Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Jonathan Shearman House (formerly Eaton House)
Upper Canard, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1773
- Decade built
- 1770-1779
- Notice of registration date
- 11 July 2001
- Civic address
- 1423 Highway 341
- Community
- Upper Canard
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.12707, -64.46416
- File number
- Prov_file_251
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 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 Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (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
this building is a rare example of an 18th century, timber frame, gambrel roofed residence.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Jonathan Shearman House include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood construction;
- one-and-a-half storey rear ell;
- gambrel roofed main house;
- gabled-roofed rear ell;
- central front entrance;
- central brick chimney;
- one-storey barn parallel and to the rear of the house.
Nearby in the register
- Canard Burial Groundscemeteryunder 1 mi
- Chipman Corner Cemeterycemetery2 mi
- CarwardenB&B2 mi
- St. John's Anglican Church & Cemeterychurch2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.