Woonhuis, Stationsstraat 26

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

A TOWNHOUSE WITH ACCESS GATE situated behind the building line of the Stationsstraat. The building, constructed around 1905, belongs stylistically to Transitional Architecture, with considerable influences from Art Nouveau. The Stationsstraat leads from the old city centre to the station. The detached building, with front and rear gardens partly laid out as ornamental garden, is situated on a long and narrow plot. Along the left gavel a brick wall with a saddle back and a wooden clamped door providing access to the rear garden. Along the right gavel the gate of the neighbouring property. The shed situated on the rear garden falls outside the national monument protection.

Description.

The building, partly with a basement, has a virtually L-shaped floor plan and comprises two storeys and an attic storey beneath a hipped roof clad with curved tiles, composite and flattened. On the rear gavel in the angle a single-storey conservatory extension on a roughly square floor plan. On the roof panels still several slender chimneys provided with brick courses and on the street side a roof dormer under overhanging lean-to roof containing casement windows with small, geometric glazing bars in the lower zone. Similar roof dormer in the rear roof panel replaced by a roof window. The brick building is laid in header bond with tooled jointing.

The asymmetrical gavel on the Stationsstraat, with a chamfered right corner, is three bays wide. Centrally a three-sided closed entrance porch under horseshoe arch with stone steps. Above it an equally three-sided closed loggia, marked with two coupled, heavily sprung horseshoe arches on a brick central pier with ornamental wrought-iron balusters. The right bay is closed off with a spout gavel furnished with a stone coping and like crowning elements. The transition of the resulting corner superstructure to the chamfering is softened by elegantly worked stone blocks. The gavel is further articulated and enlivened by a brick plinth with stone covering running along the lower section and by the decorative use of variously coloured facing brick for among others brick courses, pseudo-relieving arches and an ornamental frieze with decorative brickwork beneath the overhanging brick gutter on consoles. Stone is besides the aforementioned elements also applied in decoratively carved or arranged setting and closing stones, shaped pieces, (drip) sills, lintels and arch elements. Simple, straight-closing sash windows. Entrance in the centre with a moulded, double door with panels and facet-cut windows with small glazing bars and a semicircular fanlight furnished with coloured leaded glass. Casement doors of the upper loggia and the straight-closing upper-light window likewise furnished with coloured leaded glass. The front garden is separated from the street by ornamental wrought-iron railings in Art Nouveau style.

In the left gavel a vaulted and grilled basement air vent, a small ventilation window of the former privy and a basement window furnished with coloured leaded glass in a cross window under segmental arch. Simple, adjoining brick gutter. Blank right gavel with similar gutter.

The three-bay-wide rear gavel is entirely rendered white. The right two bays project. In the angle a simplified conservatory extension above which a balcony with ornamental wrought-iron balustrade. Mostly recessed gavel openings under segmental arches with straight-closing, coupled frames containing sash windows and doors furnished with original fanlights with small, geometric glazing bars in the lower zone. Setbacks on the storey of moulded stone. At the rear gavel adjoins a terrace laid with red tiles.

The layout of the interior has been preserved. The vestibule gives access to the hall around which the various rooms are grouped. On the left side a front room, the kitchen with basement access, the former privy and a stair to the comparably laid-out upper storey. On the right side a room-and-suite enlarged into one space with conservatory extension. On the attic storey the former maid's room directly adjoining the stairwell.

From the interior, apart from the layout, the following are important: the two-part basement with black tiles; the vestibule and hall with white marble floor tiles and wall panelling; the stair with decoratively carved starting baluster; the kitchen with the old chimney breast and various rooms and spaces with diverse stucco ceilings or stuccoed wall trim, panel doors with moulded door frames and marble fireplaces. Further various door and window panes with etched glass and coloured leaded glass.

Valuation.

The townhouse with access gate is of general importance. The object has cultural-historical value because of the importance of the floor plan for the typological development of the townhouse. The object has architectural-historical value because of the importance of the external appearance and applied style elements—such as the relatively rare arches of the loggia—for architectural history, the aesthetic quality of the architectural design and the carefully executed ornamentation in the front gavel and parts of the interior. The object has ensemble values as part of the historical, largely open ribbon development on the west side of the Stationsstraat. An architectural relationship exists with adjacent buildings. The object is of importance because of the intactness of the main form and parts of the interior.