THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON

 

BY-LAW NUMBER 137-1992

 

A By-law to designate property known as 496 Walker's Line, Part Lot 11, Concession 3 SDS, in the City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton, as property having historical and architectural value and interest pursuant to the Ontario Heritage Act.

 

WHEREAS by Section 29(6)(a) of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, chapter 0.18, as amended, the Council of a municipality shall pass a by-law designating property to be of historical and architectural value and interest where no Notice of Objection to the designation has been served on the City Clerk within thirty days after the date of first publication of the Notice of Intention to designate in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality;

 

AND WHEREAS Notice of Intention to Designate 496 Walker's Line was published in a local newspaper and served on the owners of the property and on the Ontario Heritage Foundation by registered mail;

 

AND WHEREAS the reasons for the said designation are set out in Schedule "A" attached hereto and forming part of this by-law;

 

AND WHEREAS no Notice of Objection was served on the City Clerk of the City of Burlington.

 

NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:

 

1.  THAT 496 Walker's Line, more particularly described in Schedule "B" attached hereto and forming part of this by-law, be designated as being of architectural and historical value and interest.

 

2.  THAT the City Clerk be directed to cause a Notice of this by-law to be published in a local newspaper having general circulation in the municipality.

 

3.  THAT the City Clerk be directed to cause a certified true copy of this by-law to be served upon the owners of 496 Walker's Line and the Ontario Heritage

Foundation.

 

4.  THAT this by-law shall take effect on the date of its registration in the Land Registry Office for the Land Registry Division of Halton (No. 20).

 

 

ENACTED AND PASSED this 23rd day of November, 1992.

 

 

MAYOR: _________________________________________

 

 

CITY CLERK: _____________________________________

 

 

SCHEDULE "A"

 

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION

 

496 WALKER'S LINE

 

This house was built c.1913 by John Henry Walker Jr. and his wife Beatrice on a 20 acre parcel of farmland that had remained in the Walker family since 1816.  They were the fourth generation to inherit a portion of the original family farm.  Walker's Line bears this family's name.

 

The house and barn are indicative of the farming origins of the area, while the house is a representative example of the Edwardian classical style.  The many classical motifs, dentil moldings, doric colonettes, and palladian windows foreshadow the simplified, but formal composition architecture was to take into the twentieth century. The contrasting stone accents, veranda with original railing, voussoir brick and eared window moldings further typify Edwardian Classicism.

 

 

SCHEDULE"B"

 

DETAILED PROPERTY DESCRIPTION

 

496 WALKER'S LINE

 

Part Lot 11, Concession 3, SDS, City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton, more particularly described as follows:

 

ALL AND SINGULAR that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate lying and being in the City of Burlington in the Regional Municipality of Halton and being part of Lot 11 Concession 3 South of Dundas Street (formerly in the Township of Nelson, now in the City of Burlington) more particularly described as follows:

 

PREMISING that the bearings are astronomic and are referred to the Southwesterly limit of the road allowance between Lots 10 and 11 Concession 3 South of Dundas Street in the said Township of Nelson (also known as Walker's Line) as being North 44 degrees 48 minutes West (N 440 48' W) and relating all bearings herein thereto:

 

BEGINNING at the most Easterly angle of the said Lot 11;

 

THENCE North 44 degrees 48 minutes West (N 44° 48' W) along the Northeasterly limit of the said Lot 11, Five Hundred and Ninety-Seven and Sixty-Two One Hundredths feet (597.62') to an iron pipe;

 

THENCE South 44 degrees 21 minutes and 30 seconds West (S 44° 21' 30" W) Twenty-Eight and Seventy One Hundredths feet (28.70') to a point in the Southwesterly limit of Walker's Line as widened, said point being the point of commencement of the hereinafter described parcel of land;

 

THENCE South 44 degrees 21 minutes and 30 seconds West (S 44° 21' 30" W) Two Hundred and Nineteen and Seventy-Two One Hundredths feet (219.72') to a point in the Northeasterly limit of Lot 17, Registered Plan 792;

 

THENCE North 44 degrees 48 minutes West (N 44° 48' W) along the Northeasterly limit of the said Lot 17, Ninety-Seven and Forty-Seven One Hundredths feet (97.47') to an iron bar marking the Southerly corner of Lot 16, Registered Plan 792;

 

THENCE North 48 degrees 35 minutes and 30 seconds East (N 48° 35' 30" E) along the Southeasterly limit of the said Lot 16 and its production Northeasterly Two Hundred and Twenty and Forty-Three One Hundredths feet (220.43') to a point in the said Walker's Line as widened;

 

THENCE South 44 degrees 33 minutes and 30 seconds East (S 44°0 33' 30" E) along the said widened limit Eighty-One and Twenty One Hundredths feet (81.20') to the point of commencement.

 

As in Instrument No. 526570.