Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Sargent-Homer-Nodwell House
Barrington West, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1811
- Decade built
- 1810-1819
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 7 March 1994
- Civic address
- 2380 Highway 3
- Community
- Barrington West
- County
- Shelburne
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.56773, -65.57919
- File number
- Prov_file_180
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 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 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its close historical association, from its erection c. 1810, with the Sargent and Homer families, Loyalists from Massachusetts who settled in Barrington and it is a rare example of a stone residence of a merchant used for both living and business purposes.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of the Sargent-Homer-Nodwell House include:
- two-and-a-half storey structure built into a hillside with the grade falling a full storey from back to front;
- ground floor constructed of cut granite;
- wood framing in upper levels;
- long, one storey wing attached to the west, of wood frame construction;
- main structure clad with wood shingles;
- wing clad with clapboard;
- main entrance has deep splay;
- 6/6 windows;
- original cornerboard and cornice detailing.
Nearby in the register
- Old Meeting House (Barrington)museumunder 1 mi
- MacMullen Oil Skin Factoryresidenceunder 1 mi
- Benjamin K. Doane Houseresidence2 mi
- Crowell-Smith Houseresidence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.