Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Sangster Inn
Upper Falmouth, West Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1790
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Notice of registration date
- 16 September 1991
- Civic address
- 444 Sangster Bridge Road
- Community
- Upper Falmouth
- County
- West Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.95779, -64.20027
- File number
- Prov_file_148
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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
it has remained in the continuous possession of the descendants of John Sangster and because of its use as a well known inn in the first part of the 19th century on the Old Post Road from Halifax to Annapolis Royal.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Sangster Inn include:
- two-and-a-half storey, wood frame structure;
- gable roof;
- large central chimney;
- five bay front elevation;
- entrance porch with sidelights and fanlight;
- decorative corner-board detailing, with finely moulded capitals;
- wood frame barn with gable roof and two full length lean-to extensions;
- position overlooking the river.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.