Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 7650/18The Corporation of the City of. Pickering By-law No. 7650/18 Being a by-law to designate a property legally described as Part of Lot 23, Concession 5, being Part 2, 40R-24276 (the "William Brignal House") and municipally known as 1200 Whitevale Road, City of Pickering, as being of cultural heritage value or interest. Whereas pursuant to Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act, the Council of a municipality is authorized to enact by-laws to designate a real property, including all buildings and structures thereon, to be of cultural heritage value or interest; Whereas on June 27, 2016, Council of The Corporation of the City of Pickering endorsed the recommendations of its Heritage Advisory Committee to designate the William Brignal House, municipally known as 1200 Whitevale Road, Pickering (the "Property") to be of cultural heritage value or interest; Whereas the City Clerk caused notice of the intention to designate the Property to be served on the owner of the Property and the Ontario Heritage Trust and published in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality; Whereas no notice objecting to the upon the Clerk of the municipality; Now therefore the Council of The Corporation of the City of Pickering enacts as follows: 1. That the Property is designated to be of cultural heritage value or interest. That a statement explaining the cultural heritage value or interest of the Property and a description of the heritage attributes of the Property are set out on Schedule A attached hereto: 3. That the City Clerk is authorized to cause a copy of this by-law to be served upon the owner of the Property and the Ontario Heritage. Trust and to publish notice of this by-law in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality. 4. That the City Solicitor is authorized to cause a copy of this by-law' to be registered against the Property in the proper Land Registry Office. By-law passed this 17th day of September, 2018. proposed designation of the Property was served David. Ryan, 6' Debbie Shields, City Clerk Description of Property Schedule A to. By-law No. 7650/18 Statement of Significance The property known municipally as 1200 Whitevale Road, also known as the William Brignal House, is located on the north side of Whitevale Road, east of the Hamlet of Whitevale as shown on the Location Map provided as Exhibit 1. Statement of Cultural Value or Interest The William Brignal House has design and physical value because it is a representative example of an Ontario cottage dwelling type as it developed in Ontario during the Victorian era. It is a one -and -a -half storey, T-shaped, brick house with a one -storey kitchen tail at the rear. The west wing was built in the mid -1870s by owner William Brignal, expanded in the early 1880s by late owner John Tool and the kitchen wing at the rear was likely added in the early 20t" century. The house incorporates several features typical of the Ontario cottage style, includingthe three -bay form, side gable roof with centre gable and central entrance and symmetrical openings of each wing. The dichromatic brick patterning, intricate wooden bargeboard, and fretwork and round -arched openings with molded surrounds exemplify the Ontario cottage of the 1870s and 1880s. The buff -brick embellishments on red -brick walls and wooden detailing along the eaves and front verandah display a high degree of artistic merit and craftsmanship. The property has historical and associative value because it is associated with the early settlement of the area and the development of local agriculture. The property has contextual value because the farmhouse is important in maintaining and supporting the rural 19th century landscape along the Whitevale Road corridor and is visually linked to the surrounding agricultural fields and to heritage resources in the Whitevale Heritage Conservation District. Description of Heritage Attributes The heritage attributes of the William Brignal House are: its one -and -a -half storey, T-shaped, brick house with a one -storey kitchen tail at the rear the form and massing of each wing, consistent with the Ontario cottage type including: steeply sloped, side -gable roofs with centre gables over central entrances and symmetrically arranged window openings • the evenly coursed, granite foundation its wood detailing, including plain and moulded friezes along the eaves and bargeboard with ball and drop pendants along the gables the dichromatic brick exterior, consisting of buff -brick embellishments on red -brick walls, and including: a three -course band of buff bricks above the foundation, encircling the house • quoins along the corners cusped motif stringcourse along the front elevation, above the verandah • pinwheel -design below the front peak with a central checkerboard rounded arches above windows with projecting header course and projecting arch springing red and buff arches on the second floor with projecting header course and springing • an arch above the front door with projecting header • the flared hipped roof verandah with intricate fretwork and chamfered support columns the projecting bay window with three, round-arched windows round-arched window and door openings surviving two-over-two glazed, wooden window units aspects of the farmhouse that illustrate its use by two generations or two families including the two main entrances and the two symmetrical facades • its siting facing Whitevale Road, and the visibility and legibility of its heritage attributes from WhitevaleRoad Exhibit 1 Whitevale Road Lands Subject to By -Law 7650/18 Ca# Location Map File: Designation By -Law oi PICKERI NG City Development Department Property Description: Part Lot 23, Concession 5, being Part 2, 40R-24276 (1200 Whitevale Road) Date: Sep. 11, 2018 D The Corporation of the Clly of Pickering Produced On part) under license from:0 Queens Printer, Ontana MInfstry of Natural Resources. All rights reserved.,0 Her Majesty the Queen In Right of Canada, Department of Natural Resources. A! rights reserved.; OTeranet Enlemdses Inc. and Its suppliers all lights reserved.; 0 Municipal Property Assessment Corparalbn and ds suppflers all right reserved.; SCALE. 1:7,500 THIS IS NOT A PLANT OF SURVEY.