62-68 St. Paul Street



Terrace three-storey, hand-made, (sandblasted) pink-brick houses with buff-brick trim, ground-floor bay windows, bracketed soffits and slated mansard roof (c. 1870).

Description – Full-height, returned, buff-brick quoins at either side indicate this was original extent of structure. Ground floors have large, one-storey, brick, bay windows with 4/4 windows with stone sills and transom windows. (All windows are 4/4 replacements, set into original frames, and probably not reflecting original types.) Masonry at bays comprises stone foundation, buff-brick plinth, red-brick piers, buff-brick, segmental-arch voussoirs dropping at upper jambs to brick imposts, and buff-brick cornice above. Roofing is zinc. Front doors are (no. 62) half-glazed, period, panelled door with transom window (both behind metal storms) and ¾ glazed, slab door, also with original transom window, at no. 68. Window-heads detailed as at bay windows. At no. 68, lean-to porch has tapering, square-section posts over rendered piers and concrete landing, with wooden elements probably from c. 1920.

Second Floor – Fenestration is again replacement 4/4 windows, with thick stone sills and buff-brick heads as at ground floor. Massive, stone, acanthus leaf brackets frame soffit of plain boards supported by typical, wooden brackets placed outside window voussoirs.

Third Floor and Roof – Slated, mansard roof contains pair of tall, gabled dormers at each house. Dormers, now encased in aluminum, are surprisingly unornamented, aside from small cornices at eaves. Windows are 1/1 aluminum. Deep wooden cornice exists at junction of mansard roof and flat roof behind. Sloped brick parapet walls at north and south elevations are built off stone brackets, rising from small pier to flashed coping capping outer walls.


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