Woonhuis, Oranjesingel 24

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The MANSION was designed in 1895 by architect P.G. Buskens in eclectic style. The properties Oranjesingel 14-34 were all designed by Rotterdam architect P.G. Buskens and built by his Nijmegen uncle G. Buskens.

These are richly ornamented two or three-storey mansions with great diversity in stepped gables, towers, roof dormers, balconies, conservatories, loggias and sculptural work. Each front facade is differently designed, while the interiors show great similarity in layout and detailing. The rear facades, which are very soberly executed, also resemble each other. A number of houses even have one continuous rear facade. Through the consistent use of red and yellow facing brick and the equal height of the gutter and roof line, the house also forms a pair with the house to its right on the front side. The front garden is paved and there is no fencing.

The mansion forms part of the continuous northern facade wall of the Oranjesingel, one of the main streets of the expansion plan by Bert Brouwer, designed after the demolition of the fortifications, within the protected townscape.

Description

The MANSION has a rectangular ground plan with an extension at the rear. The mansion has a basement, two storeys and an attic storey under a flat roof with bituminous roofing and a roof section with tiles in Dutch bond. The roof section is broken by a broad straight-closed Flemish gable crowned by a hipped roof with two points and covered with tiles in Dutch bond. The Flemish gable is flanked on both sides by square pinnacles with rendered caps and bulbous finials. To the right of the Flemish gable is a richly worked wooden oculus window. The asymmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE is two bays wide and largely built up of red facing brick, laid in Flemish bond. The facade is horizontally articulated by rendered mortar courses and has a hardstone plinth. The Flemish gable in the left bay is finished with a main entablature, consisting of a rendered architrave moulding, a frieze with half-spheres and a profiled cornice on blocks. The narrow right bay is finished with profiled cornice on worked blocks. In the right bay is the entrance arrangement, which consists of a segmental-arch-closed porch with rendered half-columns with Ionic capitals, a hardstone step, a non-original front door in a frame on hardstone newels with carved calf and a fanlight. Above the entrance arrangement in the second storey is a sparing field of yellow facing brick with a profiled drip moulding, which is finished at the top by a semicircular frieze with rendered brackets. In the sparing field is an arched window with sash frame. The porch and window are finished with a semicircular arch of red facing brick with rendered voussoirs with half-spheres.

The broad left bay is entirely occupied on the ground floor by a rectangular conservatory with balcony. The conservatory has wooden posts and beams and a richly worked upper zone of semicircular arch and square glazed panels of top lights, finished with a profiled cornice on richly ornamented consoles. The conservatory has a roof with tiles in Dutch bond and a balcony. The balcony is accessible via a double balcony door with worked calf and semicircular-arch top light with rendered voussoirs with half-spheres and a keystone with small-head pattern. The door is flanked by straight-closed side lights with rendered lintels with half-spheres. At the top of the Flemish gable is a three-light window with a rendered drip moulding, intermediate mullions and three casements.

The asymmetrically arranged REAR FACADE, which is built up of red brick and laid in English bond, has an extension on the left with a modified rear door. In the recessed section on the right is a conservatory with balcony, accessible via an arched double balcony door with fanlight. The rear facade is further provided with arched windows with pivot frames and fanlight and is finished with a wooden moulding.

The INTERIOR is still partially in original condition. The layout has been preserved and a number of original interior elements are still present such as: the vestibule with walls with imitation natural stone blocks in plasterwork, stucco panels and ceiling and the fanlights of the draught door with etched glass with figurative representation; the corridor with a semicircular arch on rendered consoles, ornamented stucco ceilings and the staircase with worked wooden newel and balusters; the rooms en suite with richly ornamented stucco ceilings; the conservatory with coloured glazed panels of top lights; the wooden panelled doors in profiled frames throughout the house and three black marble fireplaces.

Valuation MANSION by P.G. Buskens from 1895.

- Of architectural-historical value as a good and fairly intact example of a mansion in eclectic style with aesthetic qualities in the front facade and interior such as distinctive use of materials and rich ornamentation.

- Of urban planning value as part of the continuous northern facade wall of the Oranjesingel, one of the main streets of the protected townscape, the late nineteenth-century expansion plan by Bert Brouwer.