252 Hurontario Street



Two-storey, hip-roofed, red-brick house with verandah and front gablet (c. 1900).

Ground Floor – Full-width, front verandah has slender wooden columns set on panelled piers, with low railing between having traditional, profiled handrail and unusual, profiled pickets. Small pediment at LH side contains planted, decorative, wooden flourish. Period, half-glazed and panelled front door (behind half-glazed wooden storm), has rectangular transom window in segmental-arch aperture, with projecting voussoirs above dropping to stepped corbelling at upper jambs. Ground-floor fenestration is large, square, lower sash, dentilled transom, and plain-glass, segmental-arched transom window. Masonry treatment is as over door.

Second Floor - Two, 2/2 windows within apertures as described. At LH side, small gable rises above window, having wall surface decorated with profiled wooden discs (like fried- eggs). Narrow fascia has shingle moulding only, above which wooden roofing shingles are faintly visible. At north elevation, a masonry wing projects beyond body of house, with gablet as at front, while to rear at south elevation is small, period, wooden vestibule with half-glazed door. Soffit boards are beaded throughout, and roofs have black, asphalt shingles with metal rolls at hips. A rebuilt, corbelled chimney-head is visible beyond central peak.

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