City of St. John's Heritage Building

Mallard Cottage Municipal Heritage Building

Mallard Cottage Municipal Heritage Building

Photo: Deborah O'Rielly/ HFNL 2007

Reconnaissance
2006
Par
Ville de St. John's

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Description

Mallard Cottage is a picturesque one-and-a-half storey wood-frame house set on a small lot near the road in the village of Quidi Vidi, within the greater municipality of St. John’s Newfoundland. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.

Valeur patrimoniale

Mallard Cottage was designated 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.

SourceCity of St. John's, meeting held 2006/04/25

Éléments caractéristiques

All those features reflective of its age and traditional vernacular design, including:

-rectangular massing under a low-hipped roof with rear linhay (lean-to);

-small scale;

-wood construction and beaded clapboard finish;

-five-bay facade with multi-pane, double-hung windows on ground level and smaller multi-pane windows above; and,

-interior plan of two rooms on the ground floor on either side of a massive central hearth and sleeping rooms above.

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Emplacement

47.58159° N, 52.67835° W

Itinéraire (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

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