Woonhuis, Eversweg 2

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The detached VILLA was built in 1920 by Marinus Jan Granpré Molière (1883-1972) on behalf of R. VerLoren van Themaat, civil engineer and management member of engineering firm Van Hasselt en De Koning with whom he would later build the Hollandsch-Duitsch Gemaal in Nijmegen. Granpré Molière at this time had an architectural practice together with Verhagen and Kok.

As professor at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft (1924-1953), Granpré Molière disseminated his traditionalist aesthetic doctrine, which influenced many architects and under the name Delft School partly determined the appearance of Dutch architecture for several decades. Although Granpré Molière would only later theoretically substantiate his doctrine following his appointment as professor in Delft and his conversion to Catholicism in 1927, the villa nevertheless already shows characteristics of the style that would later be called the Delft School. The soberly designed villa has a free floor plan and functional façade layout and is thereby extremely modern for its construction period.

In 1933 a GARAGE was built beside the villa, which in 1938 was connected to the residence by a newly built room serving as a scullery. Both alterations were carried out by engineering firm Van Hasselt en De Koning. In the garden lie several simple wooden outbuildings such as a rotating TEA PAVILION, a PERGOLA (1925) and a SHED with wood storage.

The villa is located on the Eversweg in the wooded hills east of Nijmegen.

Description

The VILLA is constructed from two rectangular building volumes of different heights, namely two and three storeys respectively, which are placed lengthwise against each other and offset slightly in relation to one another. The villa is partially cellared. Both building volumes have an attic under a gabled roof with suppressed Dutch tiles and gutter moldings and each two chimneys. The roof of the higher, right building volume has a rear slope that continues further, one chimney with an ornamented wrought-iron crown in the front slope and wooden weather vanes. Against the right side façade of the building volume a single-storey building mass was built in 1938 under a lean-to roof with suppressed Dutch tiles. This is connected by means of a wooden pergola to the garage built in 1933, which is provided with a gabled roof with suppressed Dutch tiles and the ridge direction parallel to the garage door.

The asymmetrically arranged façades are constructed from yellow brickwork laid in Flemish bond, which was later whitewashed. The trash-frame is painted black. The façades have rectangular windows of various sizes with narrow lower and upper sills of concrete, wooden frames, some of which are three-part, and wooden casement or pivot windows.

The FRONT FAÇADE has in the high building volume the front door, a wooden door with two narrow panes in a frame on limestone sills, closed by a concrete lintel, above which there is an arched 3-pane fanlight. In the first, second and third storey there are further two, two and one window respectively. In the right upper corner of this façade plane, several years after the villa's construction, a mural painting in yellow and blue was applied, against which a sundial is fixed. In the left building volume there is a double garden door with sidelights and on the second storey two casement windows. The adjoining building mass has one window with three-part frame in the front façade.

The LEFT SIDE FAÇADE is bordered by two projecting wall piers and has between them on the ground floor two casement windows and a 4-pane glass door and on the first floor a wooden balcony across the full width of the façade with a wooden balustrade and a double and a single balcony door. In the gable top there is a three-sided bay window with three 2-pane windows. The left side façade of the high building volume has in the gable top an oval 6-pane attic window. The RIGHT SIDE FAÇADE has a small window, two windows with casement windows and a three-part window with pivot windows. In the gable top there is an oval 6-pane attic window. In the right side façade of the later adjoining scullery there is a three-part window.

The REAR FAÇADE has in the high building volume the rear door, to the right above it two stairwell windows with casement windows, in the first and second storey a three-part window and another small window under the roof edge. In the lower building volume to the right there are in the first and second storey one and two windows respectively. In the later adjoining scullery, whose rear roof slope runs down to approximately 50cm above ground level, there is a sort of roof dormer with flat roof, a door and windows.

The GARAGE has a double garage door on the front and two windows in the rear façade.

Scattered over the wooded garden lie three simple wooden buildings: a rotating octagonal TEA PAVILION, an octagonal PERGOLA with an octagonal tent roof and a hipped roof respectively, both with bituminous roofing, and finally a rectangular SHED with adjoining covered wood storage under a gabled roof with red improved Dutch tiles. The INTERIOR has retained its original layout. On the south and west sides lie the living rooms, on the north side the kitchen and stairwell. Many original interior elements have also been preserved such as: The hall with a black tile floor and a skirting of reused manganese-coloured floral tiles. Here there is also a tile panel in white, black and yellow with the inscription: "DE . EERSTE . STEENEN . GELEGD . DOOR/ REEP . EN . PIETER . VERLOREN . / . OUD . 5 . EN . 4 . JAAR ./ . 25 . MEI . 1920 . "; The kitchen with tiled hearth and kitchen cabinets; The dining room with a buffet cabinet, a corner cabinet, wainscoting of horizontally placed boards and a hearth of fair-faced brickwork with blue-white tiles and black marble mantelpiece; The sitting room with hearth of yellow marble; The study with a hearth of red marble and wooden bookshelves; The stairwell with the two-armed return stair with wooden panel wainscoting and a wooden handrail of spindles and boards; The linen cupboard on the landing; The upstairs toilet with various reused tiles; Panelled doors in a moulded frame throughout the house. Notable are the fitted cupboards, which have been ingeniously designed and fitted to their specific function, and the concealed sinks for example under the stairs and in a cupboard in the servants' room.

Valuation

Detached VILLA from 1920 with GARAGE and EXTENSION from 1933 and 1938 respectively and wooden TEA PAVILION, PERGOLA and SHED by M.J. Granpré Molière.

- Of architectural historical importance as a fine and intact example in exterior and interior of a villa in a traditionalist building style that anticipates the Delft School style. The villa is of architectural historical importance because of the high-quality aesthetic qualities of the design such as the distinctive main form and detailing and the remarkably modern layout and finishing of the interior for its construction period. The villa is of architectural historical importance as one of the early and rare examples of a residential house from the pre-Delft School period of Granpré Molière.