The Tudor Revival is a twentieth century movement in architecture based on sixteenth century English tastes, adapted to modern comforts. Tudor Revival structures tend to have steeply pitched roofs, often with heavy shingles. Some attempt to create the appearance of a thatched roof. Chimneys are common to find on Tudor Revival houses and are often decorated with stonework to make them stand out. If the roof contains odd angles, shapes, or asymmetrical placements of gables, eaves, and other features, the house is built on an asymmetrical floor plan. Tudor-era cottages were built upon over time, with each generation adding or taking away from the family home. As a result, the floor plans were often uneven. Tudor Revival homes are generally designed and built all at once, but the asymmetrical layout helps capture the feel of a family cottage that has been amended over time. Many buildings are composed of patterned brick or stone on the lower floor, but nearly all Tudor Revival structures will at some point transition to half-timbering. Half-timbering was a Tudor-era construction method in which a timber frame for the house would be constructed, but then the spaces between timbers were filled in with plaster or brick instead of more wood. The result was that the timber frame was left exposed, visible, and became part of the decorative elements of the building.
Historic Pickering Village within the Town of Ajax – 109 Old Kingston Road – TudorBurlington – 566 Locust Street – Tudor style, verge board trimCambridge – Galt Book 1 – 4 Brant Road South – Tudor-like style with exposed beams but with red brick exterior; 2nd floor balcony above verandahCobourg Book 3 – 174 Green Street – 1840 – Haskell House was built in the Tudor Gothic style – It was a theological college to train Anglican priests. For many years it was a public school known locally as the Corktown School. In 1906, Mrs. Haskell of Chicago bought it as a summer home and added a second story and a back wing.Cornwall – 101 Second Street West – Tudor half-timbering in gable; two-story bay window; pediment; turned wooden porch supports with open railingDundas Book 2 – 67 South Street – Tudor style trimDunnville Book 1 – 241 Broad Street West – The Lalor Estate is a two-and-a-half-story residence with a four-gable roof and a wraparound veranda with fluted columns. This Edwardian structure was built in 1905. Its builder was Francis Ramsey Lalor, a prominent Dunnville businessman, politician, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. His business interests included two dry goods stores, a grocery store, an apple evaporator, natural gas wells, the F.R. Lalor Canning Factories, the F.R. Lalor Ashes Company, and the Monarch Knitting Mills. The exterior walls are red brick. There is a two-story bay window, Tudor-style timbering in the gable, a pediment above the entrance with a decorative tympanum, and sidelights beside the front door.Elmira Book 1 – 20 South Street – Tudor style, pediment above porchFergus – St. David Street – W. G. Beatty, Foundry – c. 1912 – Tudor styleRidgeway – 1061 Ridge Road NorthGuelph Book 1 – 26 Stuart Street – Ker Cavan Coach House built 1928-29 in the Tudor Revival style as part of the expansion of Ker CavanIngersoll Book 1 – 316 Oxford Street – Many of the features of a Tudor style house have been incorporated in this home, including the patterned brick work, interesting chimney treatment, groups of rectangular windows, and complex roof line with many gables. Straight clean lines and design are typical. The home was built in 1937 and given to Harold and Lorna Wilson by his father E.A. Wilson as a wedding present. The Wilson family owned the Ingersoll Machine & Tool Company and were also involved in speed boat racing. In 1939 Harold won the President’s Cup with his craft “Miss Canada”, making the first time in U.S. boat racing history that the cup was won by a foreigner. Harold is included in the Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.Kingston Book 6 – King Street West – Tudor style, dormersKitchener Book 2 – 222 Pandora Crescent – Tudor styleDryden – Tudor styleLondon – Tudor styleNiagara Falls Book 1 – 6135 Culp Street – This was the home of H. R. Acres, the Chief Hydraulic Engineer for the Sir Adam Beck Generating Station No. 1. The Tudor Revival style is shown with its exposed wood beams. The central bay projects forward and is surmounted by a central pediment in the roof. The front entrance is protected by a roof supported by brackets. The front entrance has a double door with sidelights.Niagara-on-the-Lake Book 1 – 184 Queen Street – Tudor styleOshawa Book 3 – 55 Connaught Street – J.H. Beaton House – c. 1928 – Tudor styleOttawa Book 3 – 17 Blackburn Avenue – Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Tudor style – half-timbering, dormersOttawa Book 2 – 555 Mackenzie Avenue – The Connaught Building – 1913 – Tudor Gothic – named after the Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria, who served as 10th Governor General of Canada from 1911–16 – faced in rusticated sandstone, embellished with turrets, a crenellated roof line, buttresses, corbelling, niches, carved embellishments, an