Woonhuis, Steenstraat 6

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

At the beginning of the Steenweg, near the intersection with the road to Sevenum, a largely detached VILLA is situated on an irregular plot. The building presents itself prominently towards the centre of Panningen through a projection at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the street. The front courtyard is separated from the street by means of a brick pillar wall, along the Ninnesweg built high with flattened saddle-back cresting in red facing brick, along the Steenstraat built low with secondary ironwork fencing between the pillars. The villa was built around 1875 on the orders of burgemeister's son Franciscus J.M. Leonardus Engels and displays stylistic influences of Eclecticism. A two-storey office extension on the rear facade (northwest side, arch. J. Bongarts from Panningen) dates from the early twentieth century, as does the renewed stairwell extension. The stylistically designed two- and single-storey extensions on the right facade date from 1947 (arch. F.H. Niessen from Helden), on which occasion the building was divided into two residential units. The barn on the right side courtyard and various other outbuildings on the plot fall outside the national monument protection.

Description.

The partially cellared villa occupies a nearly rectangular floor plan and comprises two storeys and an attic storey under a hipped roof tiled with suppressed, improved Dutch tiles. Two chimneys on the ridge line. In the rear roof slope a modernised roof dormer under an abutting gabled roof. Richness of form and detailing diminish as the facades become less visible. In particular the front and left facades, which are prominent due to the striking location, are richly detailed. The right facade and the rear facade, even more hidden from view, are executed more soberly. The symmetrical front facade is five bays wide. Along the front facade lies a tile floor framed with ashlar lists. The grooved plastered facade is articulated horizontally by an ashlar plinth with an adjacent casement frieze above, a cordon moulding and a complete entablature with a profiled architrave, plain frieze and projecting profiled gutters, supported by two small upper pilasters. Vertical articulation is achieved by means of corner and central pilasters, which in the middle bay pierce the cornice to mark off a top gable with indented and projecting fronton and crowning cyma. Stuccoed, profiled facade openings with rounded corners, in the first storey crowned with cymas and fitted with wooden venetian blinds. Ashlar drip mouldings. In the middle bay the entrance with ashlar surround and steps. Double glazed panel door with ornamental trellis work. All windows secondary. The two- and single-storey extensions on the right facade, situated in the continuation of the front facade, are detailed correspondingly at the front.

The symmetrical left facade is bossed plastered, comprises three bays and is crowned with a flattened, indented and projecting top gable with an overlying profiled gutter which is interrupted again in the middle by a compressed spout gable with blind window between two upper pilasters. Articulation and detailing as mentioned above for the front facade. The originally likewise symmetrical right facade is constructed correspondingly but executed more soberly. The unplastered but white-painted facade is terminated by a simple brick gutter, supported by blocks and two upper pilasters on either side of a six-paned top gable window. Otherwise secondary windows. On the middle bay an original but modernised single-storey back kitchen extension under a flat roof. The approximately one-bay deep extensions from 1947 consist of a two- and a single-storey volume on a nearly square floor plan under gabled roofs tiled with hollow pan tiles, slightly recessed between two top gables corresponding to the main facade, indented and projecting. The rear facade is executed in fair-faced masonry. The early twentieth-century two-storey extensions under flat roofs are both finished with a brick balustrade. The double-hung windows in the former office extension (1922) have fanlights with small glazing bars and wooden roller shutters. Otherwise a wooden panel door with ashlar drip moulding. In the stairwell extension among other things a blind oculus window and a casement window.

The interior layout has been recognisably preserved despite the residential subdivision. The various rooms (bedroom suites, salon, kitchen and various bedrooms) are situated both on the first and on the second storey on either side of a central corridor which leads to the stairwell on the rear side. Cellar situated on the rear side. Of the interior the following are noteworthy: the corridor with grey-black floor tiles, pilasters with volute-shaped corbels and, on the upper floor, polished stucco treated walls; the cellar with slightly vaulted barrel vault; the kitchen with terrazzo floor and wooden linings with white faceted tiles; various rooms containing a black marble fireplace surround, a window with coloured stained glass, sliding doors with small glazing bars and facet-cut glass, ceilings with (partly polychrome) moulded work, medallions and figurative representations in stucco, and panel doors with partly original handles and profiled moulding.

Valuation.

The villa is of general importance. The object possesses cultural-historical values as an example of a residential house for the wealthy upper class at the end of the nineteenth century. The representative status of the object is evident from its high-quality aesthetics and is further closely connected with its situation in an urban planning context. The object possesses architectural-historical values because of the high-quality aesthetic qualities of the architectural design and the very carefully considered, highly varied and refined detailing, particularly of the exterior. The object possesses ensemble values. Remarkable is its situation in an urban planning context, through which the object presents itself very prominently towards the centre of Panningen. Inseparably connected with this situation is the great differentiation in the architectural treatment of the various facades. The object is important because of the well-preserved main form and various elements from the interior, of which the polished stucco work has meanwhile become rare.