Woonhuis, Rijksweg Zuid 10

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Detached mansion in a style influenced by Eclecticism, in traditional style, 1908. Situated in the linear building development of the Rijksweg Zuid.

The property was restored in 1992. The coach house of one storey under a flat roof, originally built out from the right side facade, was demolished in 1994 owing to the realisation of high-rise development on the adjacent plot.

The veranda built onto the rear facade is EXCLUDED from protection.

Description

Foremost detached mansion with rectangular GROUND PLAN, lying parallel to the street direction. The property has a basement storey, two STOREYS and an attic storey under a hipped roof with clay tiles and two roof ridge chimneys. Slates on the ridge irons. The front facade is built in red facing brick, the side facades in red brick and the rear facade in greyish-brown brick with yellow brick string courses and red-yellow brick window springing courses. All facades are laid in English bond and repointed. Moulded rendered plinths, stuccoed window and door mouldings with diamond keys in the stones, stuccoed cornices with block-tooth decoration, stuccoed gutter brackets. Wrought-iron gallery columns. All front facade windows have recent stained-glass fanlights and storm casements.

Symmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE with five window axes over two storeys. Moulded rendered plinth, in the first and fifth axes fitted with a segmental arch vertically divided wooden basement window. In front of the plinth in the second, third and fourth axes a rendered brick platform with stone steps. Centrally in the first storey a segmental arch double wooden panelled door with wrought-iron grille in leaf motifs, placed in a stuccoed moulding with diamond key. On either side of the entrance two segmental arch wooden T-windows in a stuccoed moulding. The panelled door and the immediately adjacent windows are situated under a wooden canopy, which is supported by four cast-iron slender columns placed on the platform on stone bases. The second storey has an identical arrangement with a central balcony door. This balcony has a partly wooden balustrade, with wrought-iron balusters. The facade is terminated on either side by corner mouldings with stucco, in imitation rustica. The facade terminates with a cornice with block-tooth decoration, interrupted by figurative stuccoed gutter brackets.

The symmetrically arranged left SIDE FACADE has in the second storey a centrally placed segmental arch wooden T-window, with a springing and an artificial stone sill. Moulded rendered plinth, corner mouldings, cornice with block-tooth decoration.

The right SIDE FACADE has between the first and second storey a centrally placed segmental arch wooden door with fanlight, along which the flat above the coach house was originally accessible. Moulded plinth, corner mouldings, cornice with block-tooth decoration.

The REAR FACADE, fitted with yellow brick string courses and red-yellow brick springing courses, is largely obscured at eye level in the first storey by the veranda built on with sliding doors under a catslide roof. The original rear facade is rendered within the perimeter of the veranda built on the rear platform. The division of the facade has nonetheless remained intact: a series of four rectangular wooden garden doors with nine-pane glazing bar division, bordered by cut glass in each of the four glazing panels; in the middle of the rear facade a rectangular wooden door with four-pane stained-glass window panel; a segmental arch wooden T-window. To the left of the veranda another similar window.

The second storey has on the left and right of the central axis two segmental arch wooden T-windows, between which above the second storey a round cross window and between the first and second storey a segmental arch window with vertical glazing bar. The front garden is surrounded by three brick GATE PIERS, two of which with finial decoration, between which an iron fence. The piers are fitted with a rendered base. The fences rest on rendered brick basements. In the valuable INTERIOR the division has been virtually preserved unchanged. This division is characterised on both storeys by a central corridor, onto which rooms open on either side. Rooms-en-suite. Halfway along the central corridor in the first storey the staircase is placed; in the second storey the former corridor connection to the flat above the coach house demolished in 1994.

Valuation

The mansion represents a matter of general interest owing to the totality of the following qualities. The mansion is of cultural-historical value as an expression of a typological development: the housing of socially prominent persons in the early twentieth century. The architectural-historical values of the mansion are determined by the building style, the high-quality aesthetic quality, the use of materials, the ornamental detail and the coherence between exterior and interior. The mansion, owing to its location, is strongly connected with the development and expansion of Sittard in the first quarter of the twentieth century, is of particular significance for the appearance of the city and has a historical-spatial relationship with the development of the linear building structure along the Rijksweg Zuid. The property, even after the demolition of the coach house, has been preserved in its main form and regarding the interior arrangement virtually completely intact. The mansion is of importance in relation to the structural and visual integrity of the built environment. Moreover, the house has a reasonable architectural-historical and typological rarity value.