Woonhuis, Parkstraat 50 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION with IRONWORK. The detached corner building, which currently contains six apartments, was built between 1880 and 1890 in eclectic style with neo-Renaissance influences. The mansion is located in the southern facade of Parkstraat at the corner with Prins Hendrikstraat in the Spijkerkwartier, a residential district largely laid out in the last quarter of the 19th century, of which the southern part is predominantly built with mansions. The Spijkerkwartier takes its name from the estate "Geldersch Spijker", which originally lay here. In Kastanjelaan there still stand two sandstone gateposts belonging to the entrance of the estate, of which the house lay on the site where the crossing of Parkstraat with Prins Hendrikstraat now stands. The last proprietor of the estate, Miss H. Koops, concluded an agreement with the Municipality in 1865 regarding the construction of a new street across part of her property. This western section of Parkstraat, built between 1865 and 1872, ended in the east at the old manor house. In 1878 Miss Koops sold the estate to the municipality. After demolition of the manor house, Parkstraat was extended eastward and a new street crossing Parkstraat was laid out between Spijkerstraat and Boulevard Heuvelink, the present-day Prins Hendrikstraat. The development of Prins Hendrikstraat, the middle section of Parkstraat and the north side of the eastern section of Parkstraat took place mainly in the period 1878-1889 and was handed over to private individuals. Miss Koops herself moved into the newly built corner building at Parkstraat 47, which she named Villa Gelders Spijker. The building at Parkstraat 50 is situated on the opposite street corner and is the counterpart of Parkstraat 47. Both mansions were built at the same time and in the same style, possess the same number of storeys and approximately equal dimensions and are both provided with a chamfered corner at the side of the crossing. The two other corner buildings at the crossing were moreover also built at the same time and provided with a chamfered corner.

Parkstraat 50 possesses on both streets a narrow strip of garden bounded by wrought-iron ironwork and a shallow back garden.

Description

Detached residential building on a rectangular, virtually square, ground plan with chamfered corner. The corner is larger than 90°, because the side facade follows the direction of Prins Hendrikstraat and this does not connect perpendicularly to Parkstraat. The building contains a basement, two storeys and an attic storey under a half-hipped roof covered with laid Dutch tiles newly repaired. On the chamfered corner is located one white-painted wooden roof dormer with pilasters, curved sides, main beam and segmental pediment with profiled moulding and a leaf-shaped ornament.

The facades facing the street are built of red brick, laid in stretcher bond with cut joints. They are horizontally articulated by a sandstone plinth and drip moulding, rendered plaster courses on the ground floor, a rendered profiled stringcourse and the rendered corniced main cornice, of which the frieze on the two long facades is decorated with festoons. The main cornice is concluded with a profiled, corniced cornice. Vertical articulation is effected by means of rendered ashlar chains on the corners of the facades and the risalit. The ashlar chains are provided with diamond bosses on the ground floor and made of sandstone at the level of the basement. The rear facade and the right side facade are rendered.

The symmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE comprises three bays, of which the central one forms a risalit. Within it is located the entrance section with a double panelled door with segmental pediments, windows with wrought-iron grilles, a profiled calf and a fanlight. Before the door is situated a staircase with sandstone steps and rendered sides with sandstone coping plates and one wrought-iron handrail. The coping plates connect to the sandstone drip moulding, which is located between ground floor and basement. In the basement, on either side of the staircase, is a window with a sash window, a saddle-backed arch of sandstone blocks with a keystone with diamond boss and a toothed moulding of sandstone blocks. This moulding is connected by means of rendered blocks with the ashlar chains along the edges of the bays.

On the mezzanine floor, on either side of the door, is a window with rendered moulding, concluded by a saddle-backed arch of which the keystone is provided with a diamond boss with a pediment-shaped conclusion, which is incorporated in the stringcourse. The windows are provided with sash windows and possess at the lower end a rendered field with a rosette in the centre.

The three windows on the first floor possess an inward-sloping ashlar chain moulding, concluded by a main cornice decorated with festoons and crowned with a pediment with profiled moulding. The windows are provided with sash windows and possess at the lower end a rendered field with diamond bosses. The corner bay is detailed in the same manner as the front facade. On the first floor, however, there is no window, but a double balcony door with fanlight. The balcony, provided with a wooden balustrade with carved balusters, rests on ornamental scroll-shaped consoles.

The nearly symmetrically arranged LEFT SIDE FACADE comprises two bays. The basement is provided with plaster courses, two windows with sash windows, a sandstone toothed moulding, concluded by a sandstone saddle-backed arch with a keystone which is provided with a diamond boss. The windows on the mezzanine floor and on the storey are detailed in the same manner as the windows in the front facade. The wall section to the left of the windows is wider than the right wall section.

The asymmetrically arranged RIGHT SIDE FACADE possesses two small windows and two larger ones, one of which has rounded corners. Both windows are provided with sash windows. The asymmetrically arranged REAR FACADE is at the level of the mezzanine floor provided with a renewed veranda which extends across the entire width of the facade. Two double doors with fanlight open onto it. On the first floor are situated three windows with T-sash windows, provided with a 2-light fanlight.

The garden is separated from the pavement by wrought-iron IRONWORK with a revolving gate between cast-iron pillars.

In the INTERIOR several original elements have been preserved, such as the staircase with simple stucco ceilings and a double-flight stair with a handrail with curved claw, cast-iron spindles and profiled handrail. Between vestibule and staircase is a double panelled door with multi-pane windows and multi-pane fanlight, both provided with etched glass. Furthermore, there are a number of panelled doors in profiled moulding.

Valuation

Detached MANSION with IRONWORK from c. 1880-1890.

- Of architectural-historical importance as a good and intact example of a mansion in eclectic style with neo-Renaissance influences with special aesthetic qualities such as good proportions and rich ornamentation.

- Of urban planning importance due to its location at the crossing of Parkstraat and Prins Hendrikstraat, where all four corner buildings are provided with a chamfered corner. Moreover, the building together with the building at Parkstraat 47, which was built at the same time and in the same style and approximately the same size, forms the entrance to the western section of Parkstraat, one of the principal and best-preserved streets in the Spijkerkwartier, a district which was largely laid out in the last quarter of the 19th century and of which the southern part is predominantly built with mansions.