219 & 221 Hurontario Street



1½ storey, (painted), dichromatic-brick terrace built in two stages with low stone wall, (recent) full-width verandah between projecting, gabled wings with ground-floor bay windows, and with small, central gable (c. 1870/1910).

Stone Wall – Front garden wall, built of local rubble stone with broad, ashlar coping stones, is rare piece of traditional, stone masonry in a brick town. Remnants of base of former, cast-iron railings remain behind simple, metal picket railing. Wall almost certainly predates present building and may even predate great Collingwood fire, which makes this important.

Description - Residential building, set well back from and above street level, is unique in Main Street. Stokes mentions lost bargeboard and front verandah (citing p. 14 of A Pictorial History of Hurontario Street). Brick masonry is painted throughout, but vertical joint to right of central gable indicates two dates of construction. Lines of adjacent mortar joints, and joints at LH wing, indicate quoins, and so suggest typical buff-brick trim on red-brick walls. Lintels are flat-arched, windows are varying types of old sash-and-case - 2/2 at end gables, 6/6 and 2/2 at LH and RH bay windows respectively, 6/6/ at central gable and smaller, 2/2 tucked below eaves. LH bay window has noticeably heavy wooden sill. Earlier part of building (to north) has plain soffits with simple bevelled moulding at wall-head, while newer part to south has typical beaded boards and robust profile at wall-head. Fascias are (now) plain, chimneys non-existent, and roof is of grey asphalt shingles.

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