ELEPHANT INN

28 AND 29, EASTGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388531
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: ELEPHANT INN
Statutory Address:: 28 AND 29, EASTGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388531
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:: ELEPHANT INN
Statutory Address 1:: 28 AND 29, EASTGATE
Statutory Address 2:: ELEPHANT INN, 3, PRIORYGATE

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:: 28 AND 29, EASTGATE
Statutory Address:: ELEPHANT INN, 3, PRIORYGATE

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 97901 71896

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE EASTGATE 1941-1/9/111 (South side) 08/10/53 Nos.28 AND 29 (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE (South side) Nos.28 AND 29 The Elephant Inn and adjoining house)

GV II

Includes: No.3 Elephant Inn PRIORYGATE. Former public house (the Elephant Inn), and adjoining house. Now the cathedral Clerk of Works office. 1695 and early C18, altered 1825, late C19 and 1929. Stone, stucco and brick, with plain tile and pantile roofs with 3 brick gable stacks. L-plan. EXTERIOR: former public house, fronting Priorygate, stucco, 2 storeys plus garrets, 2 bays. Rusticated ground floor, first floor band, wooden modillion eaves. Off-centre round headed rusticated doorcase with 6-panel door and fanlight. Over it, a datestone, 1695. To left, a 16-pane sash, and above, two 12-pane sashes. East block, fronting Eastgate, 2 storeys, 3 bays, has to north a central lean-to porch, mid C20, flanked to right by a glazing bar sash. To left, a single storey addition, dated 1929, with parapet. To right, an extruded corner, 2 storeys. Above, 2 segment headed glazing bar sashes. At the rear, a single storey addition, L-plan, with hipped roof. Above, a segment headed 12-pane sash, and above again, a box dormer with a 3-light casement. INTERIOR: No.28 has on the ground floor a late C17 panelled room with moulded cornice, fielded 6-panel door in moulded surround, and an enriched Classical style fireplace with hob grate. No.29 has a late C17 oak dogleg stair, 4 flights, square newels and acorn drops, turned balusters and moulded handrail. Top landing has similar balustrade. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 495; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1984-: 19-22).

LINCOLN

SK9771NE PRIORYGATE 1941-1/9/111 (East side) 08/10/53 No.3 Elephant Inn

GV II

Listing NGR: SK9790171896

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 485976
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (1st fascicule), (1984), 19-22
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 495

Legal

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