Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Bayer House
Peggy's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1823
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Notice of registration date
- 8 January 1993
- Civic address
- 27 Church Road
- Community
- Peggy's Cove
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.49451, -63.91718
- File number
- Prov_file_163
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
3 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 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 is one of the oldest houses in Peggy's Cove and because of the sensitive and authentic restoration carried out by the owners.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Bayer House include its typical regional domestic architecture of
the 18th and early 19th centuries, specifically its:
-One- and one-half storey wood framed structure;
-Gable roof with central chimney;
-Wooden shingled cladding;
-2 over 2 hung windows;
-Central entrance along a five-bay façade;
-Location atop the outermost granite banks at the Cove’s entry.
Nearby in the register
- Manuel Fish Shed & Storefish shedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.