Woonhuis, Boulevard Heuvelink 126

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Description

Introduction

Row of four TOWNHOUSES with FENCES, now two residences, one residence with practice (no.130) and room rental (no.132), built circa 1895-1900 in neo-Renaissance style. Characteristic of this architectural style are the symmetrical layout, rendered ashlar courses and ornaments, decorative brickwork, balconies with wrought-iron fences, Flemish gables and roof dormers with stepped gables, iron garden fences (spikes with points and swing gates between profiled balusters). The block is located in the more or less continuous southern facade wall of Boulevard Heuvelink, between Van der Spieghelstraat and Van Prinstererstraat, and therefore forms part of the Boulevardkwartier; a residential district built to a large extent in the last quarter of the nineteenth century with (rows of) townhouses in historicising styles. The block has a narrow rear access on the left side.

Description

Four adjoining TOWNHOUSES of two storeys, basement and attic storey on rectangular ground plan. The mansard roof with the ridge parallel to the front facade has gently sloping upper roof pitches and a steep front and rear pitch. The rear roof pitch is covered with fired tiles. The front roof pitch is covered with mastic slates in Maas covering (nos.128 and 132), shingled slates in Maas covering (no.130) and eternit slates in Maas covering (no.126). Numbers 126 and 132 have in the centre a Flemish stepped gable with originally on either side a wooden roof dormer. The Flemish gables are provided with a rectangular window (two-pane casement, curled lead slate) beneath a blind round arch (rendered keystone, brick mosaic in arch soffit) and a wrought-iron ornamental anchor at the apex. The steps have hardstone caps with saddle backs. The small wooden roof dormers each have a single-pane casement, a boarded gable top and an abutting half-hipped roof with wind vanes and piron. Numbers 128 and 130 have instead of the Flemish gable a stone roof dormer with stepped gable, single-pane casement and blind segmental arch with rendered keystone and decorative brickwork in the arch soffit. In the rear roof pitch several roof lights are installed.

The mirror-symmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE is twelve window bays wide. The front facade is horizontally articulated by an ashlar plinth with hardstone drip moulding, a hardstone drip moulding at the height of the hardstone window sills, rendered ashlar courses at the height of the lower, intermediate and upper sills, a cornice (gutter) on worked brackets.

Each of the four residences is three window bays wide and has in the plinth two two-pane basement windows under hardstone lintel and inset segmental arch (at numbers 130 and 132 two windows are replaced by an entrance). A hardstone staircase leads to the entrance on the first storey. The entrance consists of a double panelled door with two round-arch panes and wrought-iron grilles, a profiled jamb and a leaded glass fanlight with two worked mullions. The two window bays next to the entrance are provided with single-pane sash windows and fanlights. The second storey has a double glazed balcony door between two fixed windows, all provided with a single-pane fanlight. The wall openings on the first and second storeys are closed by blind segmental arches (basket arches above the balcony doors) with rendered imposts and keystones. The arch soffits are provided with brick mosaic with rendered panels. The balcony rests on quarter-round hardstone brackets and is provided with a wrought-iron railing with spiral motifs. The LEFT SIDE FACADE is provided with straight wall anchors and two rectangular windows on the attic storey.

The whitewashed REAR FACADE has on the first storey a wooden conservatory with double glazed garden doors, side and fanlights, and a double glazed rear door under two-pane fanlight and blind segmental arch. The second storey has above the conservatory a double glazed balcony door under fanlight and blind segmental arch. The first split-level above the rear door has a narrow and a broad rectangular window under blind segmental arches (respectively a single-pane casement and a fixed window, both with single-pane fanlight). The second split-level has an identical fixed window with fanlight under blind segmental arch.

The INTERIOR of number 126 possesses a large number of valuable components, such as a draught lobby with white marble floor and plint, stuccoed walls and ceiling with mouldings and a central rosette, a draught door with round-arch shaped side and fanlights set in a wooden frame surround; a hall with white marble floor and plint, wooden staircase with worked newel post and profiled handrail, panelled doors with profiled surrounds; a basement storey with coal cellar provided with tunnel vaults; a suite of rooms on the first storey with stucco ceilings (central rosettes and corner fillings with geometric patterns, diamond heads, stylised flower and leaf motifs), conservatory with double sliding doors (closed and glazed); split-levels in the staircase area with a leaded glass window at the top; a suite of rooms on the second storey with stucco ceilings (rosettes with leaves and flowers, leaf mouldings). Said elements, though less complete, are likewise present in the more altered interiors of Boulevard Heuvelink 128, 130 and 132.

Valuation

Row of TOWNHOUSES with FENCES from circa 1895-1900.

- Of architectural-historical value as a fine and intact example in layout and detailing of a row of townhouses in neo-Renaissance style. The object stands out for high-quality aesthetic qualities in interior and exterior, such as the varied use of materials (iron ornamental fences and anchors, marble floors, worked wooden panelled doors and staircase, leaded glass windows) and rich ornamentation (profiled hardstone balcony brackets, stucco ceilings).

- Of urban planning value as part of the spaciously laid-out late-nineteenth-century Boulevardkwartier, built with townhouses in historicising architectural styles. The row of four residences has ensemble value in relation to some surrounding townhouses of equal monumental value on Boulevard Heuvelink.