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263 Hurontario Street Very elegant, two-storey, three-bay, dichromatic-brick house having elegant, projecting, brick vestibule with fine, carved step and keystone, and similar keystones at upper floor (c. 1870). Description Formal, (cleaned) red-brick house has buff-brick plinth over stone foundation, and buff-brick pilasters, with projecting bases, at corners. Vestibule has smaller buff-brick pilasters at either side, having projecting bases, corbelled central ‘capitals’, and additional corbelling at heads. Imposing front doorway is framed in buff-brick, with tall voussoirs at segmental arch, hood-mouldings and flared bases, and has carved keystone; and front stone doorstep is most elegant. Door recess is wood-panelled, including curved panel at soffit, and has plain, slab-door under original, clear-glass transom. At sides of vestibule, half-height windows in bricked-up, segmental-arch apertures indicate former presence of front verandahs at either side. Fenestration is 2/2, segmental-headed windows at ground floor (with traditional 4-pane storms) and at upper, central aperture, while upper windows at either side are square-headed, 1/1 wood replacements. Ashlar window-sills have fine, vertical tooling and window-heads are built as at front door, all with ornate keystones (in brick at ground floor). At second-floor, balcony has replacement balustrade, which replaces older, shorter version (see witnesses) or perhaps an ornate wooden roof, with posts over pilasters below. Brick bay window at south elevations has window head and sill, and 1/1 segmental-headed windows (with period storms). Wall-head has band-course of buff-brick against aluminum-clad soffits. Hipped roof has asphalt shingles, and chimney-breast at north side is without a stack.
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