Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Richmond Hill Farm
Windsor, West Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1820
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Notice of registration date
- 25 July 1991
- Civic address
- 664 College Road
- Community
- Windsor
- County
- West Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.97808, -64.15213
- File number
- Prov_file_145
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (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
the building's association since its construction in the 1820's, through its successive ownership by the Singer, King and Maxner families, with progressive farming in Hants County.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of the Richmond Hill Farm include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood frame structure;
- truncated gable roof;
- stone foundation;
- narrow gable dormer;
- front bay windows;
- eight panel front door, with carpenter lock; - wood cladding;
- position on a hilltop at the end of a well treed lane;
- location surrounded by agricultural land, orchards and a working farm..
Nearby in the register
- Convocation Hallschoolunder 1 mi
- Clifton Museum Park (Haliburton House)museumunder 1 mi
- Sainte-Famille Cemeterycemeteryunder 1 mi
- Clockmaker's InnB&B1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.