The Chains
THE CHAINS, 53, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319729
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Chains
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHAINS, 53, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319729
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Chains
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHAINS, 53, WEST STREET
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 CHAINS, 53, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 92696 18628
Details
SE 9218-9318 WINTERTON WEST STREET (south side) 9/73 No 53 (The Chains)
GV II
House. Late C18-early C19 with earlier origins, by William Fowler of Winterton. C20 restorations. Coursed limestone rubble and brick, rendered. Slate roof to main section; pantiles to lower section to left. Gothick style. L-shaped on plan, with 2 projecting bays to front and studio/workshop range to rear. Main front comprises 2-storey single-bay section flanked by projecting 3-storey bays jettied-out at first floor level. Single storey and attic range to left. Entrance beneath jettied bay on left. Part-glazed panelled door in architrave with narrow window to left flanked by 1984 temporary brick piers supporting jetty. Jettied bay to right has central projecting support with Tudor-arched recess containing louvred panel, flanked by plastered vaulting supported on plain moulded corbels. Similar vaulting to left bay removed at time of re-survey. Central section has 16-pane sash with shutters beneath pediment and 3-light first floor sliding sash beneath moulded and deeply-coved eaves cornice. Jettied bays have 3-light sliding sashes with glazing bars to each floor. Pitched roof to main central section, hipped to jettied bays. Lateral stacks to jettied bays, end stacks. Lower section to left: single casement, gabled dormer, axial stack. Interior: beamed ceilings; good carved wood Gothick chimneypiece by W. Fowler. William Fowler, 1761-1832, architect, builder and engraver, is chiefly famous for his antiquarian and architectural engravings, for which he received widespread patronage from scholars, gentry and royalty. His son Joseph, 1791-1882, also an architect and builder, lived here after his marriage in 1828. J.T. Fowler, The Correspondence of William Fowler, 1907. N. Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 426.
Listing NGR: SE9269318626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442653
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 426
Fowler, J T, The Correspondence of William Fowler of Winterton, (1907)
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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