FORMER BLUECOAT SCHOOL

FORMER BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388498
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: FORMER BLUECOAT SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FORMER BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388498
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: FORMER BLUECOAT SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE

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:: FORMER BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE

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 97684 71734

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE 1941-1/9/74 (North side) 01/09/68 Former Bluecoat School

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Formerly known as: Leeke School CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE. Also known as: Lincolnshire College of Art and Design CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE. Former Bluecoat school, later Lincolnshire College of Art & Design, now part of DeMontfort University. 1784. By William Lumby. East wing c1790. Mid C19 additions. Converted c1975. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof with 2 brick stacks. EXTERIOR: string course, eaves cornice, coped brick parapet. South side has to left a symmetrical block, 3 storeys, 5 bays, with square ground floor windows set in a blind arcade with round arched stone heads. Central Doric doorcase with pediment, 6-panel door and overlight, flanked by 2 glazing bar sashes. Above, on each floor, 6 similar sashes, that above the door with moulded surround and cornice. To right, a recessed single bay with a glazing bar sash set in a former doorway, with a bronze plaque in the tympanum inscribed "Founded by Richard Smith MD June 1st 1612". Above, a sash on each floor. Higher east wing has 2 glazing bar sashes and a door c1900. Above, a central Venetian window with keystone. Above again, a glazing bar fixed light with moulded surround. To right again, a C19 addition, 2 storeys. INTERIOR has a C19 cantilevered stone staircase with cast-iron balustrade. The Bluecoat School was a charity school for boys, and closed in 1883. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 519; Curl JS: The Victorian Facade (W Watkins & Son, Architects, Lincoln): Lincoln: 1990-: 41-42).

Listing NGR: SK9768471734

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Legacy System number:: 485943
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curl, J S , The Victorian Facade (W Watkins & Son, Architect, Lincoln), (1990), 41-42
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 519

Legal

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