Woonhuis, Apeldoornseweg 48

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION with GATE from 1889 in neo-Renaissance style. The building stands in the more or less continuous eastern facade wall of the Apeldoornseweg between Sint Marten street and Nijhoffstraat. The section of Apeldoornseweg between the railway viaduct and Sonsbeekpark was developed on the eastern side (Sint Marten) in the last quarter of the nineteenth century with rows of mansions predominantly in neo-Renaissance style. The western side of Apeldoornseweg (Transvaalbuurt) was developed in the first decade of the twentieth century. The mansions on this side of the street show influences of Art Nouveau.

The wrought-iron GATE around the front garden is placed on a low brick wall with saddle-back profile and is fitted with a double swing gate.

Description

MANSION of two storeys, basement and attic storey on rectangular ground plan. The single-storey extension at the rear dates from 1952 and is not considered for protection. The hipped roof is covered with laid smoked improved Dutch tiles. Two dormer windows are placed in the front roof slope. The small wooden dormer (left) has a single-light casement window and a tapered spire with overhang on small corbels. The large stone dormer with attached gabled roof (right) has a rectangular window with fixed-light window and fanlight. This dormer is flanked by white plastered wing sections with volutes and is crowned by an aedicula with blind round light, plastered wing sections and a moulded pediment. In the left roof slope are two brick chimneys and in the rear slope two modern tilt windows. The brick facades are laid in cross-bond. The asymmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE is three bays wide, has a slightly projecting right bay and is horizontally articulated by a hardstone plinth with drip moulding, plastered spalls at the level of sills and a closing main entablature (moulded stuccoed architrave, frieze with stuccoed fields, moulded cornice on grooved corbels). The basement storey has two four-light fixed-light windows with security bars and hardstone drip sills. A hardstone flight of eight steps between right-angled abutments leads to the entrance in the projecting bay on the first storey. The entrance consists of a wide panelled door (two leaded glass panes with wrought-iron grilles and ornaments in the form of needles and two pediments) under a moulded calf and single-light fanlight with bevelled upper corners. The two window axes to the left of this contain single-light sash windows and fanlights with bevelled corners. The recesses of the wall openings on the first storey have bevelled corners and are furnished with plastered birth-stones and shuttering-stones with diamond heads. The second storey has above the entrance a balcony with wrought-iron railing and wooden handrail on two stout corbels with grooves and diamond heads. The balcony is accessible via a double glazed door. The two window axes to the left of this have fixed-light windows. The segmental arches with stuccoed shuttering-stones above the wall openings on the second storey are furnished with lambrequins (wood-carved, curtain-like ornament at the top of a window behind which wooden roller shutters). The frieze has at the location of the risalit a cartouche with the building year "1889".

The cemented RIGHT SIDE FACADE has two small rectangular windows and two large rectangular windows in each of which two arched windows with coloured leaded glass. The basement has a single-light window with security bar and an arched iron door.

The cemented REAR FACADE has in the left bay a door to the basement, on the first storey a T-sash window and on the second storey a rectangular window with fixed-light window and fanlight and a double glazed balcony door and fanlight. The wall openings on the second storey are furnished with lambrequins with wooden roller shutters.

The INTERIOR possesses original elements, such as a hall with white marble flooring, wooden staircase with worked newel post in the form of an Ionic baluster and a draught door with leaded glass; a cellar with barrel vaults; panelled doors with oval wooden door knobs; a living room on the first storey with two white marble fireplaces and richly executed stuccoed ceilings with leaf mouldings and large rosettes (four female figures with garlands, vases with flowers, sheaf of grain, foliage, ribbons etc.).

Valuation

MANSION with GATE from 1889.

- Of architectural historical value as a good and intact example in interior and exterior of a mansion in neo-Renaissance style. The building stands out due to high-quality aesthetic qualities, such as varied material use and rich ornamentation (including carved wooden lambrequins and beautiful stuccoed ceilings).

- Of urban historical value as an essential component of the distinguished building development on Apeldoornseweg. The object has ensemble value in relation to the surrounding buildings.