Cockshutt Plow Company Office and Timekeeper’s Building
66 Mohawk Street, Brantford, Ontario
Office Building
Remaining Warehouse
Timekeeper’s Building
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
Foundation / First Floor
The foundation walls of the raised
basement are coursed range, rockfaced limestone topped with a single
course of smooth dressed limestone.
The main exterior wall material is a
pressed red brick laid in a stretcher
bond pattern. A recessed single brick
course creates a rusticated
appearance on the first floor wall
surface and corner pilasters.
The first floor outer bays have
window heads with brick voussoirs in
a skewback arch. The front left corner
windows have are double-hung
sashes with 3/3 horizontal panes.
The top of the first floor is indicated
by 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-faced
limestone
North Elevation
The north elevation continues
the design of the side bays in
the front façade.
Three symmetrical bays
contain double-hung windows
with brick voussoir heads in a
skewback arch.
3/3 horizontal
window panes
3 window grouping
The centre and right bays of
the first floor have window
sashes with 3/3 horizontal
panes. The first floor, centre
bay has a grouping of three
narrow windows. These
features may indicate the
company’s executive offices.
The side entrance door has a
wooden panel surround and
contains side and transom
lights as in the front entrance
porch.
stone lintel
wooden mullion
stone sill
transom windows
stone transom bar
Feature Windows
The outer bays of the triple arch frontispiece contain single window units with doublehung 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 drip moulding
namestone
stone lintel
wooden mullion
stone transom bar
coping
brick dentils (alternating)
architrave/frieze
capital
stone string course
smooth pilaster
corbelled brick
Decorative Brickwork
The 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.
Main Entrance Porch
A focal point in the symmetrical design
of the office building façade is the brick
and stone entrance porch. The threesided front steps are substantial in size
leading to a wide porch opening. The
entrance has since been closed in with
a wooden frame surrounding a single
door, three transom lights and single
side lights.
The front corners of the porch have
three piers with brick shafts, stone
capitals and bases. Each group
stands on a single, large datestone
base. The left base is carved with the
date of the company’s establishment
(1877) and the right with the
construction date of this particular
building (1903) - 25 years in business.
The piers support a stone entabulature
and a brick parapet. The triangular
peak has a stone coping and contains
a carved namestone.
parapet
entabulature
capital
shaft
side light
datestone
parapet
step
namestone
stone string course
stone transom bar
Timekeeper’s Building
This small, gable roof building had an impressive brick façade added in 1912.
Its features were modelled on the Company Office building beside it with little
deviation. The façade sillhouette is similar to the Office porch parapet but with
two steps leading to a rectangular top. The three rounded arches are used
again but with much larger proportions. Each arch springs from a stone string
course across the entire width of the building front. As in the Office façade, the
centre bay holds a carved namestone over a single coupled window unit with a
solid stone transom bar.
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
Grinding, Mounting and Blacksmith Shops
(south east on Mohawk Street)
Brantford Fire Insurance Map (1919)