Pastorie(F), Nassaulaan 4

English translation

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Description

Description

A RECTORY built on an almost rectangular ground plan of two storeys under a hipped roof with lead covering (Maas roof). The external brickwork is, like the church building, executed in red-yellow machine-made brick in Walloon format in cross-bond with cut joint. The surrounding plinth executed in the same brickwork has a bevelled top edge of red profile stone. At the height of the upper and mid-dormer sills of the sash windows on the ground floor and first floor, the brickwork of the front and side facades is enlivened by two courses of brown-glazed brick (with one course of red-yellow brick between them). All four facades are crowned at the top by a surrounding pointed arch frieze, above which is a band of decorative brickwork (pairs of red-yellow and brown-glazed brick in chequerboard pattern) and a drip moulding. At the corners of the facades, under the pointed arch frieze, a three-quarter column of red profile stone is placed, furnished with a presumed limestone capital and resting on a like corbel stone. The sash windows have fanlights furnished with leaded glass and stone lekdorpel (drip moulding). Above the ground floor windows are segment arches; above the lower first-floor windows are stone lintels (with inset segment arches above). The left half of the front facade (SW) is executed as a three-sided risalit with a two-part sash window in the centre front both below and above, and on the sloping sides a narrower sash window. To the right of the risalit, three sash windows are placed on the first floor. On the ground floor, two sash windows are located to the right. The front door in the middle of the ground floor, reached via a stoop of three steps, is a panel door with six (two rows of three) standing panes above, and has a wooden hood on brackets, above which is a two-part fanlight with a stone divide column and a like lintel. In the centre of the three-sided front gable of the risalit stands a dormer with slate-covered sides and a casement window flanked by narrower side windows, above which a slate-covered saddle roof. To the right above the front facade a second dormer is placed with a single casement window, slate-covered sides and a like saddle roof with bargeboards in three-foil arch form. The left side facade (NW) has in the middle of the first floor a sash window, and above it a brick dormer with a slate-covered saddle roof and a spout gable covered with stone in which a six-pane horizontal window. At the location of the dormer, the gutter and arch frieze are interrupted. To the left of the built-out sacristy, in the right side facade (SE), two coupled sash windows are placed with two-pane fanlights (without leaded glass). Above this sits a first-floor window as in the front facade.

In the front facade (SW) of the sacristy extension are three standing windows furnished with wrought-iron railings and round fanlights. The projecting left half of the back facade (NE) of the rectory has on the right a small outbuilding of one-and-a-half storeys high in which the back door, and to the right of this a ground-floor outbuilding with an altered storefront and a balcony. The latter is accessible via a double balcony door with fanlight. To the right of this door a sash window is placed. The back door, reached via a stone stoop of three steps, is executed as a panel door with glass panes above. To the right of the door sits a small standing window, and higher up two likewise (behind which the toilet at the height of the staircase landing). Above the one-and-a-half storey high centre outbuilding is a horizontal falling sash placed, and to the left of this are two more sash windows. At the height of the partly built-out sacristy bottom-right are two cross windows furnished with leaded glass and wrought-iron railings. The projecting left gable half has a hipped roof adjoining the main roof on which a dormer furnished with slate-covered sides, a tilting window with two-pane fanlight and a flat roof. On the back facade on the right stands a comparable second dormer with a casement window between two narrower side windows.

INTERIOR. The interior is still mostly original and contains among other things stucco ceilings, tile floors in the hall, the cellar and the vestibule, an art nouveau tiled dado in the vestibule and the toilet, a turning staircase with richly carved main baluster, and a black marble fireplace in the room front left on the ground floor and front left on the first floor. The partly integral, partly built-out sacristy back right is furnished with a fixed credenza with panel doors and a washbasin above which a polychrome tile tableau depicting the Sacred Heart.

Assessment

The rectory with its associated interior is of general interest because of its architectural design and as a historically-functional component of the Roman Catholic church complex "St. Joseph".