Woonhuis, Hintham 16

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

A GENTLEMAN'S HOUSE situated in the building line of Hintham with the roof ridge parallel to the street. The building is flanked by two (externally) identical side buildings and is situated on a deep rectangular plot. Rear courtyard with garden approximately 35 metres deep. According to the inscription to the right of the front door 'H.J. / Siepkens / 18-68' the building was constructed in 1868 on the instructions of the then mayor Hendrik Siepkens. It is built in Eclectic style. Siepkens transferred the building, together with a then adjoining leather tannery, to his nephew Jacobus van Elten, who was married to Geertruida van Avezaath. She rented the building in 1911 to A.A.J. Holrah, who established the Sint Antoine institute, a boys' boarding school, here. Holrah also included the side buildings and purchased all the buildings in 1917. In 1918 the buildings were purchased after a financial collapse by the Moral Association of Women In Omnibus Charitas (Den Bosch) and between 1919 and around 1952 the 'sisters of the Choorstraat' established the 'Sint-Josephgesticht', a convent, in the buildings, to which a kindergarten was added in 1925. Around 1952 the sisters departed and a home for job-seeking and working girls was established in the buildings under the name 'Sint Josephzorg'. In the sixties of the 20th century the buildings passed into private ownership.

Internally the building has been partially modernised. The single-storey, L-shaped lean-to addition on the rear dates from a later period and falls outside the protection.

Description.

The brick gentleman's house, one quarter of which is in the basement, occupies a rectangular ground plan. It has two storeys and an attic storey under a hipped roof covered with improved Dutch tiles. On the ridge ends is a small chimney with overhanging top. The building, constructed of machine-made brick in Flemish bond, is made up of five bays. Symmetrical front elevation with lightly profiled, projecting eaves under which a cornice with panels, in the first, third and fifth bays on either side of a circular or eight-sided closed opening. Stone water moulds and parapet with plinth which projects slightly forward at the window positions. Lightly arched facade openings framed with profiled stucco mouldings, on the upper storey with pediments and on the ground floor with floral scrollwork with grape bunch. Six-pane sash windows on the upper storey and four-pane windows with two-part casement as fanlight on the ground floor. Centrally a glazed and wrought-iron barred double panelled door with nail, decorative calf and fanlight with partly coloured stained glass. Above the entrance a facade stone with the convent name. Rear elevation with exposed brick gutter below which three oculi in the first, second and fifth bays. Arched six-pane sash windows under stretches and with stone sills. On the right two cellar windows with anti-theft bars and two-part windows. Layout particularly on the ground floor recognisably preserved with four main rooms on either side of a central corridor. Upper storey with a chapel room with barrel vault on the rear side in the first bay (from the left). Otherwise of particular importance from the interior: cellar with barrel vault in which segmental arches, red floor tiles and a stone staircase; kitchen with fireplace beam and throat and larder, hall with black-and-white marble tiles and brown marble plinth; glazed double rear door (now door to lean-to) with panels and decorative grilles with portrait heads; panelled doors with original door handles and profiled mouldings, partly on stone sills; folding blinds with panels; continuous in- and out-swinging wooden bench under the windows; stuccoed ceilings with geometric and leaf-shaped mouldings featuring floral and figurative representations; attic with wooden Philibert roof trusses.

Valuation.

The gentleman's house is of general interest. The object possesses cultural-historical values in that as a former mayor's residence it gives an impression of the prevailing attitudes of the time regarding representativeness and status. Furthermore, the object as a former institution represents a particular expression of the development of the Congregation of the Moral Association of Women In Omnibus Charitas with respect to care tasks in the social field.

The object has architectural-historical values because of the aesthetic qualities of the design and the careful, detailed ornamentation of particularly the interior elements. It has ensemble values as a distinctive part of the historic development at Hintham. It is of importance because of the architectural integrity of the main form and the many preserved, partly rare interior elements which together provide a very recognisable image of a patrician residence from the second half of the nineteenth century.