Villa Margaretha

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Detached VILLA with front garden and wrought-iron GARDEN GATE built in 1894 in rich Neo-Renaissance architecture.

Description

Completely detached villa composed of various building volumes separated from the street by a decorated wrought-iron gate with the inscription 'Marga-Retha' in the entrance gate.

The cellaraged villa comprises largely one storey and a high roof space and is erected above a natural stone plinth on an irregular plan in red brick with lighter red brick in the courses and the window frames. Furthermore fitted with white rendered corner, arch and keystones, bands and cornice strings. The saddle, hipped and gable roofs are covered in grey slate and fitted with wrought-iron roof cresting. The flat roof sections have around them a higher decorated wrought-iron railing. The moulded wooden frames of (sash) windows and doors are of wood. The villa contains various building volumes set back in relation to one another. The front has a central wing projecting far forward, one window bay wide, with a stepped gable. To the right of it a set-back slightly higher built tower-like building volume with a square plan, two storeys under a pyramidal roof, which carries an eight-sided open, white rendered lantern with an onion-shaped pointed roof crown fitted with a copper weather vane. Both the side facades of the projecting central section and the front facade of the set-back left volume contain between the ground floor and the first storey two cornice strings and a band with decorative brickwork in chevron bond of yellow and red facing brick. The arched entrance is located internally on the western side facade of the middle building volume and is accessible via an open portico, furnished with two round arches resting on the corner on a natural stone column with composite capital. The steps to the portico and the landing are of natural stone. In the centre of the groin vault brickwork ceiling hangs a wrought-iron lantern. On the first storey in the front and side facade a rectangular sash window with arched courses. All around the roof runs a projecting wooden gutter on moulded wooden brackets. The middle building volume has on the front at ground floor a large six-part window with moulded frames and stained-glass windows. Above this, carried by two rendered corbels, is a balcony with an elegant wrought-iron railing curved in baroque manner. Recessed in the facade, on either side of the balcony railing, is a white rendered shell motif. The balcony is accessible via a double wooden door in the centre of the facade under a round arch. In the arch field above the lintel, in a white rendered cartouche, the name MARGARETHA. The western side facade has on the ground floor from left to right respectively, a rectangular window, a small round light and a small rectangular window. At the base of the roof two small slate-covered roof dormers with between them a high built chimney with five decorative stone bands. In the set-back building volume on the left, on the ground floor a loggia with a zinc-covered monopitch roof carried by four slender moulded cast-iron columns. The loggia is internally accessible via glass doors. From the garden it is accessible via a natural stone stair. Just above the gutter eave is a roof dormer with a stepped gable with a round-arched window. The rear facade has on the right a projecting building volume with conservatory. This has in the centre a double glass door with finely painted stained glass flanked by tall windows also with stained glass. Windows and doors have a moulded frame and round arch shaped fanlights. The conservatory has a flat roof with a skylight. To the left of the conservatory is a building volume with in the centre a high rectangular sash window. Above the cornice string a frieze with decorative brickwork in chevron bond. This middle facade section is covered by a high hipped roof with in the roof slope a roof dormer with gable roof. Far left is a narrower set-back building volume with a flat roof and a high kitchen door with rectangular fanlight. On the roof is situated a balcony with elegant wrought-iron railing. The balcony is accessible via French glass doors with on either side of the frames a round light. Over the full width of the rear facade runs a terrace with brick-built steps to the garden.

The richly decorated interior has been largely preserved in its original state. On the ground floor a spacious square vestibule with mosaic marble floor, marble wainscot, finely decorated stucco ceiling with chandelier, moulded wooden doors with pediment-shaped window frame and opposite the entrance in the wall a decorated green ceramic fountain. The vestibule provides access on the left to the former library with marble fireplace, low moulded wooden wainscot, rendered and richly painted ceiling and oak floor. To the right of the cellar door the former 'gentlemen's room' with a view of the garden. In line with the conservatory are adjoining the suite and the salon. In the conservatory the floor is laid with mosaic in accordance with the vestibule. Between the suite and the conservatory two red marble pillars with copper bases and composite capitals manufactured by the firm L. Schütz and Zoon in Zeist. The suite and the salon have a painted stucco ceiling, wooden wainscot and oak floor. The salon still has the original marble fireplace with hearth. From the vestibule a spiral staircase leads to the likewise square landing on the storey. The walls of the vestibule, stairwell and the landing are of white rendered blockwork. The staircase has an oak handrail on the wall side and a stair rail with decorated wrought-iron posts in the landing continuing into a wooden balustrade. The landing is lit above the staircase by a fanlight of multicoloured glass. On the storey are situated the former bedrooms. Here also moulded wooden doors with pediment-shaped rendered frame and preserved stucco ceilings and wainscots.

Valuation

Representative late nineteenth-century villa Margaretha in Neo-Renaissance style with gate and exceptionally well-preserved interior from the building period. Both with regard to the interior and the exterior of general importance from an architectural and cultural-historical perspective, as well as of importance because of ensemble values in the series of image-defining villas on the Straatweg.