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Cockshutt Plow Company Office and Timekeepers Building66 Mohawk Street, Brantford, Ontario

Office Building

Remaining Warehouse

Timekeepers Building

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Key Architectural Features

triple arch frontispiece with

stone drip moulding

carved namestone

corbelled brick cornice

solid stone string courses

solid stone transom bars

parapet with namestone

triple arch with stone drip

carved namestone

brick and stone porch

carved datestones

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Foundation / First FloorThe foundation walls of the raisedbasement are coursed range, rock-faced limestone topped with a single

course of smooth dressed limestone.

The main exterior wall material is apressed red brick laid in a stretcherbond pattern. A recessed single brick

course creates a rusticatedappearance on the first floor wall

surface and corner pilasters.

The first floor outer bays havewindow heads with brick voussoirs in

a skewback arch. The front left cornerwindows have are double-hungsashes with 3/3 horizontal panes.

The top of the first floor is indicatedby a rock-faced stone string course

over four courses of corbelled brick.

stone string course

corbelled brick

corner pilaster

recessed brick course

smooth dressed

limestone

coursed rock-facedlimestone

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North Elevation

The north elevation continuesthe design of the side bays in

the front faade.

Three symmetrical bayscontain double-hung windowswith brick voussoir heads in askewback arch.

The centre and right bays of

the first floor have windowsashes with 3/3 horizontalpanes. The first floor, centre

bay has a grouping of threenarrow windows. Thesefeatures may indicate thecompanys executive offices.

The side entrance door has awooden panel surround andcontains side and transom

lights as in the front entranceporch.

3/3 horizontal

window panes

3 window grouping

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Feature Windows

The outer bays of the triple arch frontispiece contain single window units with double-

hung sashes 1/1 and a single transom window pane. The central bay has coupled

windows divided by a wooden mullion. All windows have a stone lug sill but the

unusual feature here is the large, solid stone transom bar.

stone lintel

wooden mullion

stone sill

transom windows

stone transom bar

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stone drip moulding

namestone

stone lintel

wooden mullion

stone transom bar

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Decorative BrickworkThe transition between the second floor, third floor and roof level is indicated by four

courses of corbelled brick. The third floor has a stone string course just over the

skewback arch brick window heads. The corner pilasters rise to a corbelled brick

capital (Tuscan Doric style) supporting a brickwork architrave/frieze. Above this is a

large cornice composed of corbelled brick courses, header brick dentils (alternating)

and a stone cornice cap or coping. The frontispiece top appears to have had some sort

of parapet since removed.

coping

brick dentils (alternating)

architrave/frieze

capital

stone string course

smooth pilaster

corbelled brick

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Main Entrance Porch

A focal point in the symmetrical designof the office building faade is the brickand stone entrance porch. The three-sided front steps are substantial in sizeleading to a wide porch opening. Theentrance has since been closed in witha wooden frame surrounding a singledoor, three transom lights and singleside lights.

T

he front corners of the porch havethree piers with brick shafts, stonecapitals and bases. Each groupstands on a single, large datestonebase. The left base is carved with thedate of the companys establishment(1877) and the right with theconstruction date of this particularbuilding (1903) - 25 years in business.

The piers support a stone entabulature

and a brick parapet. The triangularpeak has a stone coping and containsa carved namestone.

parapet

entabulature

capital

shaft

side light

datestone

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Timekeepers Building

This small, gable roof building had an impressive brick faade added in 1912.Its features were modelled on the Company Office building beside it with little

deviation. The faade sillhouette is similar to the Office porch parapet but withtwo steps leading to a rectangular top. The three rounded arches are usedagain but with much larger proportions. Each arch springs from a stone stringcourse across the entire width of the building front. As in the Office faade, thecentre bay holds a carved namestone over a single coupled window unit with a

solid stone transom bar.

parapet

step

namestone

stone string course

stone transom bar

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Warehouse Building

Heavy timber interior structural

members

repetition of 3 corbelled header

bricks in cornice

12 identical 3-storey bays

windows are double-hung with

semi-circular brick heads and

stone lug sills

poured concrete loading platform

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Grinding,Mounting and Blacksmith Shops

(south east on Mohawk Street)

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Brantford Fire Insurance Map (1919)