Kamloops Heritage Register - City of Kamloops

CITY OF KAMLOOPS HERITAGE REGISTER 2007-2008
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Marlatt Residence include its:
- picturesque setting on a large lot on St. Paul Street West, set back far from the street
- location within the historic West End neighbourhood
- residential form, scale and massing as expressed by its one and one-half storey height and
steeply pitched cross-gabled roof with extension from the gable to garden gate, and projecting
front entrance porch with shed roof
- construction materials including wood-frame structure, heavy timber posts, cedar shingle roof,
and masonry elements such as a pressed red brick foundation and front entrance stairs
- elements of the English Arts and Crafts style such as half-timbering in the gable ends,
roughcast stucco and internal red-brick chimney with corbelling and chimney pots
- other exterior details including bargeboards with expressed bracket ends, built-in flower boxes
and dentils
- windows such as its rectangular-leaded glass wooden-sash casement windows in double and
triple assembly, double-hung wooden-sash windows, and multi-paned casement windows in the
gable peaks
- original oak front door with bevelled circular glass window
- associated landscape features such as its cobble stone retaining wall at the front, grassed yard,
mature perimeter plantings including lilac and holly, and mature coniferous and deciduous trees
Donald Luxton & Associates Inc.: 2008
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