A lakeside retreat built to last

Barnstone Retreat is a leed Silver certified, reclaimed timber frame cottage, nestled on the eastern shore of Lac St. Sixte on approximate 8 private acres. Barnstone is part of the Clos de Sixte community situated 50 minutes north east of Ottawa in the municipality of Mulgrave and Derry, Quebec. Lac St. Sixte is a beautiful fault-line lake, approx. 3500 m long by 500 m wide and over 130 m deep. Surrounded by stands of old-growth trees and an abundance of flora and fauna.

Construction of Barnstone began in the summer of 2011 and was completed in the autumn of 2013 . The timber frame that supports the cottage was a barn that once housed livestock and hay. The barn was built in the mid-1800's using hand-hewn white ash and elm trees, which were seeded sometime in the 1600's. The frame served its purpose as a barn in the hamlet of Fallowfield, Ontario until it was dismantled in the fall of 2010 and transported to its current location for a second life. Like many quality-built frames it is likely that it will outlive the current shell and serve a third purpose hundreds of years from now.