THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON

 

BY-LAW NUMBER 45-2009

 

A By-law to designate 5781 Walker’s Line, in the City of Burlington, in the Regional Municipality of Halton, to be of cultural heritage value or interest pursuant to the provisions of the Ontario Heritage Act (R.S.O. 1990, chapter O.18, as amended).

 

WHEREAS Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter O. 18 (as amended) authorizes the Council of a municipality to enact by-laws to designate real property, including all the buildings and structures thereon, to be of cultural heritage value or interest;

 

AND WHEREAS the municipal heritage committee (Heritage Burlington LACAC) supports the designation of the property described herein (s. 29(2));

 

AND WHEREAS a Notice of Intention to Designate has been published in the Burlington Post on 3rd day of October, 2008 and served, by registered mail, in accordance with the Act (s. 29(3));

 

AND WHEREAS an objection to Council’s Notice of Intention to designate was served on the City Clerk on 3rd day of November, 2008) (s. 29(5));

 

AND WHEREAS Council referred the objection to the Conservation Review Board for a hearing and report (s. 29(7));

 

AND WHEREAS the Conservation Review Board held a pre- hearing on the 5th day of February, 2009 (s. 29(8));

 

AND WHEREAS the objection was subsequently withdrawn on the 26th day of May, 2009 (s. 29(13)).

 

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

 

  1. THAT, the property at 5781 Walker’s Line (The Annie and Christopher Richardson Farm) being Pt Lot 5, Con 5 NS, designated as Part 1, 20R8822, as in 76411; EXCEPT 246899, PT 2, 20R8822; PARTS 1 & 2, 20R8184; PARTS 1 & 2, 20R2847, City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton, PIN 07207-0001 (LT) more particularly described in Schedule “A”, is hereby designated as being of cultural heritage value or interest pursuant to Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.

 

  1. The City Clerk shall cause a copy of this by-law to be registered against the property described in Schedule "A" to this by-law in the proper Land Registry Office.

 

  1. The City Clerk shall cause a copy of this by-law to be served upon the owners

of the property at 5781 Walker’s Line (The Annie and Christopher Richardson Farm) and upon the Ontario Heritage Trust and to cause notice of this by-law to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the City of Burlington as required by the Ontario Heritage Act (s. 29(14)).

 

4.  THAT this by-law shall take effect on the date of its passing

 

 

ENACTED AND PASSED THIS 15th day of June, 2009

 

 

MAYOR: _____________________________________

 

 

ACTING CITY CLERK: ________________________

 

 

SCHEDULE “A”

 

Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest:

The Annie and Christopher Richardson Farm

 

The Annie and Christopher Richardson Farm is recommended for designation pursuant to Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act as a property of cultural heritage value or interest, as described in the following Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest.

 

Legal Description:

 

Pt Lot 5, Con 5 NS, designated as Part 1, 20R8822, as in 76411; EXCEPT 246899, PT 2, 20R8822; PARTS 1 & 2, 20R8184; PARTS 1 & 2, 20R2847, City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton, PIN 07207-0001 (LT)

 

Description of Historic Place:

The property is located at the southeast corner of Walker’s Line and Britannia Road and has a view to Rattlesnake Point.  The landscape is rural agricultural.  The property supports a one and one-half storey red brick clad farmhouse built in a bungalow style that is oriented to Walker’s Line.  There is also a drive shed, a timber frame bank barn with concrete silo, modern metal clad barn, and small windmill on the property.  The bungalow, circa 1910, is believed to have been built atop and around an earlier wood clad Ontario vernacular farmhouse. 

 

Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest:

The property at 5781 Walker’s Line is recommended for designation pursuant to Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act based on its physical value, its historical value, and its contextual value.

 

Physical Value:

Built in 1907, the unpainted timber frame barn, with fieldstone foundation and gambrel roof, is an excellent, intact example of an early 20th-century bank barn.  In the absence of a hill, an earthen ramp was created to permit access to each of the barn’s two levels from the ground.  The bank side entrance enabled easy access for wagons bearing hay or grains to the threshing floor and hay loft.  Fodder could also be dropped to the stabling floor below. Typical to traditional bank barn construction, the Richardson barn was built with its long side parallel to, and on the south side of, the man-made bank.  This orientation creates a sheltered south facing barnyard for livestock.  A later concrete silo is also located along the barn’s southerly elevation.

 

A central double width opening with tracked sliding doors provides access to the hay loft.  There are two access points to the stable floor, which now houses horse stalls.  The original iron bull enclosure remains.  Window openings in the fieldstone foundation remain with some of the original wooden single hung divided light sashes intact.  Openings for ventilation remain in the upper reaches of the timber frame cladding.  Windows within the gambrel portion of the hay loft have been closed.  A single storey L-shape extension has been built onto the southerly wall of the barn.  Within the interior of the hay loft, mortised, tenoned and pegged beams arranged in an H-configuration with a columned central aisle (threshing area) remain in excellent condition.   Similarly, a double wheel pulley system remains.  The north wall of the barn was recently braced in a traditional Mennonite barn raising.

 

Historical Value

The property, deeded to Frances Annie Richardson (nee Powell) from her father, H.H. Powell remained in the Richardson family until 2004.  The original parcel has been twice severed, but the farm assembly remains intact and continues in agricultural operation. The barn is known to have housed a range of livestock including cattle over its lifespan.  The barn is now used as a horse and hay barn.

 

Contextual Value

The property has contextual value as a farm assembly comprising the dwelling, the bank barn, the well and the fields to the east.  The arrangement of the farm assembly, specifically the relationships between the location of the dwelling, the well and the barn and the fields to the east, is important to our understanding of life on the farm in Burlington.

 

Heritage Attributes

 

Heritage Attributes important to the preservation of the farm assembly are:

-         Spatial relationship between the “Richardson Bungalow” and the “Richardson Bank Barn”

 

Heritage Attributes important to the preservation of the bank barn are:

-         Timber frame construction;

-         Gambrel roofline;

-         Fieldstone foundation with single hung divided light windows and red brick radiating voussoirs; and the

-         Interior structural system

 

Heritage Attributes important to the preservation of the dwelling are:

-         Low-slung, end-gabled roofline;

-         Open-air porch;

-         Double-hung 6/1 wooden windows