Woonhuis, Willemskade 12

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION dating from circa 1875, currently in use as a care facility, externally in a restrained and well-preserved Eclectic style, internally with an authentic interior, largely in a restrained Art Deco style.

After the southern city fortifications were dismantled and landscaped in the 1840s, the southern urban edge has been completely reorganised since the late 1860s. The city moat was straightened and on both sides wharfs were created onto which spacious building plots were laid out, which were mostly built with mansions. A virtually continuous development of buildings of mostly two storeys and a width of three to five bays was created during the last decades of the nineteenth century. The mansion is built immediately next to the corner plot of the newly cleared Prins Hendrikstraat.

Description EXTERIOR: Block-shaped building on an almost square ground plan five bays wide and two storeys and an abbreviated hipped roof in height. The building is approached symmetrically, which can be read from the facade. In front of the building lies a hardstone step with ornate wrought-iron railings and on the left a level for the basement. The facade has a hardstone plinth, topped by a projecting hardstone sill. Under the left wing a basement clad in hardstone with horizontal windows. Otherwise greyish-brown brickwork. On the corners pilasters of plaster, below blocked, above with recessed fields and crowned by corner stones on consoles. On the transition from first to second storey a flat frieze, combined with the continuous projecting sill. The facade is finished with a largely flat cornice with triglyphs above the centre section. All wall openings are arched; the windows are fitted with T-windows and covered by simple decorative hood moulds. The entrance section stands in a plastered field and is framed with a fanlight and fitted with a hood moulding. Door not original. Above it the window is framed and provided with a small hood moulding. Against the plastered field between door and centre window a balcony with doors opening into the wall opening stood until the late 1930s. In the middle of the abbreviated hipped roof with flat, blue glazed Frisian tiles stands a large dormer with three-light window, fluted pilasters and a three-sided pediment.

INTERIOR: The building was almost entirely rebuilt around 1930 with restrained Art Deco features, presumably without violating the original layout. There are also still some traces from the building period (c. 1875) present. The ground floor has a layout of drawing rooms on either side of the central corridor with large round-arched doors beyond the centre and slightly offset relative to each other leading to the stairwell and to the basement. The corridor has large white marble tiles and is entirely wainscoted in marble, in the hall bevelled with beige marble. After the entrance vestibule a glazed draught screen between stiles and rails: door with side lights and a semicircular fanlight with small glazing bars. Garden door with glass with small glazing bars and fanlight with leaded glass in Art Deco forms. The stair descent to the basement and the small room below is also entirely clad in marble. The right front drawing room has a coffered ceiling, low panel wainscoting, panelled door, recessed window seats, a simple marble fireplace with bordered mantel and cupboards on either side of a niche in the rear wall. The left front drawing room has similar furnishings, but no wainscoting and cupboards with a wide upper niche in the entire rear wall. All woodwork is left unpainted and varnished. On the left side, a small connecting room with a safe is followed by an office space entirely fitted out with unpainted and varnished mahogany. A cupboard wall with doors provided with simple leaded glass; otherwise high wainscoting and flat ceiling. The rear space on the right is the spacious kitchen, whose walls are partly tiled high up. Bruynzeel kitchen and substantial loose kitchen cabinet with glass doors with small glazing bars. Wide staircase in two flights with intermediate landing; stair balusters in rounded forms with small bead mouldings. The stairwell is lit from above by a large fanlight with leaded glass in Art Deco.

On the first floor the front drawing room on the right, three window bays wide, has a simple, clean interior. Between this drawing room and the stairwell the access to the attic behind a door. Behind on the right an L-shaped room which opens toward the garden almost entirely with windows. On the left side there are drawing rooms en suite. Suite doors with simple leaded glass and side cupboards, in both drawing rooms flanked by wall cupboards, below closed and above with leaded glass doors. In the front drawing room painted, in the rear drawing room with wood imitation. In the front drawing room a bright red and in the rear drawing room a black (with beige edging) marble fireplace in Art Deco. The front drawing room has a stuccoed ceiling in the form of shallow coffers, in the rear drawing room a ceiling with tie beams and secondary tie beams on consoles. The rear drawing room opens with windows and glass doors onto a balcony the full width. On the attic floor around a landing with Art Deco fanlight a large number of rooms, some with built-in beds, are arranged. The walls of the stair passage and landing are panelled; doors and other timberwork are left unpainted and varnished. Bathroom tiled and windows with leaded glass in Art Deco.

VALUATION

Mansion of general architectural-historical and urban planning significance because of

- the externally well-preserved and stylistically pure Eclectic style and internally with stylistically pure restrained Art Deco style elements;

- the prominent location near a corner in the ensemble of continuous canal wall development of mansions in the southern urban expansion.