Bay and gable houses are an integral part of Toronto's Victorian, residential vernacular landscape. There are probably hundreds or thousands of houses like these in Toronto's older inner city, encompassing several variations (detached, semi-detached and row-homes). Anyway, I won't say much more, since the following wikipedia article sums up the style quite nicely:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay-and-gable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay-and-gable)
It would be wonderful if someone took on the daunting task of BATing several variations of these houses as growable residential lots. You could have run-down rowhomes with modest little yards for R$ neighbourhoods and beautifully intact houses with manicured lawns for higher wealth areas. Other variations include colour of the bargeboards, window trimming and/or rooftiles, style of porch, and left/right-handed versions. Overall, the variety of low-density housing in the game still leaves much to be desired, so hopefully this could help to diversify the housing stock.
Here are a few pictures (apologies if some of them are low-quality - I nabbed many of them from online real estate listings):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Findividual.utoronto.ca%2Fnegativesleep%2Fbaygable%2Fbaygable1.jpg&hash=fd9f4aaf46a5a45a289cff809e0a46fdbd8c21af)
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Findividual.utoronto.ca%2Fnegativesleep%2Fbaygable%2Fbaygable2.jpg&hash=b5519ef27bb7e9ef2db6b1c79ead71041ff6c5d2)
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Findividual.utoronto.ca%2Fnegativesleep%2Fbaygable%2Fbaygable3.jpg&hash=8adaaea5f69432928b5806d0d93670eabb9a6bf8)
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Findividual.utoronto.ca%2Fnegativesleep%2Fbaygable%2Fbaygable4.jpg&hash=0dc2dc1dcac14c5729456f7bf6e65691c23664fd)
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Findividual.utoronto.ca%2Fnegativesleep%2Fbaygable%2Fbaygable5.jpg&hash=9edff05c8b028a48b4ef36a6aa5bf3f0c4aec227)
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Findividual.utoronto.ca%2Fnegativesleep%2Fbaygable%2Fbaygable6.jpg&hash=9859b36bd9751bca5ae423f265dc5baea714b057)
If someone wants to take this project on and needs higher quality images and various angles, I can snap some shots of a few homes in my neighbourhood this week, weather permitting. Thanks in advance!