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    BACK TO FRONT: By aul Goldsmith and Edwin Rowse The back win, rear aditin, rar extension o tal areal terms used lin Ontari for an extension athe bckandl at ight angles to the main body ofa house. Theterms are used interchangeably and sometimes Inaceurately. There soften a presumption thatthe extension was Built at the same tines the house or lter and this easily leads to wrong Conclusions wien evaluating cara heritage value and interest a this article wil strate, Recently, we vestigated wo bulging: tat cesly contract this presumption about the typology. Extensions were typically used to provide space fora summer kitchen Seperate from the main body of thehoute or for servant quarters, storage or addtional bedrooms, We wlsee though two detalled case Studies how the presumed addition” Identied by familar use, may ‘ctually be the anginal building on Blt to which a frentadaltion was fedded,oen nearer tothe set. ‘ACORN Fall2018 ‘Te proces of discovering and identifying the paterns and ‘characteristics of construction and style is gradval, painstaking work end cut to describe as vividly a tis texperienced. evidence ofage and onstroction es not neces emerge in neat logical sequence as the layers of generations of change ae dented Case studies are the Best means to deserbe the process, (Case Suidy 1: 1615 Brock Steet South. Whitby The frst tudy wasin Whitby where Paul Goldsmith was hired to demolish heritage house with an assignment to salvage hentage materials om the front fagade” and record any heritage deta that were lscovered during, the course ofthe work, The main house, situated within afew hundred metres of Whitby Harbour had once served as apostofice. The building, known as the Abner Nash House was bul 1840in bckand hada wood-famed back “addtion” The property was ones owned by the Seading fom and Prior to that by John Graves Simcoe. A Slapidated and more cent eon-t0 porch and much debris inthe interior Doscuted the character of the 0 called backaddtion: however careful Inspection determined without dout thatthe woodstructure dererbed 253 backadattion was in fat the oiginal structure ne the i840 brik building was the late ont addition. tas the geometry and modes size ofthe alder back buicing tat fist ‘Suggested ferent story. Measuring Just metres by 65 meties (16 by 22 feet) tad a one-and-a-half storey timber framed structure, juste step Up from grade tothe ground floor ‘na foundatin separate from the Bttached 1840 bung, twas several Steps up fam thereto the ground floor ofthe rant brick house and its st0ellke second floor hada very ow ‘ise tal xh 7 . Patera

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