Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Rose Bank Cottage
Musquodoboit Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1848
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Cultural association
- Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1988
- Civic address
- 268 Highway 357
- Community
- Musquodoboit Harbour
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.79686, -63.15851
- File number
- Prov_file_71
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David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Halifax, 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is closely associated with John Anderson, a prominent settler in the Musquodoboit Valley and because of it being so architecturally outstanding among the buildings of the Eastern Shore of the Province.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the New England Cape Code style of Rose Bank Cottage include:
- one-and-one half storey with symmetrical, three-bay front façade;
- sidelights and transom light with original glass;
- steep gabled roof with shallow eaves;
- twin interior chimneys;
- centre-hall plan;
- wood shingle cladding;
- six-over-six, double hung windows.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.