Greenstone House and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railing
GREENSTONE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILING, 4, GREESTONE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388549
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Greenstone House and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railing
- Statutory Address:
- GREENSTONE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILING, 4, GREESTONE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388549
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Greenstone House and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railing
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENSTONE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILING, 4, GREESTONE PLACE
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:
- GREENSTONE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILING, 4, GREESTONE PLACE
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 97944 71665
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE GREESTONE PLACE
1941-1/9/128 (East side)
08/10/53 No.4
Greestone House and attached
forecourt wall and railing
GV II
House, now a college of Further Education, and attached
forecourt wall and railing. Early C17 and late C18,
incorporating part of a late C13 house. Additions and
alterations c1860. Coursed and squared rubble with stone
dressings and plain tile roofs with 3 side wall and 2 gable
stacks. Single coped gable with kneelers.
2 storeys plus attics, 5 x 4 bays. L-plan.
Main south front has a Doric doorcase with pediment and
overlight, flanked to left by three 12-pane sashes and to
right by a C19 triple sash. Above, four 12-pane sashes to
left, and a further sash to right. Below it, between floors, a
triple sash. The single sashes have keystones, the triple
sashes wooden lintels.
West front has four 12-pane sashes on each floor and above, 4
segment headed dormers.
South gable has irregular C19 fenestration.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Attached forecourt wall, brick with ashlar coping, is topped
with C18 wrought-iron spearhead railing with a segment headed
gateway and a grotesque mask in the overthrow. The railing is
said to have come from the Church of St Peter at Arches,
dismantled c1936.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 24-27).
Listing NGR: SK9794471665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485994
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 491
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (2nd fascicule), (1987), 24-27
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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