Woonhuis

English translation

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Description

Introduction

DWELLING HOUSE built circa 1870 in Eclectic style. The building was constructed on the instructions of cheese merchant Willemswaard for his son, he himself lived in the adjoining house. The monumental building forms part of the closed facade wall on the Oude Haven in the historic centre of Schoonhoven which is registered as a protected townscape.

Description

Two-storey building raised from a sandstone plinth in red brick beneath a bent hipped roof covered with Tuile-du-Nord. The symmetrical front facade (west) has stuccoed pilasters on the corners with false joints and is crowned with a wooden cornice on brackets. In the roof a roof dormer with two-light window placed beneath a round-arched element with wooden carved struts. In the facade on the ground floor are square-headed multi-light windows and on the first floor arched window openings. All facade openings have stuccoed surrounds. At the level of the sills and at the level of the first floor slab are sandstone cordon cornices. Sandstone thresholds at front and rear doors. The central front door has two narrow lights with wrought-iron decoration and a round-arched fanlight with Jugendstil leaded glass. In the stuccoed door surround false joints are applied and the round-arched form is specially accentuated with keystones. Above the front door is an iron balcony which rests on sandstone consoles. The stuccoed surround of the balcony doors has a moulded cornice above the arched fanlight. On either side of the entrance a multi-light window with side lights and fanlights with six-light and twelve-light glazing bars. On the first floor on either side of the balcony T-windows. The rear facade is stuccoed on the ground floor with false joints. In the centre the passage door with leaded glass fanlight and to the right a six-light sash window at the level of the kitchen. On the left a wooden conservatory with simple wood carving. Leaded glass fanlights and moulded frames. On the first floor two six-light sash windows with wooden window sills beneath stretches.

INTERIOR. The interior is largely intact. Of particular importance are the leaded glass windows in the stairwell and the use of marble in the hallway. The thresholds, skirting boards, panelling and floors of the entrance vestibule and hallway are of white marble. In the kitchen hardstone floor tiles and a granite sink and worktop. The ceiling of the conservatory is finished with bead-moulding.

Valuation

The dwelling house is of general importance due to cultural and architectural historical value

- as a representative example of a 19th-century dwelling house in Eclectic style. The building is intact in its principal form, material use and detailing.

- due to its urban planning value as part of the monumental facade wall on the Oude Haven and due to its distinctive position in the historic centre of Schoonhoven.