Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
The Gatehouse
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Notice of registration date
- 2 July 2026
- Civic address
- 532 Kings Road
- Community
- Sydney
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.12174, -60.20412
- File number
- Prov_file_333
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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
its heritage value based on its age, architecture, and its character-defining elements; which are its: one-and-one-half storey construction; steeply pitched gable roof; cross-gable plan; asymmetrical design; decorative fieldstone chimney with round arch window; wooden detailing including gingerbread bargeboard trim at the eaves; decorative half-timbering applied to each façade to define second storey; faux-medieval leaded windows; on its north-east facing façade, a bay window on the main level and boxed bay window on the second level and wooden front door with stained glass insert.
Nearby in the register
- St. Andrew's United Churchchurch1 mi
- Kennedy Houseresidence1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurch1 mi
- St. Patrick's Churchmuseum1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.