Elephant Inn

28 AND 29, EASTGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1388531
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1953
Statutory Address:
28 AND 29, EASTGATE
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Official list entry

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

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

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
485976
Legacy System:
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Sources

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

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