Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Lorrain's Inn
Pictou, Pictou, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1825
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Builder
- John Lorrain
- Cultural association
- Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 31 March 1993
- Civic address
- 56 Church Street
- Community
- Pictou
- County
- Pictou
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.67715, -62.71157
- File number
- Prov_file_169
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Sect. No. 2, Caribou, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Outline Map of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1879. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, 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
building was constructed around 1825 by the well known Pictou County stonemason John Lorrain as his private residence, which also served as an inn and early stagecoach house for the first stagecoach service between Halifax and Pictou.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Lorrain’s Inn are:
-two-and-one-half storey sandstone construction;
-truncated gable roof;
-symmetrical front façade;
-projecting entrance porch with several Classical details such as a heavy pediment supported by Doric columns;
-three Scottish dormers in front and one narrow dormer in rear;
-windows in rear with quoins and a bead worked into sill;
-six-over-six windows
-large multi-flue chimney structures in the centre of both end walls;
-location on Church St. in Pictou.
Nearby in the register
- Kilmarnoch Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- The ConsulateB&Bunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.