Stern Eck

English translation

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Description

The description is as follows:

Introduction VILLA 'Stern Eck', built in the years 1899-1900 (foundation stone) by order of Mr. W. Braicks. The villa is built in a simple eclectic style and is characterized by flattened pointed gables, remarkable roof dormers and the applied French roof form. The kitchen and service rooms are entirely accommodated according to the usage of the time in a sober single-storey extension at the rear.

The villa is situated on the polder side of the Rijksstraatweg. The character of this area is determined mainly by the buildings of large and small villas in Neo-Classical, Neo-Renaissance, and Art Nouveau forms. The properties are situated on spacious plots on both sides of the street and were built by wealthy Dutch people who settled here from the nineteenth century onwards because of the attractive landscape. The property has remained in virtually original condition. Around 1910 the block with kitchen and service rooms at the rear was enlarged. With its west gable the property stands close to the adjacent building, whilst the property is surrounded on the rear and east sides by a spacious garden, which consists of gravel areas directly around the house and furthermore mainly lawns in which, among other things, two old chestnut trees stand. On the street side the garden is now bounded by a yew hedge and the plot is accessible via two ACCESS GATES. The original double carriage gate was stolen around 2000 and replaced by a new one in 2007. This ironwork is of subordinate importance. The still present, originally small ironwork is of monumental importance.

Description

Small, detached and partly cellar villa built in brick on a composite ground plan. The main volume of the property is one storey and a loft storey high and is covered with a composite roof. This roof consists of a mansard roof with the ridge direction parallel to the front facade and an attached high-rising hipped roof over the flattened pointed gable. At the front there are furthermore two striking roof dormers with overhanging tent roofs crowned with small zinc finials. The roof panels are laid at the front with slates in Maas coverage and at the rear with dampened cross pantiles. Drainage takes place via a fairly heavy, profiled rain gutter on ornamented brackets. On the roof there is a simple chimney. The kitchen section built onto the rear has one storey and is flat-roofed. The facades have a hard stone plinth at the front facade and a grey-rendered plinth at the side and rear facade. The facades are built in English bond and for livening up, decorative brickwork is applied on a modest scale and white rendered work in the form of drip mouldings, brick straps and keystones. Remarkable is the richly executed carved work on wooden components such as the conservatory and the roof dormers. Within the facades, on the first storey mainly sash windows (T-sash windows and undivided sash windows) are applied and on the upper storey mainly casement windows under three-part fanlights. At the top the facade openings are mainly closed with stretches, in the front facade mainly segmental arches are used. The window frames are black, frames and roof edges are painted white.

The asymmetrically divided FRONT FACADE consists of a straight-ended facade section three bays wide on the left and a section running through as a gable on the right. The front facade is provided with a drip moulding under the windows of the first storey and a brick strap halfway up the fanlights in the first storey. On the left are two segmental-arched T-sash windows below which are fields with decorative brickwork in yellow and red facing brick. On the right is the segmentally closed main entrance, preceded by two hard stone steps. The wooden panel door under single-ruite fanlight has two panes with wrought iron grilles with scrollwork. The lower panel of the door is provided with carved work. The large roof dormers in the left front slope have casement windows under three-pane fanlights. These are surrounded by finely worked stiles with worked brackets at the top that carry the tent roof projecting on the front and sides. The right section has over the first storey a four-sided bay window with two sash windows in the front and a sash window in each side. Below the windows in the front is a continuous field with decorative brickwork as described. The bay window is closed with a rendered gutter frieze on which the name of the house is applied and a profiled cornice under which the bay window is covered with a curved hipped roof with flat, the panels of which are covered with slates in right Rhine coverage. The flat is bordered with a wooden decorative moulding. In the second storey is a narrow round-arched closed casement window. The RIGHT SIDE FACADE of the main volume has the form of a broad, flattened pointed gable, which makes a slight bend in the middle. The facade has drip mouldings and a brick strap and has in the first storey on the left the finely detailed conservatory consisting of a wooden superstructure on a cemented basement. The conservatory is built up of wooden stiles and rails, the lower structure being filled in and above large glass surfaces exist with geometric glazing bars. The front of the conservatory has a single sliding door. The stiles are worked. The conservatory is closed with overhanging roof edge on brackets and a carved roof edge. Leading to the entrance of the conservatory are two hard stone steps. To the right T-sash windows, and on the upper storey are two casement windows. These three windows have shutters. The single-storey section is closed on all sides under the roof edge with a dentil frieze. In the side facade on the left is a T-sash window and on the right a non-original window. The REAR FACADE of the kitchen section is provided with a high rendered plinth projection. On the far left runs a bricked-up flue. To the right of this is an open, arched cellar opening with above it a newly installed window. A bricked staircase leads to a service entrance. On the far right is an original sash window under three-pane fanlight. The recessed rear facade of the main volume has at the height of the communicating rooms an original external door under single-pane fanlight and a T-sash window, both provided with a shutter. A few bricked steps lead to the door. Above the kitchen block protrudes a flattened gable of the main volume, in which is a straight-closed casement window. The LEFT SIDE FACADE is virtually blind, on the upper storey are two casement windows. The left side facade of the kitchen extension has a window with clamped shutter under roll moulding.

The layout of the INTERIOR is unchanged and consists of a corridor with staircase, two living rooms in the right aisle and communicating rooms in the left aisle. In the single-storey extension, in addition to the kitchen, also toilet and storage rooms are accommodated and on the upper storey are some simple bedrooms. Among the preserved interior components are polychrome pattern tiles in the corridor, a marbled wainscot in corridor and stairwell, a particularly finely worked staircase (partly curved soft staircase) with carved work in the staircase wall, stucco ceilings in virtually all rooms, wooden doors and chimney mantels executed in marble.

Valuation

VILLA 'Stern Eck', built in the years 1899-1900

-Of architectural historical value as a sound and good example of a small villa of around 1900 in simple eclectic style, which stands out because of aesthetic qualities in interior and exterior such as the fine main form with mansard roof and high hipped and tent roofs and the carefully shaped details such as the well-preserved carved woodwork. The interior still contains many original components.

-Of urban planning value as part of the villa development on the Rijksstraatweg, which to a high degree determines the character of this street. Here the property, as one of the best-preserved smaller villas, plays a major role in maintaining the street scene.

-Of cultural historical value as an expression of a socio-geographical development, as an example of suburban development in a landscape-attractive area in the surroundings of Nijmegen, where wealthy Dutch people increasingly settled from the nineteenth century onwards.