9 - 11 Simcoe Street



Two-storey, red-brick building with articulated brick voussoirs at upper level, and with dog-toothing and dichromatic brick panels between corbelled pilasters at rebuilt parapet (c. 1890).

Ground Floor – Structure is essentially a continuation of Hurontario Street corner building, but without typical shop-fronts, and with a variety of former and existing openings. Entry at no. 9 has old, six-panel door with upper panels formerly, though not originally, glazed, with recent transom window above. An older transom remains over door at no. 11, while door itself is modern glass door, within aperture reduced by simple wood framing. Ground floor windows are single pane, set in segmental brick arches and with pre-cast concrete sills. At LH side, two ground floor apertures have been bricked-up. Projecting masonry base is rendered throughout with pink cement, and is assumed to hide a typical brick plinth.

Second Floor - Upper floor contains replacement windows throughout, all with the badly ventilating bottom-sliders and fixed upper panes. Segmental arches have attractive, articulated brick voussoirs. A wood-stove chimney-breast, now capped at parapet level, corbels out from upper masonry.

Parapet – Decorated, fully rebuilt, parapet hides sloping roof behind, and consists of two, projecting, red-brick bands below spandrels of buff-brick housing central, rectangular, red-brick frames, and with triple, corbelled, red-brick courses above, central course being dog-toothed. Parapet panels are separated by narrow, red-brick pilasters corbelling out above window-head height. Concrete coping exists above.


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