Nathaniel Hunter House
www.brampton.ca/en/City-Hall/Bylaws/2011/126-2011.pdf
The property at 21 Brisdale Drive, formerly 1120 Bovaird Drive West is worthy of designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value. The property meets the criteria for designation prescribed by the Province of Ontario under the three categories of design or physical value, historical value and contextual value.
The cultural heritage value of the Nathaniel Hunter House is related to its design or physical value as a Georgian, Classic Revival House from the early Victorian period. The Georgian style was popular from 1750 to 1850. Georgian style homes are characterized by simplicity, symmetry, and solidarity. They are typically five bay homes with sash windows, comice embellishments, and dentil molding along the eaves. The main entrance is usually centered, paneled, with a decorative crown and flattened columns on both sides. They reflected the larger, more elaborate houses that were being built in England. The Classic Revival style gained prominence in 1820 to 1860. Like the Georgian style, the Classic Revival style is known for its symmetry and elegant simplicity of form. It embraced classical Greek forms and occasional Roman influences.
Built circa 1850, the Nathaniel Hunter House is located on land that has been used for agricultural purposes since the early 19th century. The house is distinguished by its unobscured gable roofline, all original and existing eave, verge, soffit and frieze board trim work, the original exterior brickwork, and especially the Flemish bond. Brickwork on the front and east facades indicates that these walls were for presentation to impress visitors coming up the lane from the road which is now Bovaird Drive West.
The property also has historical or associative value as it can be associated with Brampton's early settlers, particularly the Hunter family. According to the Perkins Bull Collection, James Hunter was an early Peel County pioneer, who arrived in Upper Canada in 1836 from County Tyrone, Ireland, and settled on the outskirts of Derry West. He purchased land for his sons Nathaniel, Joseph, and William who become well-known farmers in the early history of the community of Mount Pleasant, the Town of Brampton, Chinguacousy Township and Peel County. The structure is the only remaining example of three houses built in the mid-Victorian period by a member of the Hunter family.
The property also holds important contextual value. The property is directly associated with the early settlement of Brampton and its rich agricultural legacy. While the agricultural landscape and farming fields around the Nathaniel Hunter house have vanished, the house still has contextual value as it is being preserved in situ and retains
its physical relationship to the historical Highway 7. The setback of the house alludes to the agricultural functions that once dominated the area.
Good thing they saved it; it's now surrounded by a suburban shopping plaza development, in the middle of the plaza parking lot...
Brampton, Ontario. (Confusingly, the neighbourhood is Mount Pleasant, of which there are several in Ontario...)
Nathaniel Hunter House
www.brampton.ca/en/City-Hall/Bylaws/2011/126-2011.pdf
The property at 21 Brisdale Drive, formerly 1120 Bovaird Drive West is worthy of designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value. The property meets the criteria for designation prescribed by the Province of Ontario under the three categories of design or physical value, historical value and contextual value.
The cultural heritage value of the Nathaniel Hunter House is related to its design or physical value as a Georgian, Classic Revival House from the early Victorian period. The Georgian style was popular from 1750 to 1850. Georgian style homes are characterized by simplicity, symmetry, and solidarity. They are typically five bay homes with sash windows, comice embellishments, and dentil molding along the eaves. The main entrance is usually centered, paneled, with a decorative crown and flattened columns on both sides. They reflected the larger, more elaborate houses that were being built in England. The Classic Revival style gained prominence in 1820 to 1860. Like the Georgian style, the Classic Revival style is known for its symmetry and elegant simplicity of form. It embraced classical Greek forms and occasional Roman influences.
Built circa 1850, the Nathaniel Hunter House is located on land that has been used for agricultural purposes since the early 19th century. The house is distinguished by its unobscured gable roofline, all original and existing eave, verge, soffit and frieze board trim work, the original exterior brickwork, and especially the Flemish bond. Brickwork on the front and east facades indicates that these walls were for presentation to impress visitors coming up the lane from the road which is now Bovaird Drive West.
The property also has historical or associative value as it can be associated with Brampton's early settlers, particularly the Hunter family. According to the Perkins Bull Collection, James Hunter was an early Peel County pioneer, who arrived in Upper Canada in 1836 from County Tyrone, Ireland, and settled on the outskirts of Derry West. He purchased land for his sons Nathaniel, Joseph, and William who become well-known farmers in the early history of the community of Mount Pleasant, the Town of Brampton, Chinguacousy Township and Peel County. The structure is the only remaining example of three houses built in the mid-Victorian period by a member of the Hunter family.
The property also holds important contextual value. The property is directly associated with the early settlement of Brampton and its rich agricultural legacy. While the agricultural landscape and farming fields around the Nathaniel Hunter house have vanished, the house still has contextual value as it is being preserved in situ and retains
its physical relationship to the historical Highway 7. The setback of the house alludes to the agricultural functions that once dominated the area.
Good thing they saved it; it's now surrounded by a suburban shopping plaza development, in the middle of the plaza parking lot...
Brampton, Ontario. (Confusingly, the neighbourhood is Mount Pleasant, of which there are several in Ontario...)