Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Abraham Lent House
Tusket, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1787
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Cultural association
- Loyalist, Dutch
- Notice of registration date
- 4 January 1996
- Civic address
- 61 Horatio Wood Road
- Community
- Tusket
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.84800, -65.97828
- File number
- Prov_file_199
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its historical associations with the Lent family, New York Loyalists of Dutch descent; its status as the oldest building in Tusket; and its role as a physical landmark, sited at, "the Narrows," of the Tusket River.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the entire Abraham Lent House site:
- location of the house on the top of a slope at the point of land at the narrowest point on the Tusket River called The Narrows;
- form and massing;
- entire structure clad in both clapboard and shingle cladding.
Character-defining elements of the original and historic section of the Abraham Lent House include:
- two-and-one-half storey, gable roof wood structure;
- symmetrical three bay façade, with an off-center doorway;
- Dutch style front door with transom;
- two small windows found on both gable ends at the attic level;
- chimney foundation with slate used in the cantilever support for the ground floor hearths.
Nearby in the register
- Peter Lent Hatfield Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Tusket Courthousepublicunder 1 mi
- St. Stephen's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.