North Hills Museum

Reason for registration

original location in Granville Ferry; buidling form and massing in the Neo-classical style; rubble stone and mortar foundation; wooden shingles covering the exterior walls and roof; gable roof with no overhang; brick chimneys on both ends of the roof; symmetrical placement of the door in the centre of the front of the house, flanked by two windows on both sides of the door; twelve-over-twelve windows on the second floor of the main house, and on additions to the main house and exposed beam construction inside the house, in parts of both the first and second floor of the main house.

Character-defining elements

Character-defining elements of the farmhouse of the North Hills Museum include:

- original location in Granville Ferry overlooking the Annapolis Basin;
- all remaining original wooden framing;
- all elements of its Neo-classical style including symmetrical front façade, central door, gable roof with no overhang, and chimney on each end;
- rubble stone and mortar foundation;
- wood shingle cladding and roof;
- twelve-over-twelve wooden windows on main floor;
- eight-over-eight windows on second floor and additions;
- exposed beam construction;
- absence of decoration.
- original chimmey on west end;
- original chimney base on west end.

Character-defining elements of outbuildings:

- wood shingle cladding and roofs;
- gable roofs;
- location to the rear of farmhouse.