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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