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| ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: This is a late nineteenth century century home and displays the complexity of architecture at that time. Although built in the Queen Anne Revival style, it has detailing of the Romanesque style. The roof is irregular and complicated, but is composed basically of several steeply pitched gables and one overhanging gable dormer. The gables themselves are pedimented with some rafters exposed. The pediment has a set of triple windows in a bold wooden surround. Trimming the windows are tooled pilasters and heavy end tablature. Decorative shingles complete the pediment. Generally, the cornice is bare and the eaves are trimmed only by fascia board. The stretcher-bond bricked house has various types of structural openings from flat on the top storey, to segmental on the projecting south bay, to rounded Romanesque on the front. facade. Voussoirs head most windows, but protruding arched gables of brick surround the semi elliptical openings. Stringer courses join the sills of the house and join the tips of the arches on the main facade. The main door is set in one of the arched openings but is itself flat. Another striking feature on the house is a second storey bell-cast balcony adorned with heavy turned balusters and turned columns. The balcony roof is supported by brackets and exhibits a molded frieze. The open end of the balcony is partially filled by lattice like woodwork. The spooled columns are turned and have a rounded, bulbous appearance. On the first storey, a shed-roofed porch with the same characteristics can be seen. The house sits on a squared stone foundation with segmental basement windows. |
 Penstowe Bed & Breakfast as illustrated in this photo in The Globe 1894  ADDRESS: 98 Ontario St., Town Plot Lot 35 STYLE: Queen Anne Revival BUILT: 1890 BUILDER: Thomas Wickett ARCHITECT: G.M. Miller ORIGINAL OWNER: Mary Ellen Wickett PRESENT OWNER : Betty Ann & Larry Knutson HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: The original owners were Thomas Wicket and his wife Mary Ellen. Thomas and his brother John Wickett were dry goods merchants in Port Hope. The Wicketts came from Cornwall England and originally named this house Penstowe. Its name coinciding with roots in Cornwall England. where the original owner Mr. Wickett was born. "Pen" is a common Cornish prefix that means "FORT" "Stowe"... means by the water or sea. The house appears, shortly after being built, in The Globe on June 23, 1894. At this point, the lot was treeless and surrounded by an iron fence.  The modern day Penstowe Bed & Breakfast |