Woonhuis, Bouriciusstraat 9

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Description

Introduction

Two GENTLEMAN'S HOUSES, of which no. 11 with IRONWORK FENCE, built c. 1914 in transition style. The gentleman's houses, which are only connected to each other by means of a small gateway, form mirror images of each other. The gentleman's houses distinguish themselves from the other houses in the street through their complicated, picturesque building masses with towers and bay windows with loggias. The houses also stand out due to the special ornamentation and use of materials such as the wooden pillars in the porches and the loggias. The architectural style is transition style, a hybrid form of the styles current in the early 20th century, such as historicism (window forms and closures), rationalism (some constructive elements, porches), geometric Art Nouveau (ceilings in the interior and form of sandstone and rendered ornaments, decoration of lintels, pillars, etc.). The gentleman's houses are located in the Bouriciusstraat in the Burgemeesterswijk to the north of Arnhem's city centre between the Amsterdamseweg and the Zijpendaalseweg. This residential district, developed around the turn of the century, lies on the north-eastern slope of the push moraine complex between the Rhine and the Jansbeek and borders the Sonsbeekpark. Characteristic of the district are the widenings of the streets into triangular squares, from which sight lines run towards the Sonsbeekpark. The two gentleman's houses are situated precisely on such a sight line. The buildings in the southern part of the district consist mainly of rows of adjoining gentleman's houses, built in historicizing styles.

The properties have shallow front gardens. The garden of no. 11 is bounded by wrought-iron ironwork.

Description

The two GENTLEMAN'S HOUSES have a complex ground plan, a basement storey, two and three storeys on either side of the towers, which consist of four storeys, and an attic storey. The houses have flat roofs with 5-pane roof lights and roof signs on the front and partly also on the rear. The towers have overhanging tent roofs. The roof signs and tent roofs are covered with slate in Maas bond. The roofs are provided on the street side with far-overhanging wooden gutters on worked blocks. On the front roof sign are roof dormers with saddle roof dormer windows with profiled wooden weather vanes, finely ended gable sections and casement windows with side lights.

The FRONT FACADES of the gentleman's houses together have a symmetrical arrangement, while the individual front facades are laid out asymmetrically. The front facades are connected by the small gateway to the rear gardens. On either side of the gateway are the two-storey sections, next to them the towers and on the outer side the three-storey sections of the dwellings.

In the towers the entrance porches are placed. The three-storey sections contain a broad segment arch-shaped bay window, crowned with a loggia with balcony. Above this is again a balcony. The front facades are built up with brick, laid in English bond and provided with a plinth with ashlar course and roller course. The windows are closed with stone strips, mostly with slightly arched underside and brick drip stones. In the tower bay is a porch with stairs with sandstone steps, rising brick sides and simple iron railings. The porch opening has on either side a small square wooden pillar with fluted capital. The pillars rest on high rendered natural stone bases. At the top they connect to a broad rendered natural stone architrave with simple Art Nouveau motifs. Above this is a fanlight, consisting of five natural stone balusters between brick corner blocks. The balusters connect to a natural stone lintel. In the porch is a frame placed on granite steps and a broad double 6-pane panel door with multi-pane fanlight. Above this are on the first and second storeys both on the front and on the side sash windows with respectively 6- and 4-pane fanlights. On the third storey are also both on the front and on the side four rectangular windows with single-pane window panes. The bays on the inside of the towers have in the plinth a basement light and on the first storey a window with frame with broad central mullion and two sash windows with 4-pane fanlights. On the second storey above this a window with sash window with 6-pane fanlight. The mirror shutters originally present with the sash windows are still present only at no. 11.

The bays on the outside of the towers are entirely occupied by a broad segment arch-shaped bay window with three windows with fanlights. At no. 9 the bay windows have been slightly altered. In the plinth are basement lights. The windows are closed at the top with an ornamented lintel beam. Above the windows are two zinc curved small roofs, which connect with the balcony balustrade on the bay window. This has brick corner mullions with simple natural stone crowning and a rich wrought-iron ironwork with natural stone coping. Behind the balcony lies the loggia, which is bounded on the left and right by two wooden pillars of the same type as in the porch. The pillars possess natural stone capitals decorated with Art Nouveau motifs, which connect to the richly ornamented heavy lintel beam. The loggia, in which there is a ceiling consisting of brick trough vaults, is accessible via a double balcony door with side lights and respectively 8- and 2-pane fanlights. Above the loggia is a balcony with brick balustrade with wrought-iron ironwork. The high-rising corner jambs and the brick mullions of the balcony are crowned by respectively natural stone blocks with capping plates and profiled crowning. This balcony is accessible via a double door with two side lights on each side.

