227 & 231 Hurontario Street



Two-storey, semi-detached, red-brick house with polychrome band-course and window trim at upper level (c. 1880), and with ground floor obscured/replaced by projecting shop-fronts.

Description – Original building, set back from Main Street, is effectively hidden by one-storey shop, flat-roofed additions. Entry doors (two to shops, one to upper storey) are mis-matched, whereas shop-front windows are modern but balanced. Shop-fronts, with recent, aluminum-framed shop-fronts, are clad in vertical boards, with north and south walls projecting wall built partially of brick. Period dentilled cornice and beaded-soffits boards remain at recessed central entry. Signage is acceptable, though set on exceedingly large fascia. At second floor, four, formerly segmental-arch apertures, with buff brick upper jambs and voussoirs, contain replacement, bottom-slider windows, with modern door (in enlarged aperture towards LH side). Beaded soffit-boards are supported by small wooden brackets, set above deep band-course of buff and red brick within upper and lower buff-brick courses. Roof has grey asphalt shingles, with aluminum gutters on plain fascia, and with no chimneys.

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