Historic Zoning Commission

Village of Concord HZ: Level III

8-D-14-HZ

Applicant Request

Level III. Construction of new primary building

New one-and-a-half-story Folk Victorian-style farmhouse with twin front gables, a one-story side-gabled wing on each side, integral garage on east side with overhead carriage-style doors, and hipped-roof front and rear porches. Front setback to match that tof the existing east. Brick foundation, fiber cement board siding (without faux wood grain), asphalt shingle main roof, standing seam metal roof on porches, and simulated divided 6/6- light double-hung windows with vertical board shutters (not raised panel as depicted in elevation). The front door will have approx. 2/3s wooden panels in the bottom with a 1/3 light on top. The fanlight over the entry door is to be replaced with a plain rectangular transom. The front porch will be tongue-and-groove (if budget allows), laid perpedicular to the house. Porch posts to be 6x6 square wood (not round tapered as depicted in elevation), and porch balusters to be wooden 2x2 square on the front and back of the house.

Site Info

1) The illustration depicts a Folk Victorian farmhouse with stylistic features dating from between 1870 and 1920, mixed with Federal/Georgian-era plantation (1790-1820) elements such as 6/6 multi-paned windows/doors and an eliptical fanlight over the front door. Concord Village exhibits mostly Victorian and Craftsman houses from the late 18th to early 19th century. The inventory lists only two traditional Federal/Georgian-era houses (two-story, side-gabled rectangle) from the 1860s and 1880s. The Federal/Georgian-era windows/doors depicted would need to be replaced with Victorian-era configurations in order to be compatible with more typical of area farmhouses.

2) The proposed design appears to meet the Concord Design Guidelines overall for new construction except for the following needs to be considered:
New buildings should be compatible with surrounding architecture, but their design should recognize that they will function as a new building and will be built with new materials. They should not be imitations of buildings of the past; rather, they should respond to the present time. . .

A building should not be visually incompatible or destroy historic relationships within the neighborhood. At the same time, new construction should not imitate a historic style or period of architecture.

New Construcfion:
The styles and details of historic architecture should not be reproduced.

3) The integral garage on the east side will convey the house as a modern house, given that farmhouses from that era had garages or carriage houses in a separate building.