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74 & 76 Ontario Street Pair of two-storey, semi-detached, red-brick houses on buff-brick plinth, with three gabled bays, and having Edwardian-type, sash-and-case windows, and projecting quoins (c. 1900). Description Pair of tall brick dwellings has full-height, central bay with chamfered corners, housing ground-floor entrances, second-floor, period windows, projecting gable on brackets, and high-level cantilevered peak, with accompanying stepping forward of fascia. Thresholds have broad stone sills, while window sills are (painted) cast stone throughout. Front doors, set in panelled recesses, are Arts and Crafts type, with eight small, bevelled-edge panes over large wooden panel. Transoms are deeply profiled, below patterned-glass transom windows in segmental arches, with deep, soldier-and-header voussoirs. Second floor windows are Edwardian type, with small peripheral panes of coloured glass at upper sash framing large clear central pane, and with typical, single-pane sash below. Window heads are of flat-arched brick, with tall voussoirs framed entirely by hood mouldings which drop at, and return into, upper jambs. Wooden gable above has paired brackets supporting lower soffit, then horizontal boards, band of scalloped-butt shingles, and further soffit as fascia breaks forward. Peak of gable has rock-faced render between three concentric, wooden bands. Fascia has ogee shingle moulding throughout. To either side of main bay are smaller, square bays with ground-floor bay windows. Fenestration is as elsewhere, though with taller lower sash at central apertures. (Multiple-pane storms remain at no. 76). Bay window roofs are clad in zinc at no. 74, shingles at no. 76. Second floors have pair of typical windows under smaller, flatter gables with vertical boards, staggered horizontals and central wooden lozenge, all with rock-faced render between. Beaded soffit boards are over fine brackets with pendant finials. Fascias have deep, ogee-type shingle mouldings, and roof is clad in asphalt shingles. |
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