Woonhuis, Velperbuitensingel 20

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION, now in use as an office, built ca. 1900 in transitional architecture with elements of Art Nouveau. The building is located in the connected eastern façade wall of the Velperbuitensingel, near the corner with the Spijkerstraat. The narrow plot extends at the rear to the Trompsteeg. The adjacent, slightly older buildings are likewise white rendered and have the same number of storeys, but smaller storey heights. The building stands close to the singel and is situated opposite the Musislaan; the dividing line between on one side the grounds of Musis Sacrum (north) and the singel park around the Lauwersgracht (south side).

Description

Two-aisle MANSION of three storeys, basement and attic storey on a rectangular ground plan. The attic storey has a nearly flat roof with a steep roof slope on the front and rear sides. The roof slope on the front is provided with shingles, two wooden roof dormers with single-glazed swing windows and boarded gable ends and is finished with a roof cornice. The roof slope on the rear is provided with roof felt and a similar roof dormer.

The asymmetrically laid out, white rendered FRONT FAÇADE is three bays wide. The rusticated natural stone plinth with terminating drip moulding has two two-pane basement lights with rounded corners and wrought-iron grilles. The entrance arrangement on the right consists of: a hardstone step, threshold and jambs; a segmentally arched door with letter panels and a vertical pane with wrought-iron grille; a moulded glazing bar frame; a tall six-pane fanlight with coloured stained glass (stylised floral motifs) and worked calf and vertical bars that issue into three arches. The daylight openings with rounded top corners are not rendered and form a crenellated brickwork surround. The windows have an identical surround. The first storey has two single-pane sash windows with two-pane fanlights and two-part terracotta weathered sills. Above these windows is a large wooden bay on three worked wooden supporting construction. The bay is articulated by five slender columns on bases, has a solid facing at the level of the bases with a series of half-balusters, above this six large single-pane windows and a terminating cornice with a worked wooden drip moulding. The bay is finished by an encompassing roof slope with shingles and a balcony with wooden spindle railing. To the right of the bay, above the entrance, is a single-pane sash window with fanlight. The third storey has a balcony door between two single-pane sash windows, all under blind segmental arches. The spandrels are provided with bond mozaic in red and yellow brick. The front façade is finished by a projecting segmental arch frieze on projecting brick pilasters. The moulded projecting gutter rests on carved brackets. The REAR FAÇADE has in the left bay (staircase section) two basket arch-shaped windows with a horizontal sliding frame and fanlight. The fanlight of the upper window is provided with stained glass. The right section of the rear façade has over the height of the first through to the third storey a wooden extension with modified storefront in the first storey and two tall coupled swing windows in the storeys above. The second and third storeys are provided with a worked wooden drip moulding.

The LEFT and RIGHT SIDE FAÇADES projecting above the adjacent buildings are cemented.

The rich INTERIOR possesses among other things a basement with black/yellow tile floor, white tiled walls and a display cabinet (former kitchen at the rear); a draught vestibule with white marble floor and staircase of four steps and a draught door with sidelights in which sandblasted glass (tendrils, leaf motifs, vase with flowers); a corridor with white marble floor and plinths, polychrome painted stucco reliefs on two door frames (leaf frieze on which vase with garland and flowers), walls and ceilings divided into sections with decorative mouldings and central rosettes (also in the draught vestibule and in the stairwell), a toilet with tiled walls (diamond and stylised floral patterns in yellow, red and light blue) and a small fountain with floral motifs; a stairwell with wooden stair, worked stair rail and cupboards in the side walls of the landing; a suite of rooms in the second storey with worked wooden panel doors and similar sliding doors, moulded door frames, a two-part wooden dado with a painting of stylised leaf motifs in the panels, two wooden fireplaces, a ceiling lining in chessboard pattern of moulded beams resting on small wall consoles with capitals and ceiling decoration: light blue fabric on which in white tendrils, leaf and floral motifs and vase with fruit in the front room, red fabric on which in yellow and green tendrils, floral and leaf motifs.

Valuation

MANSION from ca. 1900.

- Of architectural-historical value as a good example of a mansion in transitional architecture with elements of Art Nouveau. The building stands out because of the high aesthetic qualities of the design, in particular because of the special use of materials and the ornamentation in the largely intact interior of the second storey.

- Of urban-planning value as part of the historically developed, 19th-century singel structure/building fabric of Arnhem, in which the building plays a prominent visual role because of its substantial building mass, rich detailing, the special bay and its position in the sight line of the Musislaan.