The wooden small gateway has on either side wooden pillars on brick piers, a simple wooden main frame and above this a brick balustrade.

The SIDE FACADES on the inside are entirely rendered. In the middle of the first storey there is an entrance with panel door with a 6-pane window, to the left and right of which are windows. In front of the door is a basement light with grating. On the second and third storeys are two staircase windows with 2-pane windows.

The passage between nos. 9 and 11 leads to a covered passage between the two attached sheds. This covered passage has a stucco ceiling.

The REAR FACADES are rendered. The facade sections on either side of the passage project forward in relation to the outer sections. For the recessed sections conservatories have been placed. No. 9 has a completely modernized conservatory with balcony and also the kitchen section on the left has been altered.

The conservatory of no. 11 has a double single-pane sliding door with side lights and respectively 12- and 4-pane fanlights and is closed at the top by a profiled wooden gutter on blocks. Both conservatories have modern iron balcony railings.

On the ground floor of no. 11 on the left is a window with multi-pane window and on the right a window with frame with central mullion and two sash windows with 4-pane fanlights. At the far right is a simple entrance. In the western facade of the projecting section are a frame with two windows with fanlights and a non-original door. On the first storey the balconies are accessible via double single-pane balcony doors with fanlight and side lights with 4-pane fanlights. The fanlight of no. 9 is 8-pane. On the second storey in the projecting facade sections are two windows with frames with central mullion and sash windows with 4-pane fanlights (at no. 9 on the right altered). The rear facades close at the top with a simple gutter on blocks. On the rear roof signs are simple roof dormers. On either side of the middle passage there is a chimney.

Against the rear facades at the location of the middle passage between both houses single-storey, rendered sheds with flat roof attach. The sheds have at the end of the narrow passage between nos. 9 and 11 an obliquely placed entrance. In the side facades of the sheds are attached doors. The INTERIOR of no. 9 contains various original elements. In the hall there are among other things marble floors, steps and skirting boards, a stairwell with ornamented stair balustrade provided with fancy capital and decorative vase, wooden balusters and profiled railings and a draught door with etched glass preserved. Furthermore panel doors with profiled frames, some ornamented stucco ceilings and black marble fireplaces were retained. On the landing of the attic storey is a cast-iron water fountain with copper tap.

The INTERIOR of no. 11 is still almost entirely in original condition. The vestibule and passage are provided with marble floors, skirting boards and steps and simple stucco ceilings. The walls of the vestibule are provided with stucco work panels. Further there is a draught door with multi-pane side lights with cut glass, a wooden stairwell with ornamented stair balustrade with foliate motifs, wooden balusters and profiled railings and panels along the staircase. The stairwell continues up to the attic storey, where it is lit by a lantern with gabled roof. Throughout the house profiled door frames and panel doors were retained. The panel doors are, however, mostly boarded over. Further there are stucco ceilings among other things in Art Nouveau style with chestnut leaf motifs, preserved, a double 16-pane sliding door with cut glass, a double sliding door with 7-pane fanlight and a number of marble fireplaces. The kitchen too still possesses original elements such as a terrazzo floor with border trim, a fireplace with profiled moulding, a wall with blue and white decorated tiles, a high plinth of white tiles and a fixed crockery cupboard with double 8-pane doors. The basement ceiling consists partly of trough vaults. The basement is accessible via a wooden staircase with profiled balusters and a stair balustrade.

The front garden of no. 11 is closed off on the street side by a wrought-iron garden gate with double swing gate. The gate posts have simple Art Nouveau ornamentation. The pavement is of pressed tiles.

The rear garden of no. 9 with a large old horse-chestnut tree is still entirely surrounded by an old brick garden wall.

Valuation

Two GENTLEMAN'S HOUSES, of which no. 11 with IRONWORK FENCE, built c. 1914 in transition architecture.

- Of architectural historical importance as a good and reasonably intact example of transition architecture, a hybrid form of the styles current in the early 20th century, such as historicism (window forms), rationalism (some constructive elements, porches), geometric Art Nouveau (ceilings in the interior and form of sandstone and rendered ornaments, decoration of lintels, pillars, etc.).

- Of urban planning importance as part of the southern facade wall of the Bouriciusstraat in the Burgemeesterswijk, developed around the turn of the century, where the properties play an image-determining role due to their striking form and high location near a triangular square on a sight line towards the Sonsbeekpark.