Lincoln Prison Entrance Buildings and Walls
LINCOLN PRISON ENTRANCE BUILDINGS AND WALLS, GREETWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388558
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Prison Entrance Buildings and Walls
- Statutory Address:
- LINCOLN PRISON ENTRANCE BUILDINGS AND WALLS, GREETWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388558
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Prison Entrance Buildings and Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- LINCOLN PRISON ENTRANCE BUILDINGS AND WALLS, GREETWELL ROAD
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:
- LINCOLN PRISON ENTRANCE BUILDINGS AND WALLS, GREETWELL ROAD
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 99147 71978
Details
LINCOLN
SK97SE GREETWELL ROAD
1941-1/2/133 (North side)
15/08/73 Lincoln Prison entrance buildings
and walls
(Formerly Listed as:
GREETWELL GATE
(North side)
Gate Lodge, attached Governor's,
Gatekeeper's......Lincoln Prison)
II
Prison gate lodge, and 3 attached staff houses, now officers'
quarters and welfare department, garden and boundary walls.
1869-72, with later alterations. By Frederick Peck of London.
Brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. Crenellated Gothic
Revival style.
EXTERIOR: moulded plinth, first floor band, dentilled eaves
band, crenellated parapets, moulded coped gables. Windows have
mainly lancet lights with transoms. Gate lodge, single storey,
in the form of a barbican, has a chamfered and moulded central
archway with a dummy portcullis, flanked by single octagonal
towers with slits and crosslets. Above, a moulded recess in
the gable with the Royal Arms.
Former Governor's house, to right, 2 and 3 storeys, L-plan,
has a higher square tower, 3 stages, at the south-west corner,
with a moulded arched doorway. Above it, a single lancet, and
above again, a 3-light window. To right, a crenellated canted
bay window with 4 lights. Above it, a 2-light window on each
floor, the upper ones smaller. To left, a set back wing with a
3-light window on each floor. To left again, a single storey
corridor with a barred lancet window flanked by single
crosslets. Former gatekeeper's house, to left of the gate
lodge, 2 storeys, L-plan, has in the return angle a porch with
parapet and moulded pointed arched doorway with hoodmould. To
right, a projecting wing, with a 2-light window on each floor.
To the right, a single storey corridor with a single lancet
flanked by crosslets.
Former Chief Warder's house, to left again, T-plan, has an
off-centre wing with a 2-light window on each floor. To the
right, a set back porch, 2 storeys, with a moulded pointed
doorway and hoodmould, and above it, a single lancet. Set back
left wing has a single lancet on each floor.
The buildings flanking the gate lodge have attached curved
garden walls with moulded stone coping and capped square
piers.
The main boundary wall has a blue brick top section with a
ramped half-round coping. The wall encloses a
parallelogram-shaped area with rounded corners.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 507-508).
Listing NGR: SK9914771978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 507-508
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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