70 Ontario Street



2½ storey, red-brick house with projecting, gabled, masonry bay, original fenestration (retaining its shimmering cylinder glass), and with deep porch at entry to LH side (c. 1890).

Description – Tall house is built off rubble, local-stone foundation and is entered via deep, raised porch at east side. Porch comprises half-height brick piers with painted stone copings, supporting turned wooden columns under typical beams and mouldings. Low-pitch pediment above has dentils at eaves and typical shingle-moulding at fascia edge. Entrance door is half-glazed, with minor cornice and two lower, horizontal panels. Stained-glass transom window remains. At ground floor, bay window houses lateral 1/1 windows (behind four-pane wooden storms) and central square sash under leaded-light transom. At second floor, fenestration is 1/1 windows behind (four-pane wooden storms) at all three apertures. Segmental arches are built of soldier-course voussoirs, with no hood mouldings. Top-floor gable is supported at sides by projecting beams with ogee-shaped ends, resting on masonry of brick bay at centre. Peripheral frieze board has dentils throughout, including around gable brackets, and soffits are clad in beaded boards. Recessed gable wall is clad in bands of painted shingles having square or scalopped butts. Central, 1/1 replacement window has stocky, fluted piers built off thick wooden sill below and supporting projecting, dentilled fascia above. Shingles at apex of gables are as below, and gable fascia is finished with alternating square and elongated wooden panels, below shingle moulding. Roof is of black asphalt shingles, and at west pitch is a tall, two-vent chimney with intact corbelling and unusual, tapered, clay chimney-pots.


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