Heritage Register
Oaklands

2711 Fernwood Road

Built 1913
Heritage-Designated 1991

For: Howard & Lottie Caufield

ARCHITECTURE:

This house is an unusual example of Edwardian Vernacular Arts & Crafts. It is a 1½-storey house with a steeply-pitched, front-gabled roof and gabled dormers on the sides over angled bays. There is a leaded glass piano window on the left side. The centrally located front stairway leads to an inset right corner porch, now enclosed. Three short, stubby Tuscan columns with entasis set on cut granite piers support the low and wide Chalet-style gabled porch roof. All the gables have bracketed overhanging eaves and denticulated bargeboards. The gables are clad in roughcast stucco and half-timbering, the main floor in double-bevelled siding, and the basement is shingled. A shallow gabled extension on the rear echoes the front porch. The front garden wall matches the stonework of the piers.

ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:

1913-50: Norman “Howard” Caufield (1886-1950) and Lottie Evelene (née Knechtel, 1884-1962) came to Victoria from Ontario in 1912. Howard worked in the real estate business and was also involved in mining for 12 years until his death. Lottie left the house shortly afterwards, then moved back to the house again in 1954-55.

OTHER OCCUPANTS:

1951-53: Nora Robinson, the widow of J.A. Robinson.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & IMAGES:

• Map of Victoria Heritage Register Properties

• Oaklands History

• Oaklands Heritage Register


• This Old House, Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods,
Volume Three: Rockland, Burnside, Harris Green,
Hillside-Quadra, North Park & Oaklands