Property Details

• Address: 3 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: Jacob Thompson, carpenter, 35-4 persons 
• Assessment Rolls: 1886 - Vacant land - Adam Beatty - Spadina Ave 1887 - Vacant Land - Wm. Hooker 145 x 154 1888 - Jacob Thompson, carpenter, 35, O - Wm. Hooker, 22.6 x 154, roughcast, assessment $380 1889 - Henry Torbet, gardener, 26, O. Wm. Hooker, 4 people 20 x 24 - 7 x 12, ass $430 1890 - James Baskerville, bill poster, 26, O. Eliz. M. Hadwin, 3 people, ass $587 1892 - James Baskerville, bill poster, 28, O. Eliz. M. Hadwin, 4 persons, ass $587 1894 - James Baskerville, bill poster, 30, O. Eliz. M. Hadwin, 4 persons, assessment $587 1910 - Alfred H. Jones, packer, 60, O. Sarah K. Gooderham, 2 persons, assessment $487 
• Land Use: Residential 
• Building Type: Peaked roof workers' cottage (one 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 wooden door with a large window. Very old screen door covers front entrance. 
• Windows: Fixed window over door and 1 sash window on either side of door. 
• Roof: Black 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 running 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: Group of lilacs - , 
• City Inventory: Designated 149-81 I