Woonhuis, Prins Hendrikstraat 13

English translation

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Description

Introduction

This MANSION with FENCE was built around 1890 in the style of eclecticism with neo-Renaissance influences. This mansion is located in the Spijkerkwartier east of Arnhem city centre, and is positioned in the building line of the continuous eastern streetfront wall of Prins Hendrikstraat. The Spijkerkwartier is a residential district largely laid out in the last quarter of the 19th century, with the southern part predominantly built up with mansions. Prins Hendrikstraat was laid out after the sale of the estate to the municipality of Arnhem in 1878 and subsequently built upon by private individuals. The shallow front garden is closed off at the street side by a simple wrought-iron FENCE.

Description

MANSION of three storeys, a basement and an attic storey on rectangular ground plan. The narrow right aisle has a portico at the front and a slight outbuilding at the rear extending to the attic storey. The wide left aisle is two window-bays wide at the front and has partially modified wooden facades at the rear with a balcony for the first storey and a modern balcony on the attic storey. The brick facades are laid in Flemish bond. The gabled roof has its ridge perpendicular to the front facade and is equipped at the front with a half-hipped end, in which a flat-covered wooden roof dormer is installed (sash window between pilasters with recessed panels). The roof is covered with broken flat tiles. The roof overhang at the rear rests on corbels. The FRONT FACADE is articulated horizontally by a rusticated plastered basement storey, string courses, white plastered spandrels and a closing principal cornice. The principal cornice consists of a profiled architrave, a frieze with recessed panels and a profiled cornice on consoles. The rectangular recessed panels beneath the windows and the arched fields above the windows are filled with brick mosaic in which patterns and ornaments are executed in white plasterwork. All relieving arches in the first and third storeys (blind segmental arches) are provided with a keystone with a head; female heads in the central window-bay and otherwise bearded male heads. The wall openings in the second storey are closed by architraves on consoles with festoon ornaments between them. The central architrave is moreover crowned by a broken pediment with obelisk ornament. The basement storey has two rectangular windows with sash windows and artificial stone drip moulds, and on the right an entrance under the stairs to the first storey. This sandstone stair between high built-up piers leads to a segmentally arched portico in the first storey. The portico has a sandstone floor, threshold and newels, partly tiled side walls, and an entrance with renewed door and fanlight. To the left of the portico are two rectangular windows, with single-pane sash windows and fanlights with transparent leaded glass. The second storey has in the centre a balcony with wrought-iron fence. The double balcony door with fanlight has on either side a rectangular window with single-pane sash window and fanlight. The spandrels in the second storey are provided between the wall openings with a half-sphere. The third storey has three rectangular windows with sash windows.

The REAR FACADE has in the basement of the built-up extension an entrance (renewed door) and small rectangular window. Above this is per storey a rectangular window with sash window and fanlight, plus in the first and third storeys a small rectangular window with single-pane casement window. All wall openings are closed by straight stretches. The right part of the rear facade has wooden facades, with renewed doors in the basement and first storey, and in the second and third storeys sash windows between side and fanlights.

The SPATIAL STRUCTURE consists of a vestibule, corridors, staircase, toilet in the right aisle, and rooms en suite with conservatories in the left aisle. This dwelling possesses a number of original INTERIOR ELEMENTS, such as various panel doors with profiled frames; rooms en suite with stucco ceilings (oval lists and central rosette), black marble fireplaces and sliding doors with leaded glass; a vestibule with stuccoed walls and ceiling, white marble floor and plinths, a draught door with calf (diamond heads) and fanlight.

Valuation

MANSION with FENCE from ca. 1890.

- Of architectural-historical value as a fine example in design and detailing of a late nineteenth-century substantial dwelling house in eclectic style with neo-Renaissance influences. The object stands out for high-quality aesthetic qualities particularly in the front facade design, which is characterised by varied use of materials and abundant, highly rich ornamental work. The object is intact in terms of main form, detailing and spatial structure, and possesses a number of valuable interior elements, such as stucco ceilings, marble fireplaces and floors, panel and sliding doors.

- Of urban-planning value as an essential part of the late nineteenth-century Spijkerkwartier, built up with mansions in historicist architectural styles, located at the site of the former Geldersch Spijker estate. The object has ensemble value in relation to the relatively intact nineteenth-century development and layout of Prins Hendrikstraat, and stands out in this streetscape because of its exceptionally rich detailing.

- Of cultural-historical value as a particular expression of late nineteenth-century private dwelling construction, which is characterised by a traditional two-aisle layout with lower and upper dwellings, a representative front facade in historicist style and application of industrially manufactured ornaments in the interior and exterior. As such, the object has been preserved intact.