Appendix A

(from By-law No. 5896, February 6, 1978)

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION

(GIRARDOT HOUSE, 3203 PETER STREET)

Reasons for Designation

A good example of Victorian Architecture with many remaining late 19th Century interior and exterior architectural features including an iron fence along Mill and Peter Streets. The structure is in an unusually good state of preservation forming an important part of the street scape.

Expanded Heritage Description (not written in the Heritage Designation Bylaw 5896

Exterior Heritage Elements include:

• Placement and setback of the historic structure and street composed of open greenspace yard

• Scale, form and massing of the two and half storey brick building with irregular plan with historic wings at the rear (new addition to the south side)

• Variety of brick Bond Patterns, with wood trim and cut stone foundation

• Variety of roof (shingled) with truncated hipped roof at west, hipped roofs at original/historic north and south wings, and gable roof at rear east wing

• Brick Chimneys at north and east sides (south side chimney approved for removal)

• Arched top dormers with decorative moulding and mock keystone on north and west sides

• Wooden boxed cornice with deeply projecting eaves and decorative frieze including double sets of brackets

• Double-hung windows with decorative wood surrounds and sills (second floor windows hooded with mock keystone while ground floor windows with triangular pediment)

• Windows and openings including those with brick voussoirs and stone accents