Woonhuis, Markt 1

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Description

Introduction.

Located at the corner of the Markt and the Merodestraat, a double dwelling house with garden wall and fence, built in 1897 in a style combining elements of neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau. The building is situated on a narrow but deep plot. The front, right and rear facades are free-standing on the site; belending building adjoins the left facade. A decorative brick chimney at the roof ridge end has disappeared. The interiors are lightly modernised.

Description.

The partially cellared double dwelling house has an approximately L-shaped floor plan and comprises two storeys above cellar or one storey and an attic storey under a flat roof or covered with muted or glazed bull-nose tiles and Dutch tiles, consisting of a compound roof made up of a gabled roof running parallel to the Markt and a mansard roof running parallel to the Merodestraat. Decoratively brick chimney at left roof ridge end of front roof. Furthermore a roof dormer with coupled windows with small glazing bars in the fanlights under an attached gabled roof with lobed bargeboards and roof dormer with wooden clamped shutter under circumferential overhanging hipped roof, both crowned with finials. At the roof eaves profiled gutters on decorative brackets and stacked dentil courses. In the corner formed by the building volumes a terrace and a conservatory extension completely adapted to the style from 1998. At the rear facade an original single-storey outbuilding under slightly pitched gabled roof on rectangular floor plan. The building, laid in clipped joint in running bond, displays in its material use a variation between fair-faced brickwork and plastered and white-painted facade sections. The asymmetrical front facade facing the Markt is six bays wide. The two left bays crowned with slightly projecting spout gable on middle and corner pilasters. Centrally located, coupled entrance doors with two windows on either side. The facade is enlivened through the use of moulded brick in, among other things, reveals, relieving arches and cappings; hard stone for, among other things, pilaster and facade crests, shoulders, arch fillings, start stones, the plinth and (drip) sills; wrought iron for various ornamental wall anchors and further decorative brickwork in, among others, dentil courses, arch fields and speckled joints, partly using coloured brick. Window openings right-angled or under segmental arch, decorated with bush-hammered arch fields or arch fields furnished with decorative bonds or palmettes. Right-angled frames containing T-shaped sash windows with swung side rails and rear panes with fanlights, and glazed, gracefully trellised panel doors with three lights. The tiled front step facing the Markt is bounded by a wrought-iron ornamental fence. The asymmetrical right facade facing the Merodestraat is eight bays wide, of which five bays have two storeys and three bays consist of one storey. Detailing and enlivenment largely as mentioned above. The plinth running along the lower edge steps out as a result of the eastward sloping of the ground level. The lower edge of the plastered facade sections also steps towards the east. On the left a gable with a tensioned and a stepped side. Chimney braced by a number of brick corbels carved as stylised stalactites. Building year inscription '1897' in a frame of fair-faced brickwork on an otherwise plastered facade section. Later built-in memorial stone for persons arrested during World War II. Window openings on the ground floor largely as mentioned in the front facade. On the upper floor a round-arched window to the roof space (gable) and three dormer windows. Staircase with three-fold coupled windows under round arches, and like the below-lying toilet window filled with coloured leaded glass and trellised with twisted window bars. The rear courtyard is separated from the Merodestraat by a brick garden wall adjoining the facade, articulated by casements between pillars with saddle-backs. In the wall an arched access with wooden clamped door. The detailing and enlivenment applied are also consistently carried through in the rear facade with outbuilding. Kitchen door with panels and geometric small glazing bars. Clamped doors in the outbuilding housing the scullery and below-lying storage.

The layout of the interior has been recognisably preserved. At number 1, at the end of a long corridor (with vestibule), the staircase is situated. Adjacent to the staircase is the kitchen, situated entirely at the rear, with underlying cellar. Former adjoining-corridor chamber now enlarged into one space. At number 2, the long corridor leads from an identical vestibule directly to the kitchen situated at the rear. A steep stair to the upper floor and an adjacent cellar stair are situated here approximately halfway along the corridor and thus divide the ground floor into a rear room (with a view of the rear courtyard) and a chamber with a view of the Markt.

From the interiors, the following are among those of importance: the cellars with black floor tiles and a barrel vault between iron rolled-steel joists (at no. 1) and a large, possibly older barrel vault (at no. 2); the identically executed vestibules with marble floor tiles, floral tile wall-cladding, casement-set Art Nouveau paintings, stucco ceilings with panels, and original draught doors mostly with small glazing bars; the corridors with black-edged white marble floor tiles, geometric stucco mouldings, profiled or chamfered corbel arches partly decorated with lion heads (also on the upper floor), and -at no. 2- wooden wainscoting in Art Nouveau style; various rooms with stucco ceilings, marble fireplaces, panel doors with profiled moulding, window shutters and wooden benches beneath the windows (no. 2); the kitchens with polychrome cement tile floors and fireplaces with fireplace beams and coves; steep stairs and landing stairs with decoratively carved newel posts or end baluster and coloured leaded glass windows on the landing (no. 2).

Valuation.

The double dwelling house with garden wall and fence is of general interest. The object possesses cultural-historical values as an elite dwelling, which is connected with its situation. The object furthermore has cultural-historical value on account of the importance of its floor plans and appearance for the typological development of the notable village dwelling and the corner house. The object has architectural-historical values on account of the importance of the style combinations employed in the exterior and interior in combination with the high-quality aesthetic qualities of the architectural design, the very carefully executed and consistently carried through ornamentation and detailing in exterior and interior, and the varied use of materials.

The object has ensemble value as a character-defining and intact component of the building line situated on the historical building line at the corner of the Markt and the Merodestraat. The object is of importance on account of the integrity of its exterior and the many preserved elements from the interior. The object is fairly rare on the basis of various architectural details in the exterior and several elements from the interior.