Woonhuis, Van Woustraat 67 H

English translation

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Description

Introduction

In 1885-1888, created on commission of the housing association 'De Vereeniging ten behoeve der Arbeidersklasse' a RESIDENTIAL BLOCK originally containing 144 WORKERS' DWELLINGS and two SHOPS designed in the eclecticism style by architects P.J. and W. Hamer. The block has its long facade on the south side of Tweede Jan van der Heijdenstraat and short side facades on Van Woustraat and Hemonystraat, where it connects to the further facade wall.

Description

On an elongated, virtually rectangular ground plan with short side wings, a symmetrical development with ground floor, three storeys and an attic storey, covered with a complex of hipped roofs with right-laying blue-grey tiles and flat roofs. Rendered rectangular chimneys and lead cladding of roof ridge and attachments with masonry. The facades stand on a narrow natural stone plinth and are built up in brown brick in English bond alternated with rendered spandrel courses, diamond courses, keystones and frames. On Tweede Jan van der Heijdenstraat are two seven-bay-wide segments of the facade built in red brick in English bond. Behind these are four back-to-back dwellings per storey. The three other segments of the long facade are thirteen bays wide. The facades on Hemonystraat and Van Woustraat are each five bays wide. The facades are articulated vertically and horizontally by window series, band courses, pilaster strips and narrow projections in which the entrances to the central staircases are located: fourteen on the long facade and one on the short facades. The broad double panelled doors have above the lower panel a segmental fanlight with glazing bars with oculi. The windows on the three storeys in these projections have a surrounding rendered frame and six-pane sash windows. The remaining windows of the facades are slightly pointed under a rendered decorative brickwork with ornamented keystone. The entrances in the two facade segments in red brick have a richly ornamented rendered frame with flanking pilasters and a high frieze with segmental arch with moulding and lion head and floral decoration on the spandrels and cornice and a fanlight with fretwork and rosette. The windows above of the staircase are narrow under slight pointing and have six-pane sash windows. The rendered facades are further decorated with facade cornices. Further use of facade cornices. The facades have a straight finish with white frieze with richly ornamented corbels and moulded cornice. Above the narrow projections the pilaster strips end in a corniced cornice on corbel. The projections of the staircases break through the cornice and continue as Flemish gables to a straight-finished gable with simple window and hoist beam. The two facade segments in red brick have a finish with a frieze with tile decoration in geometric patterns and at the ends segmental-arch-shaped pediments with shell motif in the tympanum and with decorative curl of scrollwork. The corners of the residential block with Hemonystraat and Van Woustraat are rounded and have on the storeys diagonally placed windows in rendered frame and likewise curved two-pane sash windows with likewise two-pane fanlight. Of the shops on the corners, the one at Hemonystraat still contains the original entrance at the corner, high natural stone plinth with pointed openings to the basement, double fanlight and fluted pilasters with heads and frieze with cornice. On and near the corners are round and rectangular cassettes in the frieze at the cornice. The short facades are distinguished by a paired placement of the corbels. Originally with balustrade above the facade finish. At the rear facade the facade parts of the segments executed in red brick are slightly set back.

Valuation

Residential block with workers' dwellings and two shops from 1885-1888 of general importance for its architectural and cultural-historical value as a representative and largely well-preserved example of philanthropic housing construction in the eclectic-neo-Renaissance manner characteristic of its period of construction. As one of the few association blocks in an environment dominated by revolutionary housing and because of its typological value, also of socio-historical importance.