Barriefield Heritage Conservation District

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Character defining elements that contribute to the heritage value of the Barriefield Heritage Conservation District include its:

- street names recognizing the War of 1812 and British military officers

- proximity to the site of the former Kingston Naval Dockyard and Fort Henry

- archaeological resources

- cohesiveness of the overall use, scale, siting and building materials in the village

- constraining village boundaries of the Military Reserve and river

- low-density residential scale of most properties, continuous throughout the history

- predominance of 19th and early 20th century buildings, showing evidence of change over time

- predominance of one-and-a-half storey buildings typifying the overall form of the District

- minimal setback of most buildings

- predominance of local limestone and frame construction, with only four 19th century brick buildings

- central front gables generally found as original construction on the post-1850 stone houses, and as a later addition in the roofs of some pre-1850 houses

- use of squared rubble in the stone buildings, either coursed, un-coursed or broken-coursed

- predominance of clapboard or cove siding on frame houses

- side gable, centre hall plan and symmetrical three bay façade of most smaller houses, with some exceptions featuring off centre entranceways

- five bay façades of the larger two storey dwellings

- end gable, side hall plan with off centre doors on the late 19th century frame houses

- brick or stone chimneys typically located at either end of the roof ridges

- typically vertical rectangular window openings, usually symmetrically arranged on each elevation with untrimmed openings and sills of wood or cut stone, headed with voussoirs on the stone houses

- surviving double hung sashes of most original windows

- round arched windows in most central front gables

- main entrances typically located on the long wall of the end gabled stone houses

- rubble foundation walls typically found on the frame houses

- plain entranceways—some with transoms—of the frame houses

- minimal exterior detailing of the earlier frame houses

- one-storey open porches running the full-width of the façades of many houses

- its setting on a hillside rising from the riverbank

- viewscapes from the village towards the Cataraqui and St. Lawrence rivers, Fort Henry and downtown Kingston

- grassy open space on the north, east and south sides of the District

- street geometry, laid out in a grid following the 1814 townsite plan and forming rectangular lots

- more intensive settlement pattern of the core of the village and along the two historical main roads

- surviving historic landscape features, such as stone survey markers, dry stone walls, abandoned rights of way–now used as public pathways, hillside streets, lilac hedgerows and mature black locusts

- mature black willows, overhanging the water and surrounded by tall wetland grasses along the river's edge

- landmark of St. Mark's Church (built 1844), the most prominent building in the District, highly visible from a distance.

- landscaped setting, including decorative stone gate posts and dry stone walls marking the entrance and grove of walnut trees at the road which form a distinctive northern gateway to the District