Notice of application to repeal designation at 3175 Lakeshore Road West

The Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O.1990, c. O.18 as amended, Section 32, provides that an owner of property designated under the Ontario Heritage Act may apply to Oakville Town Council to repeal the by-law or part thereof designating the property.

Take notice that the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Oakville has received an Application, at the initiation of the owner, to repeal By-law 2024-093 which designates the following property under the Ontario Heritage Act:

The Cudmore House
3175 Lakeshore Road West 
Oakville, ON
Part of Lot 32, Concession 4 Trafalgar SDS, designated as Parts 2 and 3 on Plan 20R-12966, Oakville 

PIN 24754-0261

By-law 2024-093 Schedule B sets out the following:

Statement of cultural heritage value and attributes

Description of property

The property at 3175 Lakeshore Road West is on an irregular-shaped parcel located on the north side of Lakeshore Road West, between Chalmers Street and Strathcona Avenue near the historic Village of Bronte. The property contains a circa 1920 two-and-a-half-storey brick house.

Statement of cultural heritage value or interest 

Design and physical value

The subject house has design and physical value as a representative example of the Dutch Colonial Revival architectural style popular in Ontario in the early to mid-20th century, with its own unique elements influenced by Craftsman design. The building was constructed by 1920 with characteristics of a Dutch Colonial Revival design such as a symmetrical façade with a side-gabled gambrel roof with shed dormers, a brick first and second storey, and matching end-wall chimneys on the gable sides. The dormers have wooden siding with wooden fascia. The building’s upper storey has a stucco and false half-timbering effect on both end walls, which was a common Craftsman feature. It has symmetrical front facade, and a centered door with covered porch supported by six columns arranged in groups of three on the first storey that are also used on the second-storey porch as well to create the illusion of long singular columns. The fenestration of the home uses multi-pane divided light wood windows in varying configurations around the elevations. 

Historical and associative value

The subject property has cultural heritage value for its direct associations with the Cudmore family, a significant family in the Bronte area, and specifically William Henry Cudmore (1867-1944), who built the house. He and his family farmed the land and started the Cudmore Market, later the Cudmore Garden Centre, which operated for nearly a century. They were prominent and active community members and business owners in Bronte Village. The house has remained in the Cudmore family for over a century.  

Contextual value

The subject property has cultural heritage value because it is physically, functionally, and historically linked to its surroundings and some of the area’s earliest settlers. The Sovereign family owned the land and established one of the area’s earliest cemeteries and schools nearby. The land was divided over time, but for many years, the Austin and Cudmore families generally kept the lot the same size and continued to farm it.  The property is linked to both the Lakeshore Road built in 1915 and the Old Lake Road, the historic thoroughfare, to two centuries of produce farming on the lot and in the surrounding farmland, and the history of roadside produce markets in Trafalgar Township. It is a physical reminder of the long-standing farming history in the area, and as one of the earlier buildings in the neighbourhood, is connected to the origins of the Village of Bronte and its subsequent growth.  

Description of heritage attributes 

Key heritage attributes of the property at 3175 Lakeshore Road West that exemplify its cultural heritage value, as they relate to the two-and-a-half-storey structure, include its:

• Symmetrical massing and form of the building, with side gambrel roof with cornice returns;
• Three shed dormers on the south elevation and two on the north elevation;  
• Red metal gambrel roof; 
• Two end-wall buff brick chimneys; 
• Buff brick cladding with stucco and half timbering in the side wall gables;
• Covered two-storey porch with two sets of six columns in groupings of three set into buff brick piers on the first storey and wood shingle clad wall on the second storey;
• Front entrance, including wood door and sidelights;
• Second storey porch entrance, including door and flanking four pane windows; and
• Fenestration with multipaned sash windows, brick voussoirs and cement sills. 

Further information regarding this Application is available from the Town of Oakville by contacting Kristen McLaughlin, Heritage Planner, at 905-845-6601, ext. 3908 (TTY 905-338-4200), or by email at kristen.mclaughlin@oakville.ca. 

In accordance with the Ontario Heritage Act, s. 32(4), any person may, within 30 days after the date of this Notice, serve on the Oakville Town Clerk a Notice of Objection in writing, setting out the reasons for the objection and all relevant facts.

Any Notice(s) of Objection together with the Application to Repeal will then be considered by the Heritage Oakville Advisory Committee and Town Council in their deliberations on the matter. 

The Application to Repeal Designation By-law 2024-093 and any Objections thereto are to be considered by the Heritage Oakville Advisory Committee meeting at 9:30 a.m. on July 28, 2026, and thereafter at the Town Council Meeting at 6:30 a.m. on August 10, 2026

Notice of Objections must be filed with the Oakville Town Clerk by July 3, 2026. Such Notices may be sent by email to townclerk@oakville.ca or by mail at Oakville Town Hall, Clerk's Department, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 0H3.

Notice Issued by The Town of Oakville at Oakville Ontario on June 3, 2026.