Woonhuis, Korte Waterstraat 12

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Description

Introduction.

An irregular building block consisting of two (former) WAREHOUSES (number 14) on the ground floor, a former GARAGE with SHED (number 15) on the ground floor and part of storeys and three DWELLINGS (numbers 12, 16 and 13) on the upper storeys. The entrances are located on the Korte Waterstraat, formerly a three-sided closed cul-de-sac, but now connected via a pedestrian passage to the Binnendieze flowing along the rear. The north side (rear) is open to the Herman Moerkerkplein, the west side borders the narrow Rosenmarijnstraatje. Adjacent buildings on the east side. The block built on behalf of A. Cooijmans was designed in 1916 by architect A.J. van Kempen in a style showing influences of the neo-renaissance. The majority of the reinforced concrete structures were supplied by the N.V. Industrieele Maatschappij F.J. Stulemeyer & Co. in Breda. A concrete slab above the garage came from the Oosterhout firm Martens. The most significant alteration concerns the conversion of part of the former garage (number 15) into a pedestrian passage in 1969. In doing so, the facade opening itself remained intact. The garage was also modified in parts in 1949 and 1974. The block has been partially restored in recent times and whitewashed on the rear side. Internally the dwellings have been lightly modernised. The flat (a void) on the first floor of the dwelling at number 13 was incorporated into the dwelling in 1983. In 1998, a part of the former water gate on the Dieze was reconstructed at the H. Moerkerkplein on the old foundation.

Description.

With the exception of the former garage, the uncellaried brick building block occupies an irregular ground plan. The building volumes grouped in a U-shaped pattern around the Korte Waterstraat have two storeys on the front and an attic storey under a continuous gabled roof, newly fitted with Dutch tiles, with a large roof panel on the front and a small roof panel with the same ridge height but higher roof edge on the rear. Within the roof panels enclosed by stepped gables are various roof dormers under zinc-covered, flattened hipped roofs with eighteen-pane windows with small glazing bars. Partly renewed chimneys on the ridge. At the roof edge a continuous, generous overhanging moulded gutter on carved brackets. On the rear and sides the objects have three storeys under a flat roof, containing various emergency hatches. At the Rosenmarijnstraatje a two- and one-storey extension under a flat roof. At the Dieze a tapering one-storey extension (former shed) under a flat roof which, due to the steepness of the Dieze embankment, has a tall gable end. Sober cornice lines. The block, laid in cut mortar in headers and stretchers, is executed in fair-faced brickwork on the Korte Waterstraat and cemented on the rear and sides. In the recesses of the U-shaped grouped front facades on the Korte Waterstraat are two corner extensions. Long sides of the Korte Waterstraat asymmetrically arranged, short side symmetrical. The facades are articulated and enlivened by a frieze with ornamental brickwork under the gutter; by the use of hardstone for the continuous plinth, several (drainage) dormer stones and setting stones; sandstone for speckled courses, for pseudo-pilasters, for moulded and climbing frames of doorways, doors and fanlights, for the consoles of the corner extensions, for (partly) diamond-headed keystone and form pieces, for continuous under and over dormer stones, for the setting pieces and cover plates of the stepped gables and for a rectangular facade plaque with the inscription 'A(nn)o 1916'. On the ground floor three successive, elegantly fitted and glazed double doors under rounded arches provide access to the (former) warehouses. Other entrances (numbers 12, 13, 15 and 16) with rounded arch frame or square-topped frame with basket arch fanlight with small glazing bars and green glass. Glazed and barred, moulded panel doors with elegant fittings. On the floor cross windows with twenty-pane windows and sash windows with six-pane fanlights. Fanlights with green glass. Sober, mid-stepped rear facade. Windows under stretches with cemented brick sills (now partly replaced by ceramic sills). Mostly stopper windows with a horizontal muntin, fixed windows with one-, two- and four-pane sashes and a composite multi-light window. Simple brick anchors. Here is also located the reconstructed rounding of the water gate. One-storey extension with eighteen- and 24-pane windows on which a flat roof, accessible from the office originally belonging to the garage in the protruding part of the second storey. The likewise mid-stepped side facade at the Rosenmarijnstraatje (west side) is detailed accordingly. Flat of the dwellings with numbers 12 and 16 situated on the extension of the warehouses. The flat of the dwelling (number 13) situated on the east side was originally a void over two storeys. The arrangement of the ground plans has been recognisably preserved with the exception of the former garage. At the dwellings on the first floor a (partly modernised) kitchen, living room, lavatory and a flat accessible from the dwelling are grouped around a corridor with on the second floor still an attic space and a pair of bedrooms. The former warehouses consist of two separate spaces, accessible via three entrance doors. Of the interiors a number of elements are of importance. The small cellar of the former garage contains trough vaults between iron profile beams. In the simple dwelling interiors remain (partly) the carved wooden stair newels and the curved handrails in the stairwell; chimney breasts and chimney beams in the kitchens, remnants of marble fireplaces in the living rooms, some simply stuccoed mouldings on ceilings and doors with slightly moulded moulding and original, oval wooden door handles.

Valuation.

The building block consisting of two former warehouses (number 14), a former garage with shed (number 15) and three dwellings (numbers 12, 13 and 16) is of general importance. The object has cultural-historical values as it represents, as an example of dwellings for the middle class, a special expression of social development at the beginning of the twentieth century. Furthermore, it is of importance as a special expression of the development in the commercial sector. Moreover, the object is important for the typological development of warehouses and dwellings above. The object has architectural-historical values because of the aesthetic qualities of particularly the front facades on the Korte Waterstraat, the carefully executed ornamentation and refined detailing. The object has ensemble values because of the historical functionally-spatial relationship with the surrounding supply and discharge channels by road and water. Furthermore, the object has ensemble values as a characteristic component of the historical buildings on the Korte Waterstraat, particularly located in the originally closed gable end. The object is of importance because of the largely well-preserved main forms and various elements from the interiors and contributes to the visual and structural integrity of the Den Bosch city centre protected as a historic townscape.