Title
House of Veronika and Alois Hamerský
Date
Authors
Dominik Beránek
Code
N016
Type
Address
Nedvědice 163
GPS
49.453584, 16.328566
One of the youngest villas built along the road to Pernštejn is the house of the shoemaker Alois Hamerský and his wife Veronika from 1923. Until the construction of the villa, the well-to-do master lived in Pernštejn, where he shared the house with his wife, parents and apprentice Antonín Humpolík. The land for the intended house was purchased by Alois Hamerský in November 1922. It is likely that the main reason for the construction was the Building Act, passed in 1923, and the administrative and financial benefits associated with it. Although the construction undoubtedly proceeded relatively quickly, the effort to comply with official requirements is best evidenced by the high stone plinth, whose rapid implementation ensured that the construction work was carried out despite the anticipated delays. The two-storey house, built according to a simple design on a regular rectangular plan, is emphasised by a shallow bay on the frontage, which transitions into a trapezoidal gable on the first floor. The street-facing façade is broken by four rectangular windows with clapboards, between which are wide lozenge bands; the two central windows on the ground floor and the window in the gable are framed by narrower lozenge bands. The narrow lozenges are also divided by tall side gables, which contain the entrance to the house on the right-hand side of the view. The ground floor is separated from the first floor by a wide plain cordon cornice. A gable, covered by a tent roof, stands out from the high half-hipped roof. The simple architecture is complemented by a carved wooden balcony with a canopy on the left-hand gable. A few years after the completion of the building, a ground-floor building was added to the rear yard of the villa, probably serving as a workshop and exchange for Alois Hamerský's parents. The architectural type of the villa with a central trapezoidal gable, also appearing at the same time in nearby Doubravník, as well as the construction details, especially the use of lysens, suggest that the author of the building project could have been the Doubravník builder Dominik Beránek, who had already built a similar house in detail in 1912 in Nedvědice for Jan Čermák, house no. 139. The relatively simple, but at the same time generously designed villa, which fits into a group of similar buildings built along the road to Pernštejn, is interesting mainly for its original appearance from the period of its construction, which it has retained in good structural condition until the present day.
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