Woonhuis, Stationsstraat 28

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

GENTLEMAN'S HOUSE located in the building line of Stationsstraat. The house built around 1875 is built in Eclectic style. Various details in Art Nouveau manner, stemming from a renovation of approximately 1910. Stationsstraat leads from the old city centre to the railway line. The largely detached house is situated on the street side of a long and narrow plot. On the left gable a handmade brick wall with a wooden latched door providing access to the back plot with ornamental garden adjoins it. The small outbuilding located on the back plot is outside the national monument protection.

Description.

The partially cellared house covers a roughly square plan and comprises two storeys and a roof storey beneath a muffled improved Dutch tile clad flat hipped roof with ridge mouldings and newly built chimneys and roof dormers. The house is built in English bond, executed with cut joints and handmade brick.

The symmetrical, four-bay-wide cornice-topped facade on Stationsstraat is articulated horizontally and vertically by a plastered main entablature with wooden corniced gutter, a cordon moulding, a parapet with ashlar plinth and corner pilasters, all provided with decoratively plastered fields and casements. Further enlivenment by means of rendered quoins. Slightly projecting second bay with on the ground floor rusticated pilasters on either side of a highly decoratively carved wooden panelled door with facet-cut glass in Art Nouveau manner and on the storey an oriel window projecting on three sides on brackets and corbels and consisting of a parapet with panels, a composite window and a fanlight furnished with coloured leaded glass. Window openings with plastered reveals and arches on ashlar (weep-)sills. Undivided sash windows with rear-pane fanlights filled with purple cathedral glass. Ashlar front step bordered with tapering bollards between wrought-iron decorative chain.

Left gable in fair-faced masonry. On the storey an arched six-light sash window on ashlar weep-sill and on the ground floor a cellar casement under roll course. Former kitchen door blocked. Various wall anchors. Simple surface-mounted brick gutter. Blind right gable cement-rendered. Various wall anchors. Simple surface-mounted brick gutter. Rear gable entirely painted white. The left part of the rear facade is entirely occupied by a remarkable conservatory extension from the beginning of the twentieth century with a partly chamfered, composite wooden frame with geometric glazing bars in the fanlight. On the storey a balcony loggia under lean-to roof on decoratively carved wooden posts and bordered with a matching balustrade with profiled handrail. On the rear roof slope a non-original substantial roof dormer with flat roof. The layout of the interior is largely preserved. Long central corridor leads to the rear facade. On the right side a restrained parlour-and-suite with conservatory extension and on the left side a front room and modernised kitchen on either side of a staircase leading to the similarly laid-out storey.

From the interior, apart from the structure, the following is important: the multi-chambered cellar with barrel vaults between iron box girders, red paving and a wooden latched door; the vestibule with marble floor tiles and plinths and a draught frame with door and windows furnished with panels and etched glass; the corridor with matching floor tiles and plinths, chamfered corner posts and a staircase; various rooms and compartments with plastered cornice work on the ceilings or figurative stucco with portrait heads, parquet floors, window blinds with panels, various marble fireplaces, firebox with plastered Ionic pilasters, panelled doors with profiled mouldings - some furnished with simply executed cornices-, cupboard with panels and small glazing bars, and carpentry with panels.

Valuation.

The gentleman's house is of general importance. The object has cultural-historical value because of the importance of the floor plan for the typological development of the gentleman's house. The object has architectural-historical value because of the aesthetic qualities of the architectural design, the careful ornamental work and the refined detailing in the facades and large parts of the interior. The object has ensemble values as part of the historical, largely open linear development on the west side of Stationsstraat. There is an architectural and visual relationship with adjoining buildings. The object is important because of the integrity of the main form and the many preserved elements from the interior.