Cafe de Hollande

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former Hotel De Hollande, ca. 1900, situated at the corner of Markt and Putstraat and built in eclectic style. The rich stained glass of the fanlights dates from the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Description

Strikingly ornamented corner building in three storeys on a rectangular ground plan with chamfered corner. The building is cellared and fills the plot completely. The whole is covered by a mansard roof with slates in Maasdecking, gutters, a balustrade attic and four dormer windows with chalet overhang. These dormer windows are placed in the roof slope and vary in size and execution. Two large dormers above the facade on the Markt side and above the chamfered corner section with slate roof, chalet overhang, vertically subdivided wooden round-arched windows and horizontally subdivided wooden stained-glass windows. The two small dormers above the facade on the Putstraat have identical window arrangement, but lack a chalet overhang and are covered with zinc. New brick chimney.

The building is constructed in brick, laid in English bond with cut joints. Hardstone rusticated plinth and hardstone window sills. Wrought-iron grilles for the basement windows. The first storey is plastered, has imitation joints and is decorated with ornamental stucco. Various ornaments in stucco and plastered spandrels in the second and third storeys. The chamfered, projecting corner section divides two facade sections, one on the Markt with two windows and one on the Putstraat with four frames per storey. The right half of the facade section on the Putstraat is also projecting. The corner section contains a rectangular entrance door, placed in a frame with columns of the Composite order, which as it were carry an entablature. Both columns are based on the hardstone plinth and extend into the brackets of the bay window in the second storey. Between the hardstone bases are two steps. The square door fanlight is furnished with stained glass and crowned by a stuccoed pediment with corbels. The bay window brackets are decorated with diamond-head motifs and cassette motifs. The bay window in the second storey has a rectangular wooden T-window with four-pane fanlight and stained glass. On the short sides of the bay window rectangular wooden windows with stained glass. The bay window lacks the original balustrade. Above the bay window, in the third storey, a round-arched wooden T-window with stained glass and roll moulding with stuccoed impost and voussoir stones. The voussoir stone serves as a small gutter bracket. On the corners of the chamfered facade section two considerable gutter brackets stuccoed in the form of human heads.

The FACADE ON THE MARKT SIDE has in the first storey two tall, round wooden sash windows with stained-glass fanlights. The original tracery of the fanlights has disappeared, the stained glass is protected with storm frames. The profiled stucco arches of the stucco window frames have a voussoir stone with diamond-head motif. In the second storey two rectangular wooden T-windows with stained glass and stuccoed triangular pediment with scallop motif. Below these windows the frame with the inscription 'Hotel De Hollande' is still visible. In the third storey two round-arched wooden T-windows with stained glass. Roll mouldings with impost and voussoir stones in stucco. The voussoir stones serve as gutter brackets. The gutter brackets on the facade corners are stuccoed in the form of small human heads. The left bracket is situated on a narrow projecting section.

The four-bay FACADE ON THE PUTSTRAAT has in the second and third storeys twice the same arrangement as the second and third storey of the Markt facade. The two eastern bays, however, project. In the first storey below the first and second bay is a considerable wooden sash window with basket-arch fanlight, furnished with round-arch tracery and stained glass. In the third bay a narrower round-arched wooden sash window with round-arched fanlight, furnished with round-arch tracery and stained glass. Next to it, in the fourth bay and recessed in a narrow porch, the rectangular wooden panelled door with two coupled round-arched fanlights with stained glass. Above this the porch has a stuccoed entablature on brackets, above which a second rectangular fanlight with triangular pediment including scallop motif.

The arrangement of the INTERIOR is characterised in the first storey by a high stuccoed ceiling with soffit mouldings, partly hidden from view by a recent intermediate storey. The former hotel storeys have been converted to residential space and have a newly partitioned, modernised interior.

Valuation

The former Hotel De Hollande from circa 1900 is of general interest due to its age; the stylistic representativeness of the building; its urban planning significance (on the basis of form, volume, articulation, situation); the substantial contribution of the building to the protected townscape of Sittard.