Woonhuis, Het Voorburg 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

VILLA with GARDEN GATE, built circa 1891. The house is executed in an eclectic style in which influences of the neorenaissancecan be distinguished such as the application of ornamental brickwork in diaper patterns and in the infilling of the arch fields above windows. In the three end gables, render-faced pitched gables refer to the chalet style. The letter panels in the front door are derived from gothic.

The property is situated on the east side of the centre and forms part of the designated protected townscape and is situated in a street facade of predominantly 19th-century buildings. The dwelling is located opposite the former, undeveloped castle grounds and is separated from the street by a deep garden with a cast-iron railed fence.

Description

The VILLA has a composite floor plan with a T-shaped ground plan in principal form and is constructed in brick (English bond). The facades above the rendered continuous lime mortar frame are articulated by yellow brick ornamental bands which are partly infilled with black bricks. The bevelled day edges of the windows are executed in red facing brick. The hardstone window sills all rest on the continuous drip mouldings of ceramic tiles. All, unless otherwise stated, semicircular arch fields above the various types of (sash) windows are infilled with these mentioned materials in rich ornamental brickwork. The right aisle of the house, equipped with a gabled roof, engages with the higher-reaching gabled roof of the left aisle which is positioned with its ridge at right angles to the street. The roof is laid with slate in Dutch bond. The end gables are provided with render-faced, pointed-arch false hammer-beam trusses; only the end gable of the right side aisle is executed as a multi-lobed arch. The false hammer-beam trusses rest on paired corbels and are terminated by a finial. Only in the left roof slope of the left aisle is there a roof dormer. The gutters are carried by heavy blocks.

The FRONT FACADE consists of a projecting left aisle and a right aisle positioned parallel to the street. The left aisle possesses a five-sided bay window of which three sides are glazed (modern). The windows are terminated with a segmental arch field. Two double balcony doors with original paired fanlights with a wooden small column between them adjoin the balcony above the bay window, which is closed off by a decorative balcony railing. Such fanlights also occurred in, among others, the bay window. In the semicircular arch field above both doors identical ornamental brickwork is present which also appears above the sash window in the end gable. The right side aisle contains on the left the entrance in an internal porch which is closed off by a hardstone lintel supported by consoles. On this rests a small half-column which is positioned in the middle of two semicircular arches above which ornamental brickwork appears in the arch field thereby limited. The wing (panel) door is provided with letter panels and is glazed. Above this are situated paired original fanlights as described for this above, under a rectilinear field of ornamental brickwork. The moulded door frame rests on hardstone thresholds and a similar sill; of the same material is the step before the door. The wooden ceiling of the porch is divided into cassettes. To the right of the door is a window of the standard type, with coupled frame with fanlight. On the first floor there are eight segmental spare fields of which two each are provided with sash windows with divided fanlights which are separated by two spare fields. At the corner the last two spare fields of the eight are located.

The LEFT SIDE GABLE possesses in the middle two semicircular spare fields flanked by a rectilinear window under a three-pane fanlight such as occurs in the balcony doors above the bay window. On the first floor a two-pane small window is placed in the midst of two spare fields.

The REAR GABLE was extended in 1936 in particular with a conservatory on the right side, while the conservatory on the left was later enlarged with a lean-to roof. Between these two projecting volumes is situated a small in extent flat-roofed original outbuilding with a two-pane window. To the left of this in the rear gable is the original door with ornamental glazing bars present under a segmental arch field. Above the door is a window with false glazing bar in the fanlight, placed under a slightly arched relieving arch. To the left and right of this are a window divided into four and a small toilet window. The right side of the rear gable projects forward and was presumably identical to the end gable as in the front facade. Two doors adjoin the balcony above the conservatory, of which the left is enlarged. The sash window in the end gable lacks, as do the two fanlights above the balcony doors, the divided glazing bar.

The symmetrically arranged RIGHT SIDE GABLE contains three window axes with T-sash windows with divided fanlights under a semicircular arch field. In the middle axis there is also a similar type of window in the gable apex.

The INTERIOR is divided by a central hallway. The vestibule doors and sidelights are provided with etched glass. The tile floor of the passage is laid in a pattern of black-yellow tiles. In the hall a staircase with newel and wooden turned stair strings adjoins. All panel doors are present and some chimneypieces as well as the internal (hinged) shutters on the ground floor. Particularly notable components in the interior are three painted ceilings (passage, hall and right front room) divided by mouldings into panels wherein in two of the three ceilings flowers are depicted and in the third some carpenter's tools in a bed of flowers. The rear room of the suite (with glazed sliding doors and rich wooden wainscoting) possesses a white painted ceiling with edge mouldings.

The iron GARDEN GATE at the front separates the garden from the street and from the path adjacent to the house. The gate which rests on a plinth which is finished with a half-round moulding, consists of spikes which end in points. The corner posts at the swing gate and the other posts are crowned by a pine cone.

Valuation

VILLA with wrought-iron RAILINGS built circa 1891.

- Of architectural-historical importance as a good and well-preserved example of an evenly designed villa with high-quality aesthetic qualities in the use of materials and ornamentation. The interior is of particular importance due to, among other things, the presence of painted ceilings.

- Of town-planning importance because of its location at the edge of the centre. The street still possesses a stock of historic houses with garden gates preserved in fairly good condition which form an attractive and valuable streetscape.

- Of cultural-historical value as a recognizable element of a societal development. The property was built as housing for the new and wealthy urban elite, who preferred to establish themselves in substantial townhouses in the newly laid out streets around the old town.