August 2022
Tudor-style Arts & Craft home, sometimes known as Tudor Revival, Mock Tudor, or Jacobean style, are multi-story houses made of brick with large sections of half-timbered white stucco siding, giving them a medieval appearance.
Tudors have steeply-pitched gabled roofs with decorative chimney pots, narrow, multi-paned windows, and wooden front doors. Inside, Tudor-style homes feature plaster walls, arched doorways, beamed ceilings, and wood details.
This home and one immediately to the east, are facing demolition in favour of a 6-storey residential building, featuring 117 residential units.
Both are located on Plains Road East, a very busy street in the southern Ontario city of Burlington (This was previously redacted, but on 25 May 2024, the house was destroyed by a fire).
While we certainly can’t save all old buildings and structures, in a world filled with bland, mass produced, cookie-cutter homes void of any flamboyance, detailed craftmanship, distinctive features or originality amongst the boring sameness of everything else, it’s nice to have a few reminders of the way things used to be. This home may not be the best of the best worthy of preservation, but it does serve to remind us that once upon a time, architects has imagination in their designs.
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- Aldershot Tudor-style Arts & Craft House. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Aldershot Tudor-style Arts & Craft House. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Sunroom addition. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Kitchen. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Front room with closed-up fireplace.
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- Front door. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Stairs looking down to the front door. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Bedroom. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Bedroom. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Upstairs Bathroom. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Basement. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Basement. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
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- Garage. Photo: Bruce Forsyth.
Sources: “Report cautions planners: Aldershot MSTA ‘Should’ not adversely affect heritage resources” by Rick Craven, 14 March 2022, HOME OF GEORGE UNSWORTH MAY BE DESIGNATED AS HISTORIC – Local News (local-news.ca), What Is an Arts and Crafts Style House? (mydomaine.com), 284–292 Plains Rd. E., Burlington – Weston Consulting.
Update May 2024: Tudor-style Arts & Craft home destroyed by fire. – Plains Road East fire not investigated by Fire Marshal (insidehalton.com)
