Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Girvan Bank-Runciman House
Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1817
- Decade built
- 1810-1819
- Architect/designer
- Charles Bullfinch
- Notice of registration date
- 17 June 1991
- Civic address
- 478 St. George Street
- Community
- Annapolis Royal
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.74168, -65.51206
- File number
- Prov_file_139
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
it is an exquisite example of Regency architecture, which is extremely rare in Nova Scotia, and because of its siting in a planned rural landscape setting, making it one of the loveliest older residences in the Province.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Girvan Bank – Runciman House relate to is Regency style architecture and include:
- square plan;
- hipped roof;
- two massive chimneys;
- central front double door with side lights and transom with mullion;
- one-and-a-half stories;
- yellow clapboard cladding;
- two two-and-a-half storey segmental bays which connect to the roof in a vault each with one large window on the first floor and smaller windows on second storey under eaves;
- wood shingle roof;
- bellcast eaves line flared to the horizontal alignment of roof;
- window opening surrounded by moulded trip with slipsills;
- double-hung six-over-six windows on main floor
- Classically influenced covered porch;
- Gothic window in second storey over main entrance;
- belt course at foundation;
- gable with no overhang in rear;
- location set back from street among mature trees and well landscaped lot;
- path leading from street to front entrance.
Nearby in the register
- Queen Anne Inninnunder 1 mi
- deGannes-Cosby Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Hillsdale Houseinnunder 1 mi
- Annapolis County Court Housepublicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.