Schoolgebouw, Corantijnstraat 2

English translation

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Description

Introduction

School building erected 1922-1923 originally for two schools for 'General Primary Education' on the corner of the Corantijnstraat and the Hoofdweg, designed by the Public Works Department in the style of the simplified Amsterdam School. The school was called the 'Corantijnschool'; nowadays among others Primary School 'Corantijn'. N.B. The windows have been renewed.

Description

Double school building on rectangular ground plan with three storeys under flat roof. Plastic brick facades in light yellowish-brown brick in Flemish bond on partly higher plinth of dark brick. Accents in dark natural stone at parapet, window corners, gable end and semicircular projections. Cornice line in vertical brickwork. Symmetrical front and side facades. Front facade with broad central bay with semicircularly bricked projections on both sides. Beside the projections the entrance sections with double doors. Centrally on the first floor a large nine-light window with on either side the window openings of the rooms of the respective heads of school. The second floor is recessed and has a large window section with double access door to balcony with brick parapet with slightly concave finish with vertical brickwork and with eight small open holes and flagstaff holder. Both on the right and on the left side a higher constructed and obliquely placed and partly concavely bricked structure forms the transition to the facade walls of the wings. Wings with on each storey two large nine-light windows of the classrooms. Further with cornice line and a finish of the balcony and the gable end with vertical brickwork. The virtually identical side facades have a large glazing bar articulated window with grille work on the ground floor with broad mullions and narrower horizontal glazing bars. Above dark brickwork two round projections bricked in vertical bond. Gently sloping gable sections with decorative brickwork. Dark natural stone cornice line with balcony on the south side at a recessed corner section and with balcony at the central section with concave finish of the parapet. On the first and second storeys at the corner placed windows in various designs. The constructed lower central section has vertical window strips for lighting the stairwell with two coupled broad mullions and narrower horizontal glazing bars. On the first floor within these opening balcony doors. On both sides a high corner structure with obliquely sloping notching in the brickwork at the transition to the side sections of the main facade. Rear facade with symmetrical window distribution and with central section with windows of the staircases and with recessed gable section. The staircase windows formerly had leaded glass window infill. The staircases still retain the original handrails with the ornamental wrought-iron fastenings on natural stone footings on the ground floor.

Valuation

Double school building from 1922-1923 of general importance by reason of its cultural and architectural historical and typological value as a representative example of the plastically detailed school designs in the style of the simplified Amsterdam School by the architects of Public Works.