Landhuis, Voorstraat 87

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING. A two-storey entirely plastered mansion, constructed from brick and enlivened by (plastered) pilasters and window and cornice mouldings; gently sloping truncated hipped roof with black glazed curved Frisian tile; hard stone plinth, four corner chimneys with board; narrow four-pane roof dormers in the western, northern and eastern roof slope; moulded gutter details on elegant consoles; ornamental wall anchors. The whole comprises a blocky main volume with at the rear two shallow wings beneath a flat roof with cornice on which a substantial raised gutter; on the east side substantial extension beneath a catslide roof, with in the corner against the east facade a porch beneath a flat roof where the (relocated) main entrance. On the west side small extension with practice entrance. All entrances and conservatory with stoep. The front facade symmetrically arranged and set off by a substantial plastered cornice with rosettes; centrally a pediment-like crown with wooden cladding with rosettes. Central section consisting of a wooden three-sided conservatory with French doors, hard stone stoep, three-part fanlight and, on either side, windows with curved three-pane fanlights in restrained Art Nouveau; the whole beneath a truncated copper hipped roof; above it a balcony with wooden balustrade and French doors with top and side lights beneath a horizontal moulding on which rounded arches as a continuation of door and window mullions; on either side two arched multi-pane windows (eight-pane on the ground floor; six-pane on the upper floor) with plastered 'eyebrows'; all originally with wooden Venetian blinds. In the left side facade (west) a tall upper-storey window with Art Nouveau stained glass for lighting of the staircase. There also the former practice entrance in a closed porch beneath a flat roof. Virtually symmetrical rear facade with, centrally, French doors with fanlight on either side of which an eight-pane window with narrow side lights and a similar window with somewhat differing central section. Over the entire central section a shallow balcony on slender cast-iron columns with (restored) wrought and cast-iron balustrade; behind this the large hall (with free outlook onto the landscaped garden) with three sets of French doors (six-pane with semicircular fanlight containing decoration and narrow side lights); above the central set of doors a plastered rounded arch. The mouldings and pilasters likewise plastered. In both shallow wings (garden side) on the upper floor arched six-pane windows; on the ground floor in the east wing a large three-part arched kitchen window. The west wing is blind; there stands the natural stone memorial stone commemorating the laying of the foundation stone in 1847 by A.J. Andreae, son of the patron: On the 24th of June 1847 by Arnoldus Johannes Andreae, aged 2 years and 5 months, the first stone of this building was laid. Before the rear facade a terrace (circa 1970) with steps to the garden and masoned flower boxes. On either side a watchful terracotta lion. (see component 5 of the complex description) The detailing of the side facades is little remarkable; the various window forms point to different building activities. GROUND PLAN. This is, with the exception of the addition of the conservatory and the internal reorganisation this entailed, virtually unchanged. A central corridor across the width of the house forms on the ground floor the separation between the living quarters and notary's office at the front and the service areas at the rear, with kitchen, scullery etc. separated by a transverse corridor from clerk's office, safe etc. On the upper floor likewise a corridor runs across the width; this provides access to the rooms there, including access to the large hall on the garden side. The interior still contains many valuable components from the time of construction. These include some stucco ceilings, marble and wooden chimney mantels, stove recesses, wooden wall panelling, panel doors, internal shutters, rounded arch doorways (corridor), white marble floor tiles (corridor; laid in sand), staircase, tile tableau and safe (in former clerk's office; polychrome, with coat of arms Kollumerland and notarial symbols) and stained glass windows with Art Nouveau motif; in the large hall the original Empire finish (colour scheme: white and gold); the attic with pine wood roof truss on standvinkjes, with wooden holders for drying poles and two wooden, zinc-clad water tanks.

Valuation

Mansion of general importance because of cultural-historical, architectural-historical and urban planning value. The house is of importance:

- because of its age;

- because of its construction and use history;

- because of the reasonable to high degree of integrity of the exterior and interior, in combination with a virtually intact ground plan and valuable interior components with partly still the original finish;

- as a design attributable on the grounds of stylistic characteristics to F. Stoett sr.;

- because of the applied Eclectic building style, to which Art Nouveau motifs have been harmoniously added;

- as a good example of a mansion with a park-like arrangement at the rear and well-maintained front garden;

- as an essential spatial and functional main component of the complex;

- because of the functional/spatial relationship with the other components of the complex;

- as a monumental and extensively set-back building mass within the virtually continuous facade line along the Voorstraat;

- because of its visually determining location on the east-west axis through Kollum;

- as the only surviving example of a country estate along that axis.