Woonhuis, Weesperzijde 29 4

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Ensemble of three TOWNHOUSES, built in 1884 in the Neo-Renaissance style - principally Neo-Dutch Renaissance - as part of the nineteenth-century street frontage on the Weesperzijde.

Description

Ensemble of three residences constructed in red brick in English bond, with cellars, spanning four storeys, each three window bays wide, beneath a composite roof structure, the outer roofs (numbers 29 and 31) raised higher. Number 29 has a covering of pantiles. The floor plan is an angled rectangle with outbuildings. The two outer houses have oriels on the third storey and more richly executed roof dormers. The houses have round-arched windows and porches on the first and fourth residential storeys, and squared windows on the second and third storeys. The windows have cross windows except on the second residential storey, the mezzanine. All windows are outlined and have keystones. The brickwork is enlivened on all floors by decorative bands (speklagen), on the first residential storey with diamond-headed bosses. The decorative bands continue through to the blocks in the window mullions. Each residential storey is terminated by a (rudimentary) dentilled course with triglyphs and above it a moulded drip moulding. In the low rusticated basement are cellar windows. The round-arched windows on the first residential storey have diamond-headed bosses in the balustrade with a small round ornament.

The panelled doors (numbers 30-31) with diamond-headed bosses and ornamental grilles are set within a cross window with a half-column in the middle mullion and a scaled pilaster. The windows on the mezzanine have simple framing. The panels in the frieze have metopes as closure and set-back stones.

The piano nobile has a balcony in the middle house and an oriels on the two outer houses on a plate supported by richly worked consoles (with cartwheel). The mullions of the oriel windows, four at the corners and two between at the front, continue over the balustrade. The construction year 1884 is recorded in the balustrade. The fluted corner mullions have a fantasy capital. Richly executed consoles are located above all six mullions beneath the cornice. The other framed windows on this floor have triangular pediments with guttae, which rest on the keystone and corner blocks. The pediments project through the frieze which is plastered in line with the pilasters. The window mullions break through the cordon moulding and have ornamental work between.

Above the round-arched windows on the top storey are plastered surfaces above a moulded drip moulding. The outer pilasters of the individual buildings have Doric capitals, the inner ones Ionic. In the frieze above the pilasters are coupled volute-shaped consoles and triglyphs in line with the keystones. The consoles support a heavy cornice.

The roof dormers have scrollwork in the manner of Vredeman de Vries in their claw pieces. The middle roof dormer has a pediment, the two outer ones have heavy cornices and zinc-covered recessed domes with copper weathervanes.

The original interior layout is largely intact, as are certain interior components such as stuccowork and panelled doors from the construction period.

Valuation

Ensemble of three townhouses on the Weesperzijde from 1884 of general importance due to cultural and architectural-historical value as an intact example of richly detailed neo-renaissance residences developed by private patrons for the upper classes. The residences are of general urban planning importance due to their ensemble value as a defining component of the late nineteenth-century riverfront on the east side of the Amstel.