Woonhuis, Spoorlaan 330

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Two former dwelling houses from 1904 in Neo-Renaissance style with Art Nouveau details. They were presumably built after a design by Tilburg architect C.F. van Hoof. The houses were in use in 1998 as student society St. Olof. They are situated on a rectangular plot, on the continuous facade row of Spoorlaan with the front or north facade facing the street. In 1987 the basement of both houses is enlarged at the back with a cellar.

Description

The houses have three storeys at the front and four storeys at the back with an attic storey. The lowest storey is a basement. They are covered by a slated gabled roof with mansard at the front. At the back on the fourth storey there is a roof terrace. The symmetrical front facade is four bays wide. The inner and the two outer bays are identical to each other. In the basement the outer bay has three narrow segment-arched windows. On the piano nobile a three-sided wooden bay window with decoration of cut and turned work with round-arched windows in the fanlights. On the third storey a three-sided balcony with a wooden balustrade and Art Nouveau ornamental wrought-iron balusters. The recessed rear facade has double doors with side and fanlights covered by a large segment arch. The facade is closed by a cornice with arched frieze. Beneath the gutter three stone corbels. In the roof pediment a wooden roof turret with tympanum crown. Both inner bays have a tall entrance section provided with a segment arch with a double fanlight with leaded glass and stone calf. The front door with panels, cut work and wrought-iron window grilles and three-part fanlights. On the third storey a straight-sided sash window covered by a segment arch. Both middle bays form in the roof one stone roof turret in which two arched windows. The roof turret with claw pieces is crowned by a tympanum with small pilaster. The sills of all the fanlights in the facade are executed as a tooth moulding. The facing work of the front facade consists of red wirecut brick laid in Dutch bond. The masonry is interrupted by whitewashed cement pointing courses and yellow facing brick in the segment arches, springers and keystones and corbels beneath the gutter. The pointing courses have an extra accent at the wall piers. The basement has a hardstone plinth. The brick noggings beside the wooden bay windows stand at an angle of 45 degrees. Both bay windows of the houses are supported by ornamented stone corbels. The plastered rear and side facades are executed in sober form. The interiors of the houses are largely authentic. Both with wooden main staircases, panelled doors with bossing and plaster ceilings with moulding work in corridors and rooms. No. 330 has an oak carved fireplace mantel with Ionic columns and cherub head.

Valuation

The houses are of general importance. They have cultural-historical importance as an example of a socio-economic development, namely the construction of richly detailed town houses within the existing urban structure and are also important as examples of the typological development of the dwelling house. Architecturally they are important because of the style and the place in the architect's oeuvre. The houses are important because of the integrity of their exterior and have ensemble value as part of a townscape characterised by structural and visual integrity.