Property Details

• Address: 2 Wellesley Cottages 
• HCD Area: Cabbagetown North HCD 
• Property Description: Private Street - 1 of a row of 6 Cobblestone Paving - 22.6' x 154' “  
• Building Permit Date: 1887 
• Original Builder: William Hooker 
• Original Occupancy Date: 1888 
• Original Owner: Wm. T. Hooker 
• Original Occupant: Fredrick Saunders, tinsmith, 25 
• Assessment Rolls: 1886 - Vacant land - Adam Beatty - Spadina Ave 1887 - Vacant Land - Wm. Hooker 145 x 154 1888 - vacant house - Wm. Hooker, 22.7 x 154, 20 x 24, 7 x 12, ass. $380 1889 - Fredrick Saunders, tinsmith, 25, Wm. Hooker O, 3 people, ass $430 1890 - William Hayes, clerk, 25, O Eliz. M. Hadwin, 2 people ass $587 1892 - Nodnan Calder, bakler, 34, O Eliz. M. Hadwin, 4 persons ass $587 1894 - Wm. Johnson, Toronto Street Railway, O. Eliz. M. Hadwin, 2 persons, assessment $587 ; 1910 - George McLaren, 50, engineer, O. Sarah K. Gooderham, 6 adults, 2 children, ass $488 
• Land Use: Residential 
• Building Type: Labourer's cottage, (the most west of a group of 5 attached cottages) 
• Original Architectural Style: Gothic Revival 
• Height: 1 1/2 story attached cottage 
• Materials: Painted white stucco 
• Doors: Brick walkway leads up to a modern-type door with a large window. Light to left of door ; 
• Windows: 2 sash windows on either side of door. Fixed window above door. 
• Roof: Asphalt shingle, very steep gable above the front door. The gable has very decorative facia and a finial at apex of gable. 
• Secondary Structures: No , 
• Context: Attached cottage on the north side of Wellesley Cottages. Short narrow 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. 
• Landscape Features: Interlocking brick street - privately owned. White picket fence for each cottage. ‚ 
• Trees: No 
• City Inventory: Designated 149-81