Praktijkwoning, Voorstraat 75

English translation

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Description

Description

PRACTICE DWELLING of a physician with pharmacy, from 1905, set back from the Voorstraat in the village of Beesd, in a style influenced by Jugendstil and Chalet style. The facades of the property, built on a complex plan, are laid in cross-bond. The right section contains two storeys under a gabled roof, the left section one storey under a composite (hipped) roof. All roof structures are covered with red pantiles, have overhangs supported by carved brackets and piróns are placed on the roof ridges. The left building section has on its front side a large wooden conservatory.

The front facade has an asymmetrical arrangement and is executed in red facing brick and is horizontally articulated by a rendered plinth and decorative bands of white facing brick. The right section has on the ground floor and upper storey pairs of windows with six-pane fanlights containing yellow cathedral glass, relieved by ashlar lintels and intermediate lintels with ears and likewise ashlar sills. In the gable top a three-light window with the same features. Above it decorative brickwork in white facing brick. Between the building sections the entrance above an ashlar step of two treads, in a recessed intermediate section, with heavy double wooden door with glass panes, in front of which iron grilles, arched ten-pane fanlight, ashlar intermediate lintel, cockscomb of red and white facing brick and ashlar birth and closing stones. Above this in the roof plane a roof dormer. In front of the left building section a far projecting flat-topped conservatory in wood and glass, with 12-pane fanlights. Above this an extension with windows with glazing bars under a continuous roof shield. In the roof shield above this a roof dormer under a gabled roof with piróns, shutters and semicircular four-pane fanlight. The left side elevation is blind, rendered. In the roof plane a roof dormer with double casement window under a flat roof and steeply rising flue. The rear elevation is irregularly arranged, executed in reddish-brown brick. Predominantly windows with three-pane fanlights, relieved by stretchers and ashlar sills. The right side elevation is irregularly arranged, executed in reddish-brown brick and has centrally an extension with on the left side the practice entrance with heavy wooden door with glass and glazing bars under ashlar lintel and on the right side a cellar entrance. Above the extension a wooden balcony under a canopy. Double balcony doors with three-pane fanlight. To the left of this in both storeys windows of which the fanlights have glazing bars.

In the interior the original layout is still largely present. This includes the original pharmacy with dispensing counter, of which only the dispensing hatch has been altered, and the waiting room. Many original interior elements are still present, including a fireplace with ornamental tiles in the kitchen, panelled doors with decoratively executed frames, decorative tiled floors (in some cases beneath the current floor).

Valuation

Practice dwelling of a physician with pharmacy, of general cultural-historical, architectural-historical and urban design importance - as a good example of a villa in a style influenced by Jugendstil and Chalet style in the province;

- due to the fine proportions and detailing of exterior and interior;

- due to the intactness of the exterior and layout in particular and many elements in the interior;

- due to the recognizability of the original function, in particular waiting room and pharmacy;

- as a likewise image-determining component of the historically developed townscape in the protected village view.