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240 - 242 Ste. Marie Street Two-storey, hip-roofed, symmetrical, Italianate, red-brick house with buff-brick trim, ornate front porch and attic gable with oculus set into unusual wooden pedestal (c. 1880, and 1910). Description House has central projecting bay rising full to raised brick gable at attic. Ground floor, central bay has elegant, two-bay wooden porch, missing original balustrade but with later, period handrail, bottom-rail and small, square-section pickets remaining at no. 240. Access is via cast-in-situ, concrete steps, leading to tongue-and-groove deck. (Replacement) corner posts are square, rising to small, capital mouldings under elongated, punctured brackets at soffits. Cornice has horizontal moulding between brackets, with ogee-type modillions above and segmental-arch panels below. Galvanized ogee gutter at fascia is below (rusting) canted, metal-clad periphery of flat roof. At no. 242, simple lean-to verandah with solid railing is old, but unsuitable, alteration. Slab-type front doors have varied, upper windows (behind metal storms). Transom window remains at no. 242, and is possibly hidden at no. 240. At no. 240, one-storey, bay window has stone foundation with bevelled brick plinth above. Narrow 1/1 windows (behind metal storms) have (painted) ashlar sills and buff-brick flat-arches. Hood-mouldings drop at jambs to double, buff-brick stringcourse. At no. 242, bay window is long gone (c. 1910), replaced by square lower sash, dentilled transom and elliptical, bevelled-glass, transom window with buff-brick voussoirs and hood-moulding. Metal-clad roof is as at porch, but with moulding at upper fascia. Second floor Upper level has paired, 1/1 windows at either side and two wider, 1/1 windows in central block, all with ashlar sills, flat arches, hood-mouldings and double string-course as at ground floor. Beaded-board soffits have punctured, incised brackets adjacent central bay, at outer corners and at sides. Gable Brick gable contains large oculus set in mantle-clock-type wooden pedestal with concave inner and outer sides. Round-headed arch and hood moulding are buff-brick, with eared extensions at sides. Gable eaves have brackets as described and fascias are plain. Roof has dark-grey asphalt shingles , chimneys are missing at north and south sides. |
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