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Online Heritage Inventory

Fentiman House

General Information
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Type of Resource: Building
Common Name: Fentiman House
Address: 8051 No 1 Road
Neighbourhood (Planning Area Name): Seafair
Construction Date: 1912
Current Owner: Private
Designated: No

Statement of Significance
Description of Site
The Fentiman house is a two-storey Edwardian Builder style house situated in a residential neighbourhood on No. 1 Road. The house has a moderately sized front yard providing separation from the road and sidewalk.

 Statement of Values
The Seafair location of the Fentiman house reflects the suburban residential development of Richmond during the first decades of the 20th century, and is associated with a period just prior to World War I when Richmond was undergoing consolidated municipal growth and a transition to an industrial economy, although agriculture and fishing continued to be important sources of Richmond’s prosperity.
The house is significant as a very good example of the Edwardian style with Craftsman influences and as the only listed heritage building in this neighbourhood.

 Character Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the site include:
· The early Edwardian Builder style of the entire house, which includes elements such as the vertical massing, hipped roof, and front verandah with bell-cast roof and support columns
· The Craftsman influences of the house design, including a gabled dormer window , open railing on the verandah, and square columns supporting the verandah roof
· Mature trees at the rear of the house which reflect both the age and residential character of the historic place.

 History
The Fentiman house is a two-storey Edwardian Builder style house situated in a residential neighbourhood on No. 1 Road. The house has a moderately sized front yard providing separation from the road and sidewalk.

 Architectural Significance
Architectural Style
Edwardian with Craftsman Influences

 Building Type
Domestic

 Design Features
The building is rectangular in plan with a concrete foundation and symmetrical massing. The house is capped by a bellcast hip roof with a gable dormer and two brick chimneys offset rear and side. The roof covering is asphalt shingle. A large open verandah extends across the front of the house; the north side has been filled in. There is a shed roof with hipped returns over the verandah, which has square supporting piers and an open railing. Double hung wooden sash windows are grouped in double and triple assembly. The house has been painted in a cream, grey and burgundy colour scheme, which is suitable for a house of this style.

 Construction Method
Wood frame construction.

 Landscape Significance
Landscape Element
Mature Trees

 Integrity
Alterations
There has been a deck/carport addition on the south side, a new porch built at the rear, some aluminum window replacements, and part of the front verandah has been filled in. The alterations are considered recognizable and therefore reversible.

 Original Location
Yes

 Condition
The building is considered to be in good condition. It appears well maintained

 Lost
No

 Documentation
Evaluated By
Denise Cook BLA, PBD (Public History)

 Date
Sunday, September 24, 2000

 Documentation
Inventory Sheets by Foundation Group Designs, January 1990
“Heritage Inventory Phase II” by Foundation Group Designs May 1989

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