Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Stonehouse (Tissington)
Lyon's Brook, Pictou, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1834
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Builder
- Robert Hogg, John Hogg
- Cultural association
- Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 2 March 1989
- Civic address
- 5405 Scotsburn Road
- Community
- Lyon's Brook
- County
- Pictou
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.66722, -62.79050
- File number
- Prov_file_93
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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 · Outline Map of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1879. (David Rumsey Map Collection, 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)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Queens and Kings, Prince Edward Island (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (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
it is a very rare, largely unaltered example of a two and a half storey house built in the British classical style, and because it remained for 150 years in the possession of the interrelated and well-known Pictou County families of MacKenzies, Hoggs and O'Briens.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Stone House relate to its Georgian style and are its:
-two-and-one-half storey structure
-stone construction
-five-bayed front façade
-steeply pitched gable roof
-centre bay projecting to form an entrance porch with stone portico and cross gable
-palladian window in the centre dormer;
-six-over-six windows;
-Scottish dormers;
-two side wall chimneys;
-rear ell.