mouldings at the top, flanked by shop door (left) and entrance door to the flat above (right) - originally no door on the right, but window of an office - set between fluted pilasters, from the intermediate toruses provided with placed-in-front round columns, resting on substantial consoles with (replicas of) bearded male heads in full relief and crowned by substantially profiled cornice. The facade of the storey is laid in reddish-brown brick and provided with bands of imitation stone and likewise arches and keystones in diamond-head form and finished with a cornice of decorative brickwork between moulded strips and fluted consoles under a profiled drip moulding. The front panel of the clipped hipped roof is covered with slate in Maas-pattern and provided with a broad dormer with large three-light window, pilasters and cornice with hoisting rail. Back facade three storeys built up and plastered; on the ground floor a broad four-light window and on both storeys two tall windows. Back building with kitchen and toilet built in the 1930s on the rear courtyard.

INTERIOR: Barbershop now an undivided room with some original interior elements, including at the front a cupboard, of which the lower part still has the panel doors and the upper part no longer has the doors; at the rear a narrow, tall fireplace in neo-Renaissance style with semicircular hood resting on heavy consoles and pilasters. The storey rooms still contain a number of original elements: on the first storey a neo-Renaissance fireplace and panel wainscoting below the windows. From the second to the third storey a seventeenth-century, or at any rate old, spiral staircase.

VALUATION

Barbershop with flat above in neo-Renaissance style of general cultural-historical and architectural-historical significance

- because of the stylistic purity of the neo-Renaissance;

- the rare, decorative, original shop front;

- the location on a monumental street, in which this property is one of the youngest enrichments.