Complex Nieuwlandstraat

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

The TOWNHOUSE WITH OFFICE was built in 1901 for A.M.A. Kerstens, one of the partners of the cashiers' firm Kerstens and De Charro. It has been in use as a dwelling house since 1999. The building forms part of an unbroken facade wall in the city centre.

Description.

The two-storey building with rectangular floor plan has four bays and is semi-detached. On the truncated mansard roof slate is laid in Maas bond. The facades are built in machine-made brick. The front facade is a pilaster facade with a central main entrance, accentuated by a bay window on the upper floor and a brick gable. The basement is of hard stone, provided with circles with adjoining fields beneath the windows and cushions at the pilasters. The two round-arched windows on the left have a carved relieving lintel and a decorated keystone. The glazed folding doors in the centre give access to the dwelling and are provided with carved brass door furniture. Furthermore, the doors are richly provided with ornament and wrought-iron door grilles. The extra-wide bay on the right contains a gateway with a basket-arch shaped fanlight. Between glazed side and upper panels with wrought-iron grilles for the windows is located in the centre the panel door of the former office. The polygonal wooden bay window in the centre has diamond carvings in the breastplate, as also executed in hard stone below and beside the windows on the upper floor. The bay window rests on hard stone brackets provided with foliate carving and has delicate woodcarving in the mullions and drip moulding. The bay windows possess, as do the other windows, glass-in-lead fanlights. In the middle between the windows of the ground floor rises the carved hard stone base of the polygonal wrought-iron balcony. Here open doors emerge, flanked by narrow side windows. The fanlights of these are separately placed under lintel with segmental arch and brick mosaic filling. This finish, as well as the carved keystone, is also applied above the broad six-light composite window above the entrance of the former office. Above the windows is a frieze with tooth moulding and a drip moulding on corbels, supported by volute-shaped brackets. This drip moulding is interrupted at the height of the bay window by a wrought-iron balcony placed on its roof, with protruding form with curl motif, in front of a gable. This is of brick with a rising round-arch frieze, corner pinnacle with obelisk and an open window with semi-circular fanlight. On either side of this a roof dormer with round-arched windows and segmental-arch shaped tympanum. At the corners of the roof shield stand natural stone obelisks as pinnacles. The right side facade has on the ground floor two arched T-windows and on the upper floor in the centre a small identical window, all with hard stone sills. The rear site is closed on the right by a high wrought-iron fence with spikes and arrowheads.

Valuation

The building is of general importance. It has cultural-historical value as an example of a socio-economic development, namely the prosperity of industry and the establishment of manufacturers' residences within the old urban structure; it is also of importance for the typological development of the manufacturers' dwelling. From an architectural-historical perspective, it is important because of its style and very rich and carefully executed ornament, as well as the use of materials. The complex is important because of the great degree of integrity of the exterior and in relation to the structural and visual integrity of the urban environment.