Woonhuis, Legedyk 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Characteristic Notable VILLAGE DWELLING, built in 1868 in Eclectic Style with Art Nouveau interior aspects at the junction with bridge of the main road of the village - Greate Buorren/Legedyk - and the Werpstervaart/Tsjaerdervaart. On this exit road more dwellings of this type have been built, mostly constructed for the village elite. Together they form a representative ensemble. It is presumed to be the first dwelling that was realised on the west side of the waterway on the connecting road from village centre to the Bredyk. The dwelling was built in 1868 on the instructions of Dirk and Tryntje Sjoerds van der Hem in a spaciously measured and park-like arranged garden in Eclectic Style. At the beginning of the nineteen-sixties a coach house (and possibly also a cheese store) was demolished on the south-east side to make room for a newly built practice room for the doctor who was then establishing himself in the premises.

Description

EXTERIOR: Broad and deep block-shaped building on an approximately square plan of one high storey on a basement. Five bays wide, of which the central one with entrance section projects considerably and is built out in front of the roof as a storey with an attached, zinc-covered shallow gabled roof. The main volume is covered by a truncated hipped roof covered with blue glazed flat tiles. On the four corners stand chimneys with wooden mouldings and boards. On the western and the rear elevation stand a few, reasonably matching dormers of later date than the building.

The walls are built of brown brick. Between basement with large cast-iron grilles and residential storey a band of sandstone. The front facade is closed at the corners by undecorated brick pilasters and at the top by a heavy profiled cornice and a profiled gutter. Near the north-eastern corner an original decorative cast-iron fixture with gas lamp, now fitted with electric light. The entrance section consists of a flight of four sandstone steps with original iron railings, a double door, of which the lights are provided with ornamental iron grilles with amongst others a male and female head and an undecorated fanlight, all closed with a pressed segmental arch and in wood profiled surround with block-like shapes. The structure in front of the roof has on the front side likewise profiled, opening doors with glass panels behind a French balcony with decorative wrought-iron railing; on the sides small side-lights with sash windows. In the wings simple sash windows with leaded glass fanlights, likewise pressed segmental arch closed and at the top provided with courses of heads in 'eyebrow' shapes. On the south-east side a practice room has been added which falls outside the protection.

INTERIOR: The original structure of central corridor and two rooms on either side is still largely intact, with the exception of the eastern reception rooms which have been partially opened up. On that original structure, around 1900, decorative paintwork in Art Nouveau style was applied in the corridor and western reception room. The front door gives access to a continuous corridor which at the rear end has a door dating from around 1900, provided with a glass panel with a radiating representation of a ditch with setting sun, reeds with cattails and 'pompeblêden' and a fanlight in the same technique with a nest among plants with two birds and a fish. The corridor with wooden floor boards and original, framed panelled doors to the rooms consists of two sections separated by an arched opening. Above the front, broad section lie beams in the longitudinal direction; on beams and in the panels decorative paintwork with amongst others dandelions and ivy in Art Nouveau style. The ceiling in the narrower rear section is divided into two panels, provided with decorative paintwork with representations of amongst others arrowhead, cattails and frogs in Art Nouveau style. The western reception rooms are in the most original state. The front reception room possesses at the framed windows the original window-seats with blinds, decoratively painted in Art Nouveau style, as well as the ceiling panels in the longitudinal direction. In the residential room behind, besides the wardrobes, the most striking element is a narrow and high-placed chimney breast which rests on an arch on acanthus consoles. The eastern reception room likewise still possesses the original window panels with window-seats and interior blinds and a considerable part of the cupboard wall. This room is connected via an open doorway to the completely converted kitchen-room at the rear.

VALUATION

The notable village dwelling Legedyk 1 is of general historical, architectural and urban planning importance

- as a characteristic type of the notable, representative dwelling;

- because of the outwardly sound Eclectic Style, the internally largely original structure and layout and the decorative paintwork in Art Nouveau Style;

- because of the remarkable location with a spacious garden in the semi-open built environment at the junction of road and waterway and the coherence with other examples of this type of dwelling which have created a particularly fine ensemble.