311 Hurontario Street



Two-storey, red-brick, commercial building with original shop-front, and upper-floor brick pseudo-quoins, stone trim, pargetted frieze and sheet-metal cornice (c. 1900).

Ground Floor – Red-brick piers at either side frame symmetrical shop-fronts and central, recessed entry. Shop-fronts comprise large, plate-glass windows over bevelled-board stall-risers, with continuous, fine, dentilled transom above. Upper shop-front glazing consists of large, vertical panes with round muntins, including over entry. Pair of tall, narrow, ¾ glazed and panelled, pine doors lead to shop within. Wooden fascia (clad in plywood) has attached, bold letters advertising business, with fine, dentilled, wooden, shop-front cornice above.

Second Floor – Upper level contains two pairs of 1/1 windows having taller lower sashes (behind metal storms). Sills are rock-faced stone and flat-arches have elongated, stone springers and keystones, with rubbed, red-brick voussoirs between. Corners of building are decorated with abstractions of brick quoins, which rise to cast-stone cavetto and pargetted frieze below simple metal cornice, which returns at both north elevation and south corners, wrapping around brick pier at the latter. Red-brick parapet has galvanized-metal cap-flashing.

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