Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Tusket Courthouse
Tusket, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1805
- Decade built
- 1800-1809
- Notice of registration date
- 24 November 1986
- Civic address
- 8168 Highway 3
- Community
- Tusket
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.85490, -65.97453
- File number
- Prov_file_55
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
is the oldest extant court house in Canada having been constructed during 1804-1805.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Tusket Court House that relate to its Greek Revival architecture include:
- gable end facing road;
- main entrance in centre of gable end with Tuscan-style pilasters on either side;
- fan light over main entrance;
- Tuscan-style pilasters at corners;
- triangular pediment over fan light;
- eave returns;
- dentils;
- decorative cornerboards.
General character-defining elements of the Tusket Court House include:
- constructed of local building materials;
- form and massing;
- wooden clapboard cladding;
- gable roof;
- granite foundations;
- location in centre of Tusket;
- wooden cupola;
- double hung sash windows;
- medium pitched roof;
- twelve-over-twelve window over main entrance;
- diamond shaped window in centre of gable on front elevation;
- five symmetrically placed twelve-over-twelve windows on second storey of south and north elevations;
- two twelve-over-twelve windows on ground level of south and north elevations and two smaller windows placed slightly higher than others;
- two twelve-over-twelve window in rear gable end.
Nearby in the register
- Peter Lent Hatfield Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Abraham Lent Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- St. Stephen's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.