STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Annandale Carriage House

LOCATION

2451 Windsor Road District of Oak Bay PID 002 647 460

DESCRIPTION HERITAGE VALUE

The Annandale Carriage House is located on York The Annandale Carriage House is valued for its Place in the District of Oak Bay. The structure is connection with one of the most historically significant situated on a lot that spans from York Place to houses in Oak Bay, Annandale. The Annandale estate, Prospect Place, with rock walls extending the width as it would be known by 1911, was designed by well of the lot along both roads. The 1 ½ storey Carriage known architect, John Gerhard Tiarks and constructed House is characterized by its side gabled roof with for lawyer and politician, Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper in cantilever balcony and windows with multi coloured 1897 – 1898. Annandale was constructed in tandem flashing in the upper sashes. with the neighbouring Garrison House, which was built for the Honourable Frederick Peters, former Premier and Attorney General of Prince Edward Island; the house burned down in 1932. Tupper and Peters formed a law partnership and established a firm in Victoria shortly after their arrival in 1897. They purchased adjoining lots on York Place and constructed matching residences, which became known as ‘The Bungalows’. The design of the main house, Carriage House, and rock walls reflects the nature of country estate residential development in Oak Bay at the end of the 19th century.

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tenure as Prime Minister. Tupper received a Knighthood for his success at the international tribunal over sealing in the Bering Sea. In 1897, Tupper moved to British Columbia with Character Defining Elements his family settling in Victoria.Tupper hired noteworthy architect, John Gerhard Tiarks to design his family estate and construction began later that same year. Tupper relocated his family to Vancouver in 1900, but retained ownership of Key elements that define the heritage character of the Oak Bay mansion. The property was used as a country the Annandale Carriage House include: retreat for the Tupper family between 1900 and 1911,  Utilitarian form, scale and massing as exemplified illustrative of the lifestyle of prominent men and their families by its 1 ½ storey height, side gabled roof with at the turn of the century. In 1911, Tupper sold the property projecting front gable over a cantilevered upper to Robert Scott; it was a land subdivision during Scott’s floor balcony with square balusters, and square tenure that resulted in the Carriage House and Annandale floor plan with large open ground floor opening main house ultimately occupying separate lots.  Vernacular Queen Anne Revival details such as multi coloured flashing in the upper window The Annandale Carriage House is significant for its history of sashes, dropped scroll cut cresting, pointed ownership including original owner Sir Charles Hibbert vergeboards, and returned crown mouldings on Tupper and subsequent owner Robert Scott. Tupper sold the window heads the property to Scott in 1911. It was under Scott’s ownership  Construction materials including rubble stone that the property was subdivided and improvements made to foundation, wooden drop siding with the property including the construction of the residence, cornerboards, dimensional window and door trim, situated east of the extant Carriage House, for his daughter tongue and groove soffits, and corbelled red brick and son-in-law which later burned down. The use of the chimney Carriage House would also evolve during Scott’s ownership  Double hung wooden sash windows as carriages were replaced by automobiles. It is also likely  Upper floor wooden panelled door with glazed that Scott is responsible for bestowing the estate with the inset and porcelain doorknob Annandale moniker, possibly in reference to his birthplace of Annan, Scotland. The Scott family resided on the property until 1955. The Annandale Carriage House is also valued for its association with lawyer and politician, Sir Charles Hibbert The Annandale Carriage House is additionally significant as Tupper. Tupper was the second son of Sir Charles Tupper an example of a rare surviving outbuilding from a prominent (1821 – 1915), a Father of Confederation and former Prime early estate. The design of the Carriage House, in the Queen Minister of Canada. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1855, Anne Revival style, was executed in a simplified version of Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper studied law at McGill University the main house. The presence of a purpose built carriage and Harvard (1876) and was called to the bar in 1878. In house illustrates the importance of horse drawn 1882, he was elected Conservative MP for Pictou, Nova transportation for those who were living on the outskirts of Scotia, a seat he held until his retirement in 1904. During his urban areas. The residential space on the second floor time in government, Tupper held a number of important indicates the presence of live in hired help, alluding to the cabinet positions including: Minister of Marine and Fisheries scale of the estate and the financial position of its early (1888) under Sir John A Macdonald; Minister of Justice owners. (1894); and Solicitor General (1896) during his father’s short

CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES CATEGORY OF PROPERTY 1 Accessory Building Private

ARCHITECT OR BUILDER ASSOCIATED DATES Name Type Type From Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper Owner Construction Unknown / circa 1897 - 1898 Unknown – (presumed) JG Tiarks Architect

FORMAL RECOGNITION Type Bylaw Date File Heritage Register Bylaw HRA00008 Owner Response Consent AUTHOR Donald Luxton & Associates

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