Mallard Cottage National Historic Site of Canada
2 Barrows Road, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, A1A, Canada
Formally Recognized:
1983/11/18
Other Name(s)
n/a
Links and documents
Construction Date(s)
1820/01/01 to 1840/01/01
Listed on the Canadian Register:
2006/01/17
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place
Mallard Cottage is a picturesque one-and-a-half storey wood-frame house set on a small lot near the road in the hamlet of Quidi Vidi, a suburb of St. John's Newfoundland. The designation refers to the house on its legal lot at the time of designation (1983).
Heritage Value
Mallard Cottage was designated a national historic site of Canada because, with its hipped roof and central chimney, it is typical of the vernacular housing built by immigrants from southeastern Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The heritage value of this site resides in the materials as well as the elements of vernacular design and craftsmanship deriving from Irish-Newfoundland vernacular building traditions. The Mallards, a family of Irish origin, lived in the house for over a hundred years.
Source: Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Minute, Fall 1983.
Character-Defining Elements
Elements key to the heritage value of this site include:
- its rectangular massing under a low-hipped roof with rear linhay (lean-to),
- its small scale,
- its wood construction and clapboard finish,
- it's classically inspired five-bay facade with multi-pane, double-hung windows on ground level and smaller multi-pane windows above,
- its interior plan of two rooms on the ground floor on either side of a massive central hearth and sleeping rooms above,
- surviving original materials and craftsmanship including beaded clapboard.
Recognition
Jurisdiction
Federal
Recognition Authority
Government of Canada
Recognition Statute
Historic Sites and Monuments Act
Recognition Type
National Historic Site of Canada
Recognition Date
1983/11/18
Historical Information
Significant Date(s)
1820/01/01 to 1840/01/01
Theme - Category and Type
- Expressing Intellectual and Cultural Life
- Architecture and Design
Function - Category and Type
Current
- Leisure
- Museum
Historic
- Residence
- Single Dwelling
Architect / Designer
n/a
Builder
n/a
Additional Information
Location of Supporting Documentation
National Historic Sites Directorate, Canadian Inventory of Historic Building Documentation Centre, 5th Floor, Room 525, 25 Eddy Street, Hull, Quebec.
Cross-Reference to Collection
Fed/Prov/Terr Identifier
233
Status
Published
Related Places
n/a