Woonhuis, Harlingersingel 7

English translation

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Description

VILLA, built in 1906 to designs by Hendrik Kramer in the Transitional style on a corner plot between the lodging house De Groene Weide and the newly formed Pier Panderstraat. The client was Aaltje de Boer (* 1846), widow of Hans Aukes Bontekoe, who moved into the new villa with servants on 12 March 1906. The building date can be read in the weathervane of the corner turret.

The area of the western city moat zone underwent a major spatial intervention in 1900 with the construction of the tramway to Marssum. In the north the tramway route ran between the freshwater pond and bread factory to obtain branch-off points at the present Pier Panderstraat towards the depots built behind mill Het Lam. The route then continued over the Harlingersingel, with the lodging house De Groene Weide as a stop, before turning towards the Harlingerstaatweg. To the northeast of the depots a neighbourhood of small-scale adjoining middle-class dwellings was established in 1903 on private initiative between Harlingerstraat and Tramstraat. On the corner of Pier Panderstraat and Harlingersingel and immediately south of De Groene Weide the villa described here was built in 1906. Around 1910 the Harlinger- and Westersingel were largely built up, interrupted only by Westerpark. It is precisely on the corner where different spaces meet and form a not entirely clear structure that the villa is a striking and lively articulated building, surrounded by a garden in an otherwise stony environment.

Description

EXTERIOR: Corner building on a lively ground plan with varied volumetric treatment through projecting and recessed sections. Mostly two storeys with a flat roof, but with sections provided with hipped roofs that appear only one storey high; two other elements rise higher with their roofs: the bay element and the tower. On the northeast side the trapezium-shaped bay section over two storeys with a hipped roof with zinc corner crockets. Almost in the middle of the east side the entrance section with a stone threshold, original carved door with lights and fanlight with Art Nouveau glass-in-lead, above it a balcony on corbels and sheltered French doors and flat roof. The southeast corner section appears lower due to the clipped hipped roofs and the tower section which rises here at the corner and is crowned by an octagonal spire with zinc finial and weathervane. Near the corner on the south side a conservatory of vertical and horizontal timberwork is built out. In the middle of the side facade a section with an arched gable top with zinc finial projects slightly. The southwest section is one storey high and provided with a large balcony with a natural stone balustrade.
The building is erected on a stone plinth of greyish-brown brick, decorated with sill bands of artificial stone, the corner tower also with vertical corner pilasters of artificial stone. The walls are terminated by friezes of bonded decorative panels under moulded roof gutters on carved consoles. All roofs and hipped roofs covered with slate in Dutch bond. All wall openings with variously formed windows and window sections have square heads; mostly covered by artificial stone lintels, sometimes with segmental relieving openings and arch rings of decorative brickwork.

Surrounding garden, separated from the public road by an iron gate in Art Nouveau forms on a brick retaining wall.

INTERIOR: The original layout is unchanged, but the furnishings have undergone some alterations by various occupants. The vestibule has a marble floor and a glass panel door in a decorative frame. The corridor, also with a marble floor, is articulated towards the sides and rear by simply moulded, stuccoed archways. In the middle of the north side the spacious stairwell with balustrades with carved balusters and a window with glass-in-lead which is neither original nor appropriate, but nonetheless decorative. Mostly original framed panelled doors and in the living rooms fireplace installations in Neo-Renaissance style. Throughout flat stuccoed ceilings; in the kitchen ceiling of pearl boarding. The rooms on the south connected to each other by a suite door with solid panelled sliding doors; between the front room and conservatory no longer a door. Kitchen refitted, but tiling with decorative imitation marble on the plinth, as well as the large kitchen cupboard still present. On the first floor largely original layout. Around the spacious upper hall the panelled doors to the rooms, one relocated.

VALUATION

The villa with gate is of general architectural-historical, architectural and urban planning importance

- because of the important place the building occupies in the renewal period in the oeuvre of the prominent architect Hendrik Kramer;

- because of the externally intact and internally nearly intact Transitional style, expressed in a particularly lively articulation and restrained detailing;

- because of the striking place the villa occupies in the northwest city moat zone protected as an urban townscape where the corner building forms the space and the tower marks the corner.