Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
MacRae-Bittermann House
Middle River, Victoria, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1848-1856
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Cultural association
- Scottish, Gaelic
- Notice of registration date
- 6 December 1983
- Civic address
- 736 West Side Middle River Road
- Community
- Middle River
- County
- Victoria
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.01865, -60.85940
- File number
- Prov_file_22
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the techniques used in the construction of the building, its value as a fine example of vernacular stone construction, and the home's association with the settlement of this area by highland Scottish immigrants.
Character-defining elements
The character-defining elements of the MacRae-Bitterman House include:
- quoins, lintels and doorway encasement made of locally quarried stones;
- facing exterior stones set with grain perpendicular to ground;
- gaps between larger exterior stones filled with layered smaller stones
- exterior walls with an inner and outer layer, filled with rubble and tapered inside and out;
- interior walls built of smaller, irregular rubble with small stone galletting in the jointing;
- hipped roof;
- door on north elevation centrally located, with one rectangle window to either side and directly above it;
- three small windows, the central one being larger than the two side windows;
- one window on second storey on sides;
- interior stairs located in original location.