ASSIZE COURTS

ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1388488
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: ASSIZE COURTS
Statutory Address:: ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1388488
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: ASSIZE COURTS
Statutory Address 1:: ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: Lincoln (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 97432 71900

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NW CASTLE HILL 1941-1/8/64 Assize Courts 08/10/53

GV II*

Assize courts. 1823. By Sir Robert Smirke. South entrance porch early C20. Ashlar with slate roofs and 4 coped ashlar side wall stacks. Crenellated Gothick style. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, eaves bands, parapets, crenellated octagonal corner turrets. 2 storeys, 9 bays. Pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds. Projecting centre, 3 bays, has a central four-centred arched doorway with multiple flanking shafts, and above, three 2-light windows. Above them, in the parapet, the Royal arms. On either side, an arcaded passage, 5 bays, ending in a square pavilion with a single lancet. In each passage, five 2-light windows, and at each end, a door with a lamp bracket above it. Above, on either side, 3 smaller lancets. North and south ends have buttresses and 5 single lancets. South end has a hipped single storey porch, L-plan. Rear elevation has 2 wings, 3 bays, roofed parallel to the main range, and flanking a lower centre. All have parapets. The inner gables of the wings have each 3 lancets with latticed iron glazing bars. INTERIOR: entrance has 3 chamfered pointed arched openings to the central stairway. The outer arches have glazed screens. Both courtrooms have stepped stone floors, Gothick friezes with blind arcading and shafts above, and cross beamed ceilings with dogtooth decoration. Criminal Court (No.1) has a moulded cornice with angel corbels. Civil Court (No.2) has corbels and frieze only above the judge's seat. Both courts have arcaded panelled enclosures for the magistrates and ogee canopies over the judges' seats. Above, panelled galleries with C20 octagonal piers. C20 panelled wooden fittings and seats. No.1 Court has the C19 dock. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 506).

Listing NGR: SK9743271900

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Legacy System number:: 485933
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 506

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.