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312 Hurontario Street Tall, 2½ storey, eclectic, red-brick house with oriel window and gable above (c. 1900). Description House sits on stone foundation, with bevelled brick plinth above. Front stair and porch have inappropriate, replacement newels, balusters and handrails. Four wooden columns are built off half-height red-brick piers with limestone copings. Beams above have lower moulding and upper dentils adjacent aluminum-clad soffits. Door is period, half-glazed and panelled oak (behind gingerbread-type storm door). Round-arched front window has rock-faced, stone sill and five discrete, stone voussoirs within red-brick arch. Fenestration consists of square, lower sash (behind six-pane wooden storm) under dentilled transom, with stained-glass lunette above (behind three-pane wooden storm). At second floor, balcony also has inappropriate, thin, turned balusters and tall, square corner posts capped by ball-type finials. Door to porch is ¾ glazed and panelled (behind glazed metalstorm) within segmental-arch opening. Very wide, oriel window at LH side, with two small brackets below, has three, 1/1 windows, each over paired recesses finished with vertical, v-jointed boards. Continuous wooden fascia at wall-head is adjacent aluminum-clad soffits. Gable above has replacement, metal-framed window within original casings, and with dentilled cornice above. Above asphalt-shingled lower pitch, gable wall has bands of unusual, alternating, concave and convex semi-circular-butt shingles, and pendant finial exists at gable peak. Gable fascia has rectangular panels formed by simple battens, and deep, ogee shingle-moulding above. Gabled, south, brick bay has large, ground-floor, single-pane sashes (with period storms) below stained-glass transom windows. Fenestration above is 1/1 at either side, with wide, half-height, patterned-glass, single-pane sash at central facet. Tall chimney having broader base, corbelled upper band-courses and corbelled cap, rises from projecting chimney-breast at south elevation. Roof is clad in dark-grey, asphalt shingles. |
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