Handel en kantoor, Wirdumerdijk 31

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Description

Introduction

SHOP BUILDING WITH FLAT ABOVE, entirely newly built in 1874 in Eclectic style to a design by architect Jurjen Bruns, provided around 1905 with a new shopfront in Renovation style.

Description Introduction

Most of the buildings on the Wirdumerdijk were renovated in the last decades of the nineteenth century into shop buildings mostly in simple Eclectic style, of which number 31 is certainly one of the most decorative. With the exception of the building on the left side, none of these shop buildings retains its original shopfront; the building in question does not either. In 1904 butcher's shop Kessler established itself in the building and then the shopfront will have acquired the characteristic glazed appearance that is distinctive of butchers, fish and dairy shops. Like the former butcher's shop at Breedstraat 44, also built in 1904, the alteration of this shop can be attributed to Hero or Zijtze Siewert Feddema. In 1934 this shop underwent further internal alterations - under the architecture of Nieuwland and Van der Vegte at the Schrans near Leeuwarden - whereby an automated section appeared on the corner, in the front part the delicatessen department and behind the butchery. After the Second World War a fishmonger's was established there; currently it is a magazine shop.

EXTERIOR: Building situated on the corner of the Ayttasteeg, entirely newly built in 1874; ground plan at rear and side rectangular with an oblique front facade standing in the building line. Three full storeys high with a half-hipped roof. Front facade three window bays wide and side elevation six niches and windows deep. The storeys built of brown manganese brick. Between the second and third storeys a combined string course and sill band. Cornice with panel fields between paired consoles decorated with acanthus ornament supporting the moulded gutter with gathering pans at the corners. On the side elevation a simple edged gutter. Arched closed sash windows on continuous sill bands and around the fanlights heavy, moulded, coupled moulded plaster 'eyebrows' with garlands and cresting. The niches and windows in the side elevation are closed rectangular, the niches furnished with rustic stucco. Truncated and edged above half-hipped roof with glazed flat Frisian tiles. On the front pitch a simply framed, slightly arched roof dormer. On the side elevation an element projecting above the roof with hoist rope. Shopfront in horizontal bands of white and green glazed brick, on the reveals with a beading profile, on a moulded sandstone basement. Originally the shopfront consisted of a corner portico within narrow and tall round arches and on front and side broad segmental arch shop window openings. The frames are still original, but the infills of these openings have been changed several times due to changes of use.

INTERIOR: On the ground floor no original interiors or components remain. The storeys are horizontally divided into three apartments. Original steep staircase with railings and cast-iron balusters from the first to the second storey; stairs with quarter turns to the third and fourth storeys also with original railings and cast-iron balusters. On the second storey original front parlour with framed windows, marble chimney, plastered chimney mantel and a ceiling of decorative plaster; the remaining rooms newly fitted out. On the third storey the same front parlour, but the ceiling covered with plasterboard; alcove broken out, but still recognisable; the back parlour with simple marble chimney and mantel with corner pilasters of decorative plaster. The fourth storey is entirely fitted out as an apartment within the original roof truss structure.

VALUATION

Shop building with flat of general architectural-historical, cultural-historical and urban-planning importance because of

- the externally well-preserved and stylistically pure Eclectic style of the upper structure and the almost perfect characteristic glazed shopfront in Renovation style;

- the characteristic glazed shopfront as an expression of hygiene for the originally established butcher's business;

- Because of its location in an ensemble of shop buildings, of which the upper structure is mostly in Eclectic style and this building constitutes a high point in terms of decoration.