BYLAW - Designate Ballymore Farmhouse Lot 91 - 19951011 - 357394RBY -LAW NUMBER 3573-94.R
OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF AURORA
BEING A BY-LAW to designate
certain lands as being of
architectural and/ or historic value or
interest. (Ballymore Farmhouse)
WHEREAS Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.0.18 (as amended),
authorizes the Council of a municipality to enact by-laws to designate real property, including
all buildings and structures thereon, to be of architectural and/or historic value or interest;
AND WHEREAS The Corporation of the Town of Aurora has been advised by the Local
Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee that certain lands and premises known as
Ballymore Farmhouse situated at 24 Hadley Court, are of historic value and/or interest;
AND WHEREAS The Corporation of the Town of Aurora has caused notice to be served of the
intention to designate the aforesaid structure on the Ontario Heritage Foundation and has caused
such notice to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality for each
of three consecutive weeks;
AND WHEREAS no notice of objection to the proposed designation has been served on the
Clerk of the Municipality;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Aurora enacts as follows:
1. There is designated as being of architectural and/or historic value or interest the building
known as Ballymore Farmhouse on the lands described as follows:
PARCEL 92 , SECTION 65M-3049
being Lot 92, Plan 65M-3049
Town of Aurora
R~gional Municipality of York.
2. The reasons for designation are set out in Schedule "A" attached hereto.
3. The Town Solicitor is hereby authorized to cause a copy of this By-law to be registered
in the proper land registry office in relation to the property described herein.
4. The Municipal Clerk is hereby authorized to cause a copy of this By-law to be served on
the Owner of the aforesaid property and on the Ontario Heritage Foundation and to cause
notice of the passing of this By-law to be published in the same newspaper in which
notice of intention to designate was published once for each of three consecutive weeks.
5. This By-law shall come into full force and effect upon third reading thereof.
READ A FIRST AND SECOND TIME THIS 14TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1994.
READ A THIRD TIME AND FINALLY PASSED THIS 11th DAY OF OCTOBER,1995.
LA NCE ALLISON
MAYO .___ MUNICIPAL CLERK
SCHEDULE "A"
TO By-law 3573-94. R
Ballymore Farmhouse
Reasons for Designation
Ballymore Farmhouse is recommended for designation under the
Ontario Heritage Act for architectural reasons. It is a fine example
of a patterned brick Ontario farmhouse which has been carefully
restored and renovated.
Ballymore's 1~-storey three-bay fa~ade is dominated by a steep
centre gable embellished with elaborate lace-like bargeboard and
a·decorative king post with restored finial. The gable is pierced by
a round-arched opening, reglazed as a transorned sliding-sash window
which provides access to a small balcony. This balcony, like the verandah
below it, was designed by restoration consultant Stephen McCasey.
original features of the fa~ade include, along.with the bargeboard and
king post, broad eaves decorated with mouldings and small paired
brackets, the front doorway with its sidelights and transom, and
decorative brickwork consisting of buff-coloured "quoins," radiating
voussoirs, a water table, and a broad band punctuated by cross-shaped
motifs just below the eaves. These buff-coloured details contrast with
the red brick of the body of the house. (All the face bricks of the
house were removed and.turned around by the present owner, Harold Hadley,
in order to restore the brickwork to its original appearance after it
was painted by previous owners.)
The north and south ends of the house are distinguished by similar
patterned brickwork, with the addition of lozenge-shaped motifs near
the apex of their gables. Their eaves, like those of the fa~ade, are
enriched with mouldings and paired brackets. Unlike the fa~ade,
however, the ends have retained what appear to be their original
two-over-two wooden window sash. All windows are flanked by shutters
as they would have been originally, although the present shutters are
not original· to the house.
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To the west, additions have been designed by Stephen McCasey,
using traditional styles and materials. Hi? gazebo-like sunroom projects
to the southwest and continues the Regency-inspired flavour of the
decorative front verandah.
Historical Background:
Census records for the eastern part of lot 86, concession 1,
Whitchurch and reports in the Aurora Banner of 16 April 1875 and
15 June 1877 indicate that the Ballymore farmhouse was built for
Edward Trent about 1877 to replace a 1~-storey frame house largely
destoryed by fire on or near the same site. Part of the earlier
structure may have been incorporated at the back of the present house,
giving rise to stories of an earlier construction date such as that
given in the book Rural Roots.
The.Trent farm was originally called "Oakley Farm" and the
original house, "Oakley Cottage," both shown on the 1860 Tremaine
map of York County.
The 1871 census records that Edward Trent had been born in
England c. 1830. He and his wife Isabella (then 34) had six children
living at home at that time: Helena (11), Emma (9), Frederick (8),
Wilfred (6), Annie (3), and Louise (1). Their farm consisted of 165
acres, 90 of which were "improved" with pasture, orchard, and fields
producing wheat, barley, peas, potatoes, turnips, beets, carrots, hay,
and clover. In 1881, Emma (17), Frederick (15), William? (13),
Annie (11), Maud (9), a "male" (7), Mary (5), and Louder (3) were
listed within Edward and Isabella Trent's household.
Land registry records indicate that the Trent family had lived
on this land since at least 1851 when Samuel Trent, presumably
Edward's father, acquired 188~ acres here from Joseph Brown. The
1861 census shows Samuel Trent, "gentleman," and his wife Susan
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(aged 62 and 63, respectively) living here along with Edward,
Isabella and Helena, and Edward's older brother Henry with his
wife Elizabeth and children Elizabeth, Matthew, and William. Another
brother, William, left the farm in the late 1850s when he became a
business partner with Newmarket merchant Robert Simpson, later of
Toronto department store fame.
Members of the Trent family continued to own this property
until 1920.
Sources of information:
Abstracts for lot 86, concession 1, E.Y.S. (Registry Office, Newmarket).
1861 and 1871 census, Whitchurch Township.
Tremaine map of York County, 1860. ·
Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of York (Toronto: Miles and
Company, 1878; undated reprint).
Aurora Banner, 16 April 1875 and 15 June 1877.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York (Toronto:
J.H. Beers and Company, 1907), 365-6.
Mary Byers, Rural Roots (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976), 53.
Research and clipping files, Aurora Museum, including information
compiled by Kathryn Anderson and Jacqueline Stuart.
July 1994
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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF AURORA, having enacted By-law 3573-94. R
to designate the lands described in Box (6) herein, hereby applies for registration
of the above-noted by-law, a certified copy being attached hereto.
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