Woonhuis, Pelikaanstraat 17

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Description

DOUBLE VILLA, Pelikaanstraat 17 and 23 (adjoining; numbers 19 and 21 do not exist), together with numbers 25 and 27 and 29 and 31 forming part of the complex of three double villas. Designed in 1930 in Interwar Architecture by D. Kalma and G. Witteveen on Pelikaanstraat, which during that period was built up predominantly with townhouses in rows and pairs and a few detached villas. Of the three double villas, this pair is in the most original state; number 17 is nearly original; number 23 has a number of original aspects. On this prestigious street, these tall double villas with high thatched roofs form the highlight.

Description

EXTERIOR: The double villa is built on nearly rectangular floor plans with recesses at the corners and bay window extensions in the middle of the front elevation; single-storey extensions for sculleries and coal sheds on the rear elevation. Two storeys high with high thatched roof. The pair of dwellings has no built-out gable top. All elevations in mixed orange-red brick in triple-bond format, laid in a herringbone-like bond with recessed joint lines. The dwellings numbers 17 and 23 have in the middle a bay window coupled with the adjacent property, with a large window with narrow side lights on the front. Each dwelling has on the corner a sturdy, brickwork pier with a projected course for every four layers and on the side a tall window with fanlight. On the first floor a balcony with closed, brickwork parapet for french doors with side lights. At the corner of the recessed section, on both ground floor and first floor, corner windows with tall windows on front and side. Behind the recess the entrance section placed in the front or side elevation under a concrete canopy. The original doors are provided with mouldings and door lights in geometric shapes. For front elevation doors, the free side at the entrance section is bounded by a parapet wall aligned with the side wall. From the entrance section the thatched side slope continues downwards, with that slope further interrupted by a three-part window for lighting the stairwell. Further on the ground floor in the side elevation a three-part kitchen window. The rear elevation is on the ground floor in the middle slightly extended to a bay section coupled with the adjacent property with french doors and side lights, and at the corner with an extended scullery with coal shed. Above it a continuous flat roof with wooden railing; above the bay french doors with side lights, above the scullery a glass-panel door with side light. From both the front and rear slope of the thatched roof a centrally coupled roof dormer with two two-part windows is extended. Next to the roof dormer on the rear slope a tall chimney is brickworked.

The front garden is bounded from the public road by brickwork walls with piers, between which not all swing gates are still present.

INTERIOR: The original layout of most of the dwellings has been modernised. Number 17 is the most original in terms of layout. The vestibule has a granito floor, white with black border, beige tile wainscoting with black edges and a double glass-panel door provided with vertical strips of coloured leaded glass. The staircase in quarter turns runs over the vestibule with balustrade and parapet panels with a recessed wave motif characteristic of the architects. In the hall the simple wainscoting consists of flat panels which on the sides are finished with fine wave mouldings. Otherwise simple panelled doors are all still present with the frames with a rounded profile, on the first floor several still with original handles. The rooms en suite have the doors with sliding doors with glazing bars and cupboards; on both sides an open cupboard and one with a wallpapered door. In the front room a renewed chimney breast; from the corner windows the simple leaded glass has been removed. Ceilings in hall and rooms lined with board panels forming a frame pattern. Below the side windows of the rear doors with french doors traversally placed fitted children's benches with toy storage beneath the seats. The four-part lighting of the stairwell above is provided with decorative leaded glass in clear, red, lilac and purple. The ceiling of the landing is lined; the rooms have the original beam ceilings. The bedrooms have wall cupboards which in part have been carefully reversed. On the second floor rooms are lined, some of which have been renewed.

In number 23 the en suite doors with cupboards between the living areas are still present. Like the original chimney breast, this door section is lightly altered. The kitchen is connected to the rear room with a breakthrough. The rooms are still heated largely with the original radiators; in the kitchen with a metal plate warming cabinet. The panelled doors placed in rounded frames are original. The vestibule with glazed door with glazing bars, tiled wainscoting and hall with stairwell with the wooden balusters with recessed wave motif characteristic of Kalma and Witteveen are original. The layout of the floors is original with beam ceilings, panelled doors, cupboard walls. The room on the southwest side originally fitted out as a small office with a wide desk recess built-in cupboard and book recess on the roof slope. Rooms on the second floor under the roof, lined with wooden plank walls. The maid's room with a fold-out cupboard incorporating a washbasin.

VALUATION

The double villa is of general architectural-historical, architectural and urban design importance

- as characteristic examples of villas by the architect pair Kalma and Witteveen;

- on account of the externally nearly intact, representative and voluminous liveliness and the internal, at number 23 somewhat modernised clear articulation and simple arrangement in Interwar Architecture;

- on account of the volume effect of the three tall double villas with high thatched roofs and symmetrically ordered, which particularly through their lively spatial articulation form the highlight on the prestigious street.