Woonhuis, Plantage Lepellaan 6

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EXPLANATORY DESCRIPTION

Introduction A town villa built in 1874 to a design by W. and J.L. Springer with an accompanying garden gate. Later the villa was enlarged with an extension on the SE side. In 1907-'08 a coach house with stables and coachman's dwelling was built in the garden of the villa at Plantage Lepellaan to a design by Staal and Kropholler.

Description TOWN VILLA, part of the villa complex Plantage Lepellaan, situated at the corner of Plantage Lepellaan and Plantage Middenlaan, built on an almost square ground plan of two storeys and one basement beneath the front house and one beneath the rear house under a surrounding flattened hipped roof with artificial slate. The later extension on the SE side consists of one storey with a tent roof. Facades are of laid red brick, Flemish bond. The front facade (NW) displays considerable plasticity, created by the deep recessing of the central bay, which makes the brickwork on either side appear as three-sided projecting oriels coming forward. The rear facade (SE) is largely rendered and has several windows. The building displays richly decorated architecture in various materials. The plinths, step treads, door and window sills, parapet bands of both storeys are of Escauzijnschen (hard) stone. The bands, cordon lines, architrave sections around the frames, the lines above them, the columns and all further mouldings are of artificial stone made from Portland cement. On the ground floor running speckled courses are laid. Roof truss rafters reinforced with banding. At the transition to the flattened section a surrounding architrave line. On the main roof four chimneys. These laid chimneys have flue holes and cassette above which a cover plate with further brickwork with flue holes and second cover plate. The rising roof panel on the SE side is interrupted. The rising roof panel on the NE side has a richly worked oeil-de-boeuf, whitewashed moulding, claw pieces, architrave, cornice and dark zinc decorative vases with draped garlands hanging as swags. Similar oeils-de-boeuf also on the NW side. Folding of the facade on Plantage Lepellaan is continued in the roof structure, where there is a heavier roof dormer with laid pilasters with band, basement and capital. Further oeil-de-boeuf, architrave, consoles, interrupted pediment with profiles and decorative filling of the tympanum. Above this a slender metal spire executed as a weather vane. Roof panel on the SW side contains a simpler roof dormer. The lower extension on the NE side has above the cornice both on the side of Plantage Middenlaan and on the side of the garden a balustrade with three series of four balusters, square pillars, volutes and covering with strongly profiled decorative obelisks at the corners. Right part of the NE facade makes a small projection and has above a plinth, sills with moulding, below a recessed window flanked by two fluted pilasters interrupted by speckled courses. On the pilasters a worked console with block. Window with sash window with four-pane glazing bars, fanlight with two-pane glazing bars. Speckled courses are continuous at ground floor level. On the left side two sash windows with rendered surround. Frieze and profiled cordon line. Cordon line projects at the location of the blocks on the pilasters and accommodates the basement of the aedicula. In the basement a small balustrade is included. This aedicula accentuates the window located to the right on the upper storey and consists of two half-columns with basement and Ionic capital, main entablature with festoons of hanging draperies and pediment with empty tympanum. On either side of this a spandrel with moulding and oeil-de-boeuf. On the left side two six-pane sash windows with elaborate sill with festoon. Whitewashed facade stones and laid risalit beneath the windows. Frieze with recessed placed cassettes. Profiled cornice on corbels. The corner sections of the facade on the NW side (Plantage Lepellaan) have a layout and detailing as described at the left section of the NE facade. The two facade sections running parallel to Plantage Lepellaan both have at ground floor level in the centre between speckled courses a bordered and profiled field with console on which a zinc decorative vase. Behind this a circular frame with concave field. Above the cordon line an aedicula. In the apse-shaped niche a zinc statue. Frieze and cornice as described. The main entrance in the central bay contains a double wooden panelled door with fanlight above the lower panel. Diamond heads and laid quartz column on either side. Above this a six-pane sash window with rendered surround and at the bottom small balustrades. The facade on the SW side (garden) is three window axes wide and contains on the left side a semicircular oriel on a natural stone basement. Short segmented steps with four treads. Curved casement doors with fixed curved panels with windows on either side. Laid posts with speckled blocks and capitals. Laid frieze and cornice. On the right side a broad rectangular conservatory with narrow natural stone steps with four treads and flanking posts. Multi-pane iron glazing bars and leaded glass window infill in the upper series. Also beside the centrally placed casement doors leaded glass window infill is present. The glazed roof of this conservatory is sloped. The facade on the SE side has a notably recessed facade section. The lower extension has a NE facade on Plantage Middenlaan. This facade shows in the centre a bordered and profiled field with console on which originally a zinc decorative vase. Behind this a circular frame with concave field. Recessed placed simple windows, speckled courses and flanking columns with basement and capital. Laid projecting plinths support the basements. Architrave sections at the sills. Frieze with consoles. Cordon line of the villa forms here as cornice the straight facade termination. This lower extension has a SW facade on the garden side. In this beside the usual elements a garden door with short step with treads and a multi-pane light. Further two windows each with double casement sashes and a fanlight.

Interior. In the entrance, vestibule and stair hall the walls are clad with white-veined marble panelling. Staircase with mahogany handrails and main balusters; stair balusters of zinc. In the dining room an oak parquet floor with a mosaic border of various types of wood. Classical influences in the detailing: dentil mouldings, egg-and-dart mouldings and decorative mouldings with floral motifs, further pilasters with Corinthian capitals and richly worked coffered ceilings, festoons with hanging cloths and guttae motifs, pediments above doors. Panelled doors have lost their original quarter-sawn field infilling and are now of plain wood. Spiral or winding staircase. Panelling at the conservatory of dark marble with white veins. Austere columns and pillars provide here the separation and transition to the interior space of the villa. Various rendered ceilings.

Evaluation A town villa executed in a rich eclectic manner with neo-Renaissance, neo-Baroque and neo-Louis XVI elements, principal component of the villa complex Plantage Lepellaan, of general importance due to architectural and cultural-historical as well as typological value. Also of importance due to situational and ensemble value as a defining element in the late 19th-century residential building of the Plantage. Furthermore of importance due to the rich detailing inside and outside, including the placement of zinc vases and sculptures and the use of rendered ornaments as well as a completely round spiral staircase.