De Panne

De Panne — from the tram depot to Sloepenlaan

In De Panne, this short route brings together five buildings from 1928 to 1936. It starts at the tram depot on Loskaai (1935-1936), built after the electrification of the lines to Veurne and Adinkerke, which now houses the museum trams of the TTO-Noordzee association, then reaches Barkenlaan, with a house by Philibert Vanmarke (1934) and Louis Legein’s semi-detached villas Beau Laurier and Akelei (1929), with cubist forms. It then passes Vanmarke’s Villa Mon Refuge (1936), Art Deco with elements of the streamline (paquebot) style, and ends at the “Annexe-Hotel de la Digue” houses, dated 1928.

5 stops · Duration 1h15 · Distance 1,5 km

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1. Dépôt de tram et quai de chargement — De Panne

   Inconnu · 1936

   Tram depot designed by an unknown Brussels architect after the electrification of the lines to Veurne and Adinkerke; the plans, approved on 7 November 1935, were carried out in 1936.

2. Maison Art déco, Barkenlaan 28 — De Panne

   Philibert Vanmarke · 1934

   Semi-detached Art Deco house with a front garden, built in 1934 according to municipal information; a façade stone attributes it to the architect "Ph.

3. Beau Laurier et Akelei — De Panne

   Louis Legein · 1929

   Two paired villas, "Beau Laurier" (no. 32) and "Akelei" (no.

4. Villa Mon Refuge — De Panne

   Philibert Vanmarke · 1936

   Villa Mon Refuge, after the inscription in iron lettering: a detached house in the Art Deco style with elements of the ocean-liner style, built in 1936 according to the building plan to a design by the architect P.

5. Maisons « Annexe-Hotel de la Digue », Sloepenlaan 4-6 — De Panne

   Inconnu · 1928

   Houses known as the "Annexe-Hotel de la Digue", after the inscription in the pediment: an Art Deco terrace of two houses of two bays and four storeys under a flat roof, dated "Anno 1928" on a parapet on the right.

Translated from the French original.