ogee arched entrance and rows of flat-headed windows accented by dressed quoinsOttawa Book 3 – 197 Wurtemburg Street – 1869 – Embassy of the Republic of Turkey – Tudor style – The central portion of the building was a picturesque Gothic Revival structure constructed for W.F. Whitcher, Commissioner of Fisheries. The two wings and the Tudoresque half-timbering were added when the structure served as a Children’s Hospital from 1888-1904.Owen Sound Book 2 – Tudor styleParis Book 1 – 42 Broadway Street West – Tudor style stucco housePort Colborne Book 1 – 72 Charlotte Street – St. James’ Guild Hall – Tudor style, turretPort Hope Book 3 – 44 Pine Street North – c. 1816 – The two-story brick house in the Tudor Manor style has a steeply pitched gable roof, two chimneys, decorative buttresses, stepped gables with thickly molded windows, and enclosed front porch. on the ground floor there are double casement sash windows with Gothic tracery and a quatrefoil pattern in the top two panes. On the frontispiece above the brick porch is a Gothic arched double casement sash window. The brick porch is reinforced at the corners by attached pillars.Sarnia Book 3 – 144 Maria Street – Tudor style – Elizabethan ManorSault Ste. Marie – 1129 Queen Street East – A-frame dwelling with Tudor half-timbering on the gableSt. Catharines Book 3 – 344 Merritt Street – The former Merritton Public Library was built in 1924 through a grant for the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. The building was designed in the Neo-Tudor style by renowned local architect Arthur Nicholson. The front entrance has a large Tudor-arch with decorative buttresses. A decorated parapet surrounds the flat roof and there is a single chimney. The exterior of the building is a dark discolored rough brick. There is a light-colored stone frieze around the building located below the diamond shaped stone decorations in the brickwork. The many windows allow a lot of natural light into the building. The windows are surrounded by wooden mullions.St. Catharines Book 4 – 113 Lake Street – The former Grantham Fire Hall was constructed of steel and masonry in the Neo-Tudor style. The traditional red brick facade is laid in Flemish bond pattern; there is an elaborate decorative painted wood cornice and frieze. Decorative, rare circle muntin bars are in second floor windows. A stone carving set in entablature over the main door shows a fire carriage being pulled by horses, and stone plaques set in masonry show the firefighting crest. The building was built to accommodate a horse drawn hose wagon.St. Marys Book 1 – 218 Jones Street East – Tudor Revival – 1914 – Jacobean gables, dormer, gambrel roofStoney Creek – 91 Lake Avenue – Tudor, corner quoinsThamesford – 127 Delatre Street West – Tudor half-timberingThunder Bay Book 1 (Port Arthur) – 35 High Street – Tudor half-timbering on steep gables, shed dormer in atticThunder Bay Book 3 (Fort William) – 400 Catherine Street South – This house was built in 1911 for William Ross and his family. Ross worked as an engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway and as the treasurer of Northern Engineering. Starting in 1947 the house was used by the Lakehead Board of Education. In 1966 it was sold and was divided into apartments and remains as such today. This two and a half story Tudor Revival home was constructed of red sandstone. Architectural features include the massive three story portico on the facade, and the truncated hipped roof. The north and south slopes of the roof each have a chimney.Tillsonburg – #16 – Tudor styleTown of Pelham (Fonthill) – Pelham Street – TudorWaterdown – 47 Elgin Street – Tudor styleWaterloo Book 1 – 33 Erb Street West – Tudor styleWaterloo Book 1 – 47 Albert Street – a Tudor Revival (Arts and Crafts) style house built in 1924 by the manager of the Globe Furniture Company, a world leader in furniture manufacturing especially church and school furnishings and religious carvingsWelland Book 1 – 41 Frazer Street – Rose-Rohaly House – three-story residence built c. 1906 – converted in 1920s to Tudor Revival style characterized by exposed timbers with stucco infill and multi-paned windowsWelland Book 2 – 194 Merritt Street West – Tudor styleWindsor Book 1 – 811 Devonshire Road – Foxley – The Ambery-Isaacs House – 1906-1907 Tudoresque/Arts and Crafts – half-timbered upper story and gable, and the entrance portico blend Medieval and early 20th Century in a harmonious mannerWindsor Book 1 – 1899 Niagara Street – Willistead Manor – The exterior of gray limestone, quarried in Amherstburg, was hand-cut at the Willistead work site by Scottish stonemasons specifically imported for the project. Tudoresque half-timberingWindsor Book 1 – 2088 Willistead Crescent – Tudor style – Dr. Charles W. Hoare Residence – 1920Woodstock Book 3 – 140 Vansittart Avenue – Tudor Revival style – 1½ story, stucco/timber in gables, salt box roof and gable roof at rear with gable wall dormer, multi-lights in grouped casement windows, off-centered doorWoodstock Book 4 – 93 Light Street – c. 1849 – Modern Tudor architectural style – two-story, rug brick, trunked roof, shed dormer, off-centered door
