Hartelust

English translation

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Description

Introduction

WAREHOUSE WITH OFFICE, built around 1910 in Transitional style as a wholesale business, possibly founded in 1910 by the Reijnders family and soon taken over by Bernard Hartelust, a family name that became the building's namesake. Hartelust operated as a department of the N.V. Nederlandsche IJzerhandel.

Description

EXTERIOR: The substantial warehouse on an approximately square ground plan has a built-in wing behind the property at Romkeslaan 1/1a. The building, six bays wide and four to five storeys high, has a flat roof apart from the tower elements. The front, which at first glance appears regularly articulated, is asymmetrical in many respects, even in its use of materials. The northern tower element is entirely built of greyish-brown brick and to the level of the lintels of the first storey the masonry is of this material across the full width; above this brickwork of yellow stone, where functional embellishments such as greyish-brown relieving arches create contrast. Two tower-like bays form the corners, both rising above the main volume with a flat roof, the northern one five storeys and the southern one four storeys high. Between the towers four bays of different widths and four storeys high, separated by rainwater downpipes and broad wall mullions. The fourth bay counting from the north is four narrow window bays wide; the remaining bays three window bays. The facades are finished with gutter mouldings with a generous overhang, supported by a series of openwork and decoratively worked wooden consoles; running around the tower elements rising above the flat roof. The northern tower has a four-sided convex crown, covered with diagonal zinc plates with a triangular gable on each side; the southern one with a tent roof, covered with scaled orange-red glazed slate tiles with a top finial. On the ground floor and first storey the second and third bays have storefront windows; otherwise intact. In the first storey, as far as not disturbed, service doors of various sizes and forms; in the wide bay with round-arched windows on both sides. The first storey is lit by narrow, rectangular-headed tall eight-light windows, each relieved by a segmental arch; the second storey has segmentally-headed six-light windows which per bay - including the wide one - are relieved by a comprehensive segmental arch that extends to the lintels of the next storey. The third storey has beneath the overhanging gutter moulding a large series of small tall windows, two between each console. In the tower elements variants, including on the second and third storeys of the northern tower a compound round-arched three-part window spanning two storeys. The southern, now visible facade was largely built in and blind, apart from a vertical series of windows, which provides daylight to the internal corridor and light shaft.

INTERIOR: The layout is created by a T-shaped internal street structure four storeys high. The storage departments are finished towards the streets with fair-faced facades of yellow three-brick courses, provided with wall anchors in a whip-stitch motif. The long internal street is lit from the southern side facade by a glazed partition wall over the full height. The connections between the different departments are made by galleries and aerial bridges extending into and over the streets. In one street arm later intermediate floors have been inserted which reduce the transparency of the interior. The individual storage rooms possess original, varied support structures, in most cases wall brackets with support construction beneath the floor joists and sometimes with half-posts incorporated in the walls. In the northern street arm an original, open lift structure. Doors largely in original condition.

Valuation

Building of general cultural-historical and architectural-historical importance:

- because of the lively and colourful Transitional style of the exterior, disturbed only in a small part, and highly representative for its function;

- because of the virtually intact interior with remarkable (light) streets, aerial bridges and galleries;

- because of the rarity of this type of building from the turn-of-the-century period.