173 Ste. Marie Street



2½ storey, red-brick house with columned, pedimented porch, and front gable with spindles and bargeboard, and with modern entry in former, ground-floor window aperture (c. 1890).

Description – Much-altered (with replacement front columns, rebuilt piers, and missing spindles and brackets at high-level) and collapsing porch at LH side has turned wooden columns built off rock-faced concrete block piers with concrete copings. Entry has original, half-glazed and panelled door with transom window above. Recessed pediment above replacement steps is framed with moulded fascias and has typical ornament of moulded disks within square grid of planted battens. Small pitched roof extends beyond pediment apex, clad in fine, saw-toothed shingles. Red-brick masonry is built off fieldstone foundation. At projecting, RH bay, ground-floor window is reworked to house modern, fully-glazed, metal-framed doors reached by suburban-deck-type stair and landing. Metal spandrel panel fills space between top of doors and wide, segmental arch with hood moulding above and at upper jambs. Second floor has similar, segmental-arch with thick, wooden sill and two, 1/1 windows either side of central wooden mullion (and with metal storms). Upper gable has band of small spindles with wooden frills below, while at peak, horizontal boards span from soffits to king-post, with elegant (but failing) filigree-type cut-outs. Additional punctured, semi-circular bargeboard exists at lower gable eaves. Large shingle-mould crowns fascias, above which roofs are clad in failing, black asphalt shingles. There are no chimneys.



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