Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Yuill Barn
Old Barns, Colchester, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- barn
- Year built
- c.1896
- Decade built
- 1890-1899
- Architect/designer
- Orson Squire Fowler
- Notice of registration date
- 3 December 1985
- Civic address
- 3214 Highway 236
- Community
- Old Barns
- County
- Colchester
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.35400, -63.37298
- File number
- Prov_file_43
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (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 barn is one of only two known octagonal barns in Nova Scotia, built before 1914.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Yuill Barn include:
- octagonal form and wood frame massing;
- vertical metal siding;
- lantern/cupola at its peak;
- location and use as part of a working farm property.