Villa Polder

English translation

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Description

introduction

VILLA, named "VILLA POLDER". Built in 1884 on behalf of doctor Kuijper in an eclectic style.

description

Detached two-storey building on a rectangular ground plan under a mansard roof. The building is cellared at the kitchen location. On both sides, set back against the side facade of the house, are coach houses under a gabled roof with the ridge perpendicular to the street.

The whole is executed in handmade brick with a plastered plinth. Corner pilasters and the central bay with pilasters are also plastered. At ground floor level the pilasters are blocked, above smooth finished. A plastered cornice with volutes and gutter moulding form the termination of the facade. The original zinc and slate roof covering of the villa has been replaced with shingles.

Finials crown the corner points. The coach house roofs are covered with improved Dutch tiles.

The front facade is five bays wide. In the centre is a double panelled door with cast-iron grilles. Above this on consoles is a balcony with balustrade visible. Above the balcony doors the inscription VILLA POLDER is placed. The central bay is crowned by a roof dormer with cheeks and triangular pediment. On both sides are arched T-windows placed under a plastered segment arch with hood. Flower motifs are applied on the quoins and closing stones. A sandstone underdorpel connects any two adjacent windows.

Beside the door a foundation stone is placed with the inscription "FIRST STONE/LAID BY/MISS C.KUIJPER/5 OCTOBER 1884". In the roof plane modern velux windows have been placed on both sides of the roof dormer.

On the rear side under older roofing of the terrace a conservatory has been built on. Above this a balcony with wooden balustrade. The original layout has been largely preserved and consists of a central corridor, to the left a large interconnected room, to the right former consulting room and kitchen. Parts of the original fixtures include a marble floor and wood panelling in the corridor, window sills and joinery around the windows, marble fireplaces and framing of the sash doors in the interconnected room. In this space also stucco ceilings with rosettes and corner ornaments. In the kitchen is a fireplace.

In the side facade of the coach house, left of the villa, bond patterns are visible. In the wooden gate is a window, from inside the coach house has been modernised and is accessible via the interconnected room of the villa.

Behind the building a terrace has been laid out with adjacent a lower sunken round pond and a large garden with various trees and shrubs, including weeping willow and red beech. The front garden has been redesigned and furnished with a terrace. Remnant of the original planting is a chestnut tree. The garden with villa lies slightly elevated relative to the street and is separated by wrought-iron railings on a low brick wall with dog-tooth course. At both ends of the railings is a gate.

valuation

The building is of general importance for its cultural-historical value as an example of the development of villa building in the Brabant countryside. The house is of architectural-historical merit for its design and use of materials. It has been well preserved.