The oldest walls in the county
Mount Pleasant settled in the early 1800s, and it shows in the best way: Greek Revival and Regency-era homes along Mount Pleasant Road, century farmhouses on the edges, and very little modern infill to dilute it. Several properties carry individual heritage designations. This is the kind of stock where a "simple bathroom reno" opens a wall onto hand-hewn timber and a rubble foundation, and the contractor's reaction to that moment is everything.
What pre-Confederation renovation actually involves
- Rubble and fieldstone foundations: drainage, parging and honest structural assessment before any basement ambitions
- Timber frames and early masonry that demand sympathetic methods, not sawzall archaeology
- Heritage permits from the County of Brant before exterior alterations on designated properties
- Named contingencies in the contract, because 200-year-old houses keep secrets; the pricing mechanism is in how mid-job changes get priced honestly
"Mount Pleasant houses have outlived every contractor who ever touched them, and the bad ones left their marks: cut joists, buried knob-and-tube, concrete slapped on stone. My job is to be the renovation the next century doesn't have to apologize for."
Mitch Fraser, owner, Ontario Contracting Co.
Permits and process
Mount Pleasant is County of Brant: Cloudpermit for building permits (county guide), plus the heritage layer where designation applies. The craft side of the work follows the old-house sequence we follow, and the deep expertise lives on the heritage renovation page.