Kruidenierswinkel, Emmakade 2

English translation

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Description

Introduction

CORNER BUILDING originally containing two SHOPS WITH DWELLINGS ABOVE, built in 1906 or shortly thereafter in the Transitional style. The name of the architect is not known. In the vicinity stand buildings which reveal the same hand. On the corner was originally a grocer's shop and on the Kanaalstraat a milk seller. Subsequently the building has had various uses, whereby the exterior was scarcely altered but the interior completely. Currently on the ground floor is an antique shop and the upper storeys are arranged as a medical practice and for room rental.

Description

EXTERIOR: CORNER BUILDING on rectangular plan with truncated corner of two storeys plus roof with an irregular bay arrangement, constructed of dark brown brick with bands and other decorations in orange-red facing brick and covered with diamond-shaped artificial slate. The facade on the Emmakade side comprises three window bays, two narrow and one wide. The narrow window bays have large sash windows with an undivided lower pane and twenty-pane fanlights. The windows on the ground floor are closed off above by a stone lintel, followed by a segmental arch in facing brick. The windows on the upper storey lack the lintel but have latticework in the segmental arch fields. The deeply projecting gutter is carried by worked wooden consoles. The wide window bay projects forward and has on the ground floor a large undivided shop window, set in a hardstone frame, furnished with whiplash motifs and spanned by an exposed steel beam. The lintel rests on worked consoles which truncate the upper corners of the shop window. On the upper storey sits a wide three-light window with undivided lower panes and multi-pane fanlights, set under a segmental arch. The entrance placed at the corner has a brick frame. The upper storey is carried by worked hardstone consoles. This section is extended tower-like above the roofline and crowned by a slightly tapered tent roof with weathervane. On the Kanaalstraat side is located a slightly narrower version of the shop bay on the Emmakade. The next window bay has to the right of a window a round-arched closed relieving panel and on the upper storey a three-light window. The entrance section to the upper dwelling projects slightly, is extended above the roofline and closed with crenellations. On the ground floor beside a door sits a small window, which on the upper storey, following the stair, is repeated. The roof storey has a small version of the three-light window. The entrance of the second shop is set under an almost complete round arch of facing brick, of which the doors have been replaced by a window. On the upper storey are three windows of unequal width. The covering of the truncated hipped roof has been changed from slate to shingles. The hips are enlivened by roof dormers with lean-to roofs and small roof windows, provided with witch's hats.

INTERIOR: The ground floor has been completely altered. The first upper storey has also been altered and has lowered ceilings. The stair to the second upper storey is one of the few original interior components.

Valuation

SHOP BUILDING of general architectural-historical and cultural-historical importance:

- on account of the lively architecture in the Transitional style with notably detailed shop fronts;

- on account of the urban-design marked location at the beginning of the Nieuwe Kanaalwijk where it has, with the striking bridge-keeper's building on the opposite street corner (Kanaalstraat 2), an important visual function, which is further underscored by the truncated corner and the small tower.