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43 Elgin Street Rambling, 2½ storey, hip-roofed, red-brick, Queen Anne Revival house with exotic corner verandah and full-height, gabled, brick bay window (c. 1910). Ground Floor Brick vestibule at north wall is main entry, with wooden porch in front having turned columns Entry at north Large corner verandah is most remarkable feature of house. Triple, turned, wooden columns mark wide, projecting and pedimented central bay. Columns are built off panelled wooden piers, with curved, profiled handrails and square-section pickets spanning between. Deep beams above have large dentils at cornice, while pediment has smaller dentils at pitched soffits. Front windows within verandah are set in broad, brick, segmental arch. Lower fenestration is wider, central, single-pane sash, with 1/1 side-lights beyond wide, fluted mullions. Above dentilled transom, all windows have stained-glass. To left of verandah, brick bay is built off bevelled, brick plinth on rubble foundation, housing (altered) arched aperture. Square, single-sash front window has cast-stone transom and elliptical-headed, stained glass window above. Side windows are 1/1 (one with metal storms), also with cast-stone transoms, and stained glass transom windows within segmental-arches. Second Floor At LH masonry bay, each face has 1/1 window within segmental arch, while RH side has wide, slightly projecting, wooden bay window with 1/1 window in each face. Projecting, peripheral, aluminum fascia above is assumed to hide dentilled wooden frieze. Carved wooden consoles are visible at eaves below gable, but all soffits are aluminum-clad. Gable and Roof Gable has aluminum cladding at lower pitch, at vertical surfaces above and at fascias, behind which painted shingles, cornice, fascia panels and shingle-moulding may exist. Pair of original windows remains, with lozenge-shaped central panes at upper sashes and single panes below (behind metal storms). Roof is clad in new, mottled grey shingles rising to prominent flashing at central flat roof, which may once have had iron cresting. One chimney, with rebuilt upper courses, exists at south wall. |
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