Opleidingscentrum, Kardinaal van Rossumstraat 22

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

Former BOARDING SCHOOL for R.K. Young Gentlemen, locally known as INSTITUT BORSTEN. The private boarding school with residence was built in 1895 in an Eclectic style.

As a result of declining student numbers, the boarding school section was converted to residential units at the beginning of this century. To this end windows and doors were added.

Description.

Elongated building on a rectangular floor plan, largely under a hipped roof. The building mass at the left corner extends somewhat further to the side and rear than the rest of the building mass. This was originally the residence and is executed somewhat lower under a flat roof. The rest of the building was in use as a boarding school.

The front facade is plastered rubble-stone and is articulated vertically by pilasters and narrow risalits. Horizontally, stringcourses and a cornice have been applied. On the ground floor windows and doors have been added in a form resembling the original windows and doors. These are mostly sash windows with fanlights, on the upper floor there are T-windows. Some panel doors have wrought-iron grilles. Each dwelling now has on the ground floor two windows and a door.

On a plastered field between the ground floor and the upper floor the inscription "INSTITUT BORSTEN" was painted. Remnants of it are still faintly visible. On the upper floor the original window layout has been preserved.

On the rear, over the full width of the building on the ground floor are various extensions placed. On the upper floor the original windows have been largely preserved, surrounded by strips with rounded corners. At the top the facade is finished with a string course.

Number 22, the right corner, has a corner risalit. The fanlights of the windows are filled with leaded glass. At some windows the relieving arch runs through to the plastered diamond points. Adjacent to the keystone stylised garlands have been applied. Beside the door of 22 are the added door of number 24 and a new window. At number 26 a window has been replaced by a door, in the middle bay of this building a window has been added. The ground floor has T-windows with fanlights filled with leaded glass. In the fanlights of number 28 cathedral glass has been applied. Number 28-red has a wide three-part window (1920s style), in the fanlights geometric leaded glass. On the ground floor a risalit, continuing over number 30, the corner dwelling where the risalit also spans the upper floor. To the left of the risalit a wide composite window has been placed. The recessed corner is two-storey under a flat roof with a moulding at the front. The side facade is executed in IJsselstein brick. In the interior not much of the original state remains. Partition walls have subdivided the whole into separate dwellings, each with a corridor from front to back beside which the living room is situated. This layout runs perpendicular to the original state whereby a corridor ran parallel to the street and adjoining it classrooms were arranged. On the upper floor were the sleeping quarters for the pupils.

Valuation.

The former institute is of general interest. The building has cultural-historical importance as an expression of socio-economic development and as an example of the typological development of the private boarding school, in contrast to often very extensive complexes of boarding schools of religious congregations. The building has been well preserved externally and is as an example of a private boarding school in North Brabant extremely rare.