Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Bailey House
Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1770
- Decade built
- 1770-1779
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 14 June 1991
- Civic address
- 150 St. George Street
- Community
- Annapolis Royal
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.74674, -65.51845
- File number
- Prov_file_138
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · St. John Co., N.B. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its association with Loyalists who settled in Annapolis Royal and its use as an "aristrocratic" inn in the 19th century.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Bailey House related to its Georgian architecture include:
- low pitched hip roof;
- square floor plan;
- two inset chimneys;
- symmetrical five bay front elevation with central entrance;
- front door with fan light, pediment and pilasters;
- central dormer;
- wood clapboard siding on front and wood shingles on remaining sides;
- six-over-six sash style windows.
Nearby in the register
- Adams Ritchie Housecommercialunder 1 mi
- Sinclair Inncommercialunder 1 mi
- Bread & RosesB&Bunder 1 mi
- St. Luke's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.