Property Details

• Address: 1 Wellesley Cottages 
• HCD Area: Cabbagetown North HCD 
• Property Description: Private Street - west house of attached 6 Cobblestone Paving - 29' x 154' 
• Building Permit Date: 1887 
• Original Builder: William Hooker 
• Original Occupancy Date: 1888 
• Original Owner: Wm. T. Hooker 
• Original Occupant: William T. Hooker, carpenter, age 45, 2 persons 
• Assessment Rolls: 1886 - Vacant land - Adam Beatty - Spadina Ave 145 x 15 1887 - Vacant Land - Wm. Hooker 145 x 154 1888 - Wm. T. Hooker, carpenter, 45, 29 x 154, Rough Clad, 20 x 24 &7 x 12 - assessment $482 1889 - Wm. T. Hooker, carpenter, 45, 29 x 154, Rough Clad, 20 x 24 &7 x 12 - assessment $482 Owner - Elizabeth M. Hadwen 1890 - William Smithson, bricklayer, 23, 2 people, assessment $735 1892 - Alexander Robertson, gardener, 40, owner E.M. Hadwen, 6 people, assessment $735 1894 - Alexander Robertson, gardener 42, owner E.M. Hadwen, 4 adult, 1 child, assessment $735 1910 - Catherine Robertson w. owner, 3 adults, 5 children, assessment $685 
• Land Use: Residential 
• Building Type: Labourer's cottage, detached from the other cottages on the street 
• Original Architectural Style: Gothic Revival 
• Height: 1 1/2 story 
• Materials: Painted white stucco, red brick chimney right side ; 
• Doors: Brick walkway to wood door with 2 long narrow windows 
• Windows: Fixed window over door, 1 wood sash window on each side of door, 2 narrow fixed windows in door 
• Roof: Asphalt shingle, steep gable over front door - gable facia is very decorative with a finial at the apex of gable 
• Secondary Structures: No 
• Context: Attached cottage on the north side of Wellesley Cottages short asphalt street. North of Wellesley Street. The asphalt ends abruptly, changes to an interlocking brick street, turns west and widens into a parking area in front of the cottages. Interlocking brick street - privately owned. White picket fence for each cottage. 
• Landscape Features: No 
• Trees: No 
• City Inventory: Designated 149-81