Prima Villa

English translation

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Description

Introduction

VILLA from 1878 with richly decorated INTERIOR and FENCE. The white rendered cubic building was constructed with stylistic influences from neoclassicism. The architect is unknown. The memorial stone in the street facade bears the inscription: "L.S. / 18 12-7 78". The name of the house "prima villa" refers to the first building outside the former fortification works of Nijmegen in the direction of the village of Hees at the time of the dismantling. The detached building is located in the old-West district and is situated on the south side of the Voorstadslaan. The Voorstadslaan forms the connecting road between the city centre (Hezelpoort) and the former village of Hees, and crosses the working-class district of Biezen.

In the garden stand several old trees, such as a linden, chestnut, acacia and beech. The garden is separated from the public road by a wrought-iron palisade FENCE.

Description

Partially cellaraged VILLA of two storeys and attic on a rectangular ground plan. The white rendered cubic building has two extensions on the rear: a single-storey storage building with hipped roof in line with the kitchen and a renewed wooden conservatory in line with the dining room. The ROOF consists of a continuous roof shield with flat. The roof shield is covered with darkened old Dutch tiles and drains via a gutter. In the middle of the roof shield on the street side is a coved wooden roof dormer with large two-pane window. The white rendered FACADES are articulated by corner pilasters with block division, a black painted plinth and a simplified main moulding. The profiled cornice is corniced at the location of the corner pilasters. The majority of the recessed facade openings are finished with segment arch and are provided with a profiled drip moulding. Only in the front facade do the windows and doors have a profiled stucco surround. The mirror-symmetrically arranged FRONT FACADE (street side) is four window bays wide. The middle two window bays are executed as a risalit: two double garden doors with fanlight on the ground floor and two vertical sash windows with fanlight on the first floor. Originally the windows on the first floor were double doors that gave access to a now-removed balcony. On the frieze the name "PRIMA VILLA" is painted. Between the garden doors is embedded a memorial stone with the inscription: "L.S. / 18 12-7 78". The central risalit is flanked on either side by one window bay: single-pane sash window with fanlight on the ground floor and vertical sash window with fanlight on the first floor. The LEFT SIDE FACADE is three bays wide and arranged nearly symmetrically. Slightly left of centre is an entrance portico in which a panelled door in neo-renaissance style with two grilles. The sash window to the left of the portico has been shortened. The window to the right of the portico is blind and provided with a round arch niche. The first floor has three vertical sash windows with fanlights. The RIGHT SIDE FACADE has only on the ground floor at the location of the dining room a small sash window which is presumably not original.

Between the extended conservatory and storage building is in the REAR FACADE a narrow entrance with tall fanlight. Above this entrance at the location of the staircase are four hexagonal small windows. The renewed wooden conservatory is placed on a stone plinth and provided with a double garden door and profiled cornice. On the first floor is a vertical sash window with fanlight. In the rendered facades of the storage building are a few rectangular window openings. The single-pane sash windows have a modified arrangement. The hipped roof of the storage building is covered with red Dutch tiles and drains via a zinc gutter. The spatially well-preserved SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT consists of rooms en suite at the front of the house, and an L-shaped corridor with staircase, kitchen and dining room adjoining conservatory at the rear of the house. This arrangement repeats itself more or less on the first floor. The building has preserved a large number of original INTERIOR ELEMENTS, such as sliding window shutters; three sets of sliding doors between the rooms en suite, dining room and conservatory; panelled doors with profiled surrounds; black marble fireplace mantels in the rooms en suite; stucco ceilings in the rooms en suite and dining room consisting of mouldings, centre and corner pieces (angels, flower, leaf, fruit and rocaille motifs); white marble floor and plinth in the corridor; a staircase with finely worked claw bracket, profiled handrail with curled end and cast iron balusters; polychromic painted ceilings in the rooms on the first floor consisting of mouldings, centre and corner pieces (leaf garlands and rocaille motifs with bouquets of flowers, fruit and colourful birds).

The front garden is separated from the public road by a wrought-iron palisade FENCE

Valuation

VILLA from 1878 with richly decorated INTERIOR and FENCE.

- Of architectural-historical value as a typologically good example of a white rendered cubic villa with stylistic influences from neoclassicism. The exterior is well preserved in terms of main form and facade arrangement. On some parts modifications have been made, such as the demolition of the balcony at the front and the renewal of the conservatory at the rear. Particularly valuable is the largely intact interior. Rarity value is possessed by the painted ceilings in the rooms on the first floor. - Of urban development value as part of a historically evolved urban area between the centre of Nijmegen and the former village of Hees. Judging by the name "prima villa", the present building formed part of the first construction outside the former fortification works of Nijmegen in the direction of Hees at the time of the dismantling.