Hardenberg

English translation

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Description

Introduction

VILLA farmhouse Hardenberg, built in 1912 commissioned by J.R. Evers in a Transitional style. Hardenberg is strikingly situated at the corner of the Verlengde Hoofdweg and the Lange Weg towards Nieuweschans, amidst a number of monumental villas for the independently wealthy and within the ribbon Beerta-Drieborg, which is in the process of being designated as a protected townscape. Associated with the villa are a barn and a connecting structure which are not protected due to insufficient heritage value.

Description

Two-storey villa, built in plastered brick on a substructure of decoratively plastered sintered clinkers. The complex roof with half-hipped ends, covered with non-original shingles, has two ceramic ridge ornaments and a gutter on wooden corbels. The facades have decoratively plastered corner pilasters and are articulated by H-windows with plastered moulding and arch soffit.

The front facade (west) has a side projection beneath a sloped roof with half-hipped end. In the projection a curved bay containing three connected H-windows within a plastered moulding with arch soffit; above the bay a balcony with plastered balustrade, where French doors with arched upper and side lights within a plastered moulding open out. Above this the name of the farmhouse: 'Hardenberg' and a semi-circular three-pane window with plastered moulding. On the south side of the projection both on the ground floor and on the upper floor a narrow H-window. To the right of the projection on the ground floor and on the upper floor two H-windows, all with plastered moulding and arch soffit; two two-pane cellar windows. In the south facade a projecting section beneath a sloped roof with half-hipped end, containing two two-pane cellar windows, four H-windows with plastered moulding and arch soffit and at the top a three-light window under a plastered moulding. To the right of the projection a three-sided wooden conservatory on plastered sintered clinker substructure, beneath a lean-to roof with balcony. The conservatory has six connected H-frames with a glass door and fanlight and steps in the middle. The balcony has a decoratively open-work iron railing and is accessible via French doors with fanlight beneath a canopy with decorative gutter line. Further in the south facade two two-pane cellar windows and four H-windows with plastered moulding and arch soffit.

In the north facade on the ground floor and on the upper floor an H-window and two sets of French glass doors with fanlight, all with plastered moulding and arch soffit. On the north facade a flat extension with the main entrance on the west side. The entrance consists of a panelled door with door light with wrought iron and a fanlight, in a porch with fanlight and natural stone step (three treads). On the north side of the extension two tall windows and a w.c. window. Adjacent to the extension a bay with two H-windows.

Valuation

Villa farmhouse of which only the villa from 1921 is of general importance for reasons of cultural, architectural and urban planning value

- as an example of a villa forming part of a farmhouse complex

- for its striking design in a Transitional style

- as a reminder of the great flourishing period of agriculture in the Oldambt

- for its distinctive and prominent location on a corner amidst other monumental villas and within the ribbon Beerta-Drieborg, which is in the process of being designated as a protected townscape.