28 Huron Street – West Building
(Block 109 b & c)

Two-storey, two-bay, red-brick building with original shop-front cornices and brackets, stone trim and machicolated upper brick cornice (c. 1890).

- Ground Floor – Replacement shop-fronts has recessed, modern doors at either side and low, brick stall-risers. Brick piers have carved stone bases with moulded, stone band above, the latter extending into party walls at doorways. Upper shop-front windows may be hidden by deep plywood fascias (over tongue-and-groove boards) now painted with bright, inappropriate images. Original frieze boards remain above, and decorative wooden brackets at piers are intact, with original, dentilled, wooden cornice spanning between.

- Second Floor – Paired, round-headed apertures, with double hood-mouldings, contain dull, single-pane, replacement windows. Keystones, imposts and stringcourse, and sills are painted cast-stone. Brickwork is sandblasted throughout. At high level, two projecting, segmental arches span between simple pilasters, upper arch having serrated voussoirs.

- Parapet – Deep, machicolations at wall-head, with small parapet above, are concealed by very deep metal flashing. (Stokes laments the “loss of the upper cornice” of which a remnant now remains only at 18 Huron St.). Staggered corbelling also occurs at central pilaster, and in stepped, corner treatment of outer pilasters.

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