The Nunnery
THE NUNNERY, LINCOLN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064044
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Nunnery
- Statutory Address:
- THE NUNNERY, LINCOLN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064044
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Nunnery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NUNNERY, LINCOLN LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE NUNNERY, LINCOLN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- West Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sixhills
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 17001 87035
Details
TF 18 NE SIXHILLS LINCOLN LANE
3/31 The Nunnery
II
Wrongly shown as Lincoln Lane Farm on OS map. House. C15, C17 flooring in of open hall, C18 and C20 alterations. Timber frame with casing in of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and some brick dressings, rendering to first floor. Pantile roof having 2 brick ridge stacks. 3 unit plan. 2 storey with garret, irregular 6 bay front having plinth with off centre C20 door with to right a glazing bar sliding sash and to left a 3 light, a single light and 2 double C20 casement windows. To first floor, above the door, is a small glazing bar sliding sash with to right a single larger window and to left 2 similar sashes. The front wall has some moulded stones re-used in the facade including some C13 dogtooth moulding. An exposed length of timber may be an original midrail. There is evidence of considerable patching of the front wall. At the rear a bay post is visible at first floor level. Interior has 3 inglenook fireplaces, one with a moulded bressummer. The principal girders in the hall and parlour are deeply moulded with attenuated triangular stops; the door frame between the rooms has similar stops and moulding. In the original kitchen is a C18 panelled cupboard with semi-circular head and key block. On the first floor several bay posts are visible in the side walls with mortices and peg holes for vanished braces. The staircase has C17 splat balusters of serpentine form. The oak roof is of double butt purlin construction. The medieval roof was originally of 9 bays, but the 3 bays over the kitchen chamber are C18 replacements. The middle bays over the hall have heavy smoke blackening attesting the former existence of an open hall. The house is near the site of the Gilbertine monastery of Sixhills.
Listing NGR: TF1700187035
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 197156
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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