Huis Cronenburch

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former RESIDENCE 'Huis Cronenburch' with museum from 1906 in richly ornamented Transitional style designed by architect B. van Bilderbeek. The client was his cousin, notary mr. W.H. van Bilderbeek, who also intended the house for displaying his modern paintings and ceramics collection (now in the Dordts Museum). From 1919 to 1951 the building was used as the Rijksmuseum Van Bilderbeek-Lamaison, after which it served as a district court. The corner plot is enclosed with an iron FENCE. The back garden partially overhangs the Wijnhaven and has a bricked GARDEN WALL at the Nieuwbrugzijde with an iron gate.

NB In 1954 the building was extended at the rear on the upper floor, with the kitchen being given an additional storey.

Description

The corner building has a rectangular floor plan and is built in brick above a granite base. The building is partly cellared, has two storeys and an attic storey beneath a gabled roof covered with slate (Maasdecking). The front facade and right side facade have a stepped gable with mansard roof. The moulded wooden cornices rest on wooden corbels. Zinc gutters with the imprint anno 1906. The facades are enlivened with lintels, cornices and bands of Oberkirchner sandstone. The rectangular windows have wooden frames and most have fanlights with stained glass. The windows are provided at the top with sandstone lintels with engraved motifs and at the bottom with granite thresholds.

In the front facade on the right the entrance with a broad sandstone surround, accessible via two granite steps. The arched front door has a window behind an iron grille and narrow sidelights on both sides, also behind ironwork. Above the door two fanlights with narrow sidelights on both sides, all with stained glass. Motifs are engraved in the sandstone and above the door is the text in gold leaf "Salus huic domut". In the corners carved squirrels. On the left an arched service entrance with nine-pane fanlight.

On the right a rounded facade corner with ground windows with on the upper storey a corner bay window supported on stepped, natural stone consoles with engraved scrollwork motifs and shells in stucco in the corners. The bay window has three windows with fanlights with stained glass set in sandstone surrounds and an identical window with fanlight on each side. Above the bay window a balcony with crenellated parapet. To the balcony a glass door with narrow sidelights and in the chamfered facade sides a six-pane window.

The right side facade has on the ground floor on the left a semicircular bay window with ground windows and sandstone mullions. Next to it two windows with two-part fanlight, on the upper storey three windows with two-part fanlight. The sandstone lintels of these window openings are placed under a bricked segmental arch and have sandstone corner stones. In the stepped gable a three-part window with glazing bars of which the centre window is round-arched.

In the side facade a sandstone sundial is installed with iron hands, indicating the time every half hour between 10 and 17 o'clock. On the far right is a bay window over two storeys supported on stepped natural stone consoles with engraved scrollwork motifs. At the front of the bay window two sash windows with stained glass. Above this a window with glazing bars and a small balconette with glass door. The bay window is crowned with a square turret with bell roof. The back facade has on the ground floor a bay window with chamfered sides with three windows with three-part fanlight. Above it a balcony with bricked balustrade and hardstone edge. To this French doors with three-part fanlight. Next to the balcony a small three-sided bay window crowned with bricked balustrade. In the stepped gable a three-part window with glazing bars of which the centre window is round-arched.

The interior is virtually intact and provided with many special details such as stained glass windows, carved woodwork and stucco. Of the small number of living rooms a number are very spacious, in favour of displaying the paintings. The central hall has functioned as an exhibition space and is therefore provided with a large fanlight. The draught lobby has marble floors and side walls, a finely stuccoed barrel vault and a glass door, with stained glass in fanlight and sidelights. In the hall the wainscoting, flight stairs and ceiling beams are of oak. Stairs and ceilings are trimmed with printed fabrics, so-called lincrusta. The ceiling beams rest on keystones, the centre beam rests on consoles, in which small monkeys are carved. From the hall arched doors to the adjacent rooms with wooden door surrounds with carved work. The salon at the front is in neo-rococo style and contains among other things wooden wainscoting and wall cupboards with gilded ornamental work, a marble mantelpiece with scrolls, parquet floors with decorations and wooden sliding doors in moulded surrounds. In the cellar a steel safe door by the firm Lips and floors with double-fired tiles. On the upper storey several rooms with among other things marble mantelpieces.

The iron FENCE stands on a bricked base with granite corner stones and edges. Along the back garden a bricked GARDEN WALL at the Nieuwbrugzijde with an iron gate with granite threshold and door surround.

Valuation

Residence with museum from 1906 for the display of paintings and ceramics, in richly ornamented Transitional style, with fence and garden wall, of general importance from a cultural-historical and architectural-historical perspective. The building with its associated overhanging garden is also of importance due to its prominent position and ensemble value with the monumental facade of Wijnstraat.