Woonhuis, Boulevard Heuvelink 191

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Description

Introduction

MANSION with ground-floor and upper-floor dwellings and FENCE, built in 1902 in transitional architecture with Art Nouveau influences in detailing and material use. Characteristic is the asymmetrical arrangement of the front facade in red facing brick with stone courses, a side pavilion containing two coupled porticoes, a hanging wooden oriel and a loggia. The balcony fence, the lintels and the tile panels in the arch spandrels are executed in Art Nouveau style.

The building is located in the more or less continuous northern facade wall of Boulevard Heuvelink (between Prins Hendrikstraat and Emmastraat) and therefore forms part of the Boulevard Quarter: a residential district largely developed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century with (rows of) mansions in historicizing styles. The front garden is separated from the pavement by a simple wrought-iron fence.

Description

Cellared two-aisle MANSION of three storeys and attic storey on a composite ground plan. The right aisle widens towards the rear and is extended at the back over the full height. The nearly flat roof has a half-hipped roof at the front which is clad with shingles. This half-hipped roof drains via a profiled wooden rainwater gutter on cut corbels. Two wooden roof dormers are placed in the half-hipped roof: box windows with small panes at the top, boarded gable tops, half-hipped rooflets with zinc finial and overhang on worked brackets. The brick facades are laid in English bond. The asymmetrically divided FRONT FACADE is articulated horizontally by a freestone plinth, stone courses of artificial stone and a closing tiled decorative band with dentil moulding and moulded stones. The worked lintels and corner blocks are likewise executed in artificial stone, the drip mouldings in freestone.

At the somewhat projecting narrow right aisle, a freestone staircase (three steps between trees) leads to two coupled porticoes with polychrome tile floors (quatrefoils in circles), freestone threshold and apron, panel doors with panes and each a wrought-iron grille in Art Nouveau style, profiled capitals and single-light fanlights. Above this entrance arrangement, at the level of the second storey, a rectangular wooden oriel is built out which rests on worked consoles. The oriel is provided with fluted stiles, boarded panels and four single-light windows with leaded glass fanlights. A wrought-iron flagpole holder is attached to the oriel. The balcony on the oriel has wrought-iron railing in Art Nouveau style between worked wooden stiles and handrails, and is accessible from within via a narrow loggia on the third storey. The loggia has a double balcony door under four-light fanlight.

The left aisle is two window bays wide and has in the freestone plinth two basement lights with box windows; in the first and second storeys two rectangular windows with single-light sash windows; in the third storey two rectangular windows with box windows and single-light fanlights. All windows are provided with carved wooden lambrequins at the top. The windows in the first storey are closed above the lintel by blind segmental arches. The arch spandrels are filled with polychrome tiles (left: tendrils with flowers and blue shield with Ionic capital, compass and triangle; right: tendrils with flowers and buds and a blue shield with plane, hammer, compass and pliers). The windows in the second storey have above the lintels three rectangular panels each and a second lintel. The panels are filled with polychrome tiles in Art Nouveau style (from left to right: tendrils with stylised flowers / "AD" / tendrils with stylised flowers - tendrils with stylised flowers / "1902" / tendrils with stylised flowers). The windows in the third storey have only a lintel.

The part of the LEFT SIDE FACADE that projects above the adjoining building is cement rendered and blind. The adjoining building on the right side is of equal height. The REAR FACADE has in the extended aisle two window bays: rectangular basement lights with box windows and rectangular windows with mostly altered window divisions in the four storeys above. All windows are closed by blind segmental arches. To the right of this extension is a basement door of bead parts and two coupled casement windows; in the first storey a wooden conservatory with double sash doors, single-light side lights and leaded glass fanlights; in the second storey two coupled sash windows between side and multi-light fanlights; in the third storey a balcony with renewed baluster railing and double balcony door.

The SPATIAL STRUCTURE of the two-aisle building consists of vestibules, corridors with toilets, kitchen and service rooms in the right aisle. The staircases in this aisle are grouped around a light well which borders the adjoining building. The left aisle contains en-suite rooms and a conservatory. The front part of the basement belongs to the upper dwelling, and the rear part to the ground-floor dwelling. All storeys of the rear part of the extended right aisle belong to the ground-floor dwelling. The INTERIOR of number 191 has a number of valuable elements, such as a draught door with etched glass between side lights and coloured leaded glass fanlights in Art Nouveau style, stuccoed mouldings against the walls and a stucco ceiling with a laurel wreath-shaped central roundel in the vestibule; in the corridor white marble floor, stucco ceiling with roundels and a coloured leaded glass window in Art Nouveau style at the location of the light well; a flight of stairs with a newel piece, worked wooden balusters and handrails with curved ends; a simple fireplace and a fixed display cabinet in the kitchen; sash doors, two black marble fireplaces, panel doors and stucco ceilings (mouldings and central roundels) in the en-suite rooms.

Valuation

MANSION with FENCE from 1902.

- Of architectural-historical value as a fine example of a considerable mansion with ground-floor and upper-floor dwellings in transitional architecture, which stands out for high-quality aesthetic qualities in interior and exterior, such as sound proportions and facade division, rich material use and particular ornamentation predominantly in Art Nouveau style. The symbols in the tile panels may refer to the profession (builder/architect?) of the original resident. Remarkable and rare is the arrangement of the dwellings with a light well.

- Of urban planning value as an essential component of the formerly generously laid out Boulevard Quarter, developed with mansions in eclectic style in the late nineteenth century, in which the object plays a dominant visual role owing to its somewhat different appearance in material use (red facing brick) and detailing in Art Nouveau style. Moreover, the building is situated opposite a square-like widening of Boulevard Heuvelink, near the intersection with Emmastraat. The object has ensemble value with the high-quality buildings surrounding it in predominantly historicizing architectural styles.