HIGH BRIDGE

HIGH BRIDGE, 207, 209 AND 210, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388574
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: HIGH BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: HIGH BRIDGE, 207, 209 AND 210, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388574
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: HIGH BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGH BRIDGE, 207, 209 AND 210, HIGH STREET

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:: HIGH BRIDGE, 207, 209 AND 210, HIGH STREET

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 97505 71160

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771SE HIGH STREET 1941-1/12/152 Nos.207, 209 AND 210 08/10/53 High Bridge

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Road bridge carrying shops and houses. C12, with C13 and C16 additions, restored and partly reconstructed 1902 by William Watkins of Lincoln. Bridge has an ashlar semicircular arch with chamfered transverse ribs and a single bay with diagonal ribs. West end has imposts and small chamfered slits in the spandrels. East end has a renewed chamfered opening with pierced balustrade and coped piers. The range of shops and houses at the west end, C16, is a careful and thorough reconstruction. Timber framed, the west side partly roughcast, with dressed stone and brick underbuild and plain tile roof. Much of the original close studded framing survives, with renewed rendered nogging. Original angle brackets in the form of angels. 3 storeys plus attics, 2 jetties, 6 bays. East front has to the left a glazing bar shop window and door. To right, 2 doors flanked by single plain windows. The doors have Tudor arched heads. Above, 2 floors, each with six 3-light leaded casements, all projecting like oriels. Above again, 3 gabled dormers with 2-light casements. Rear has a renewed 2 storey underbuild to the left, and above the bridge, a 6-light hooded window flanked by small single light windows. Above, 2 windows flanked by single plain oriels, and to left, a larger window. Above again, exposed timber framing with 5 windows. Attics have 3 dormers similar to those at the front. INTERIOR retains much of the original structure, with renewed nogging and joinery in a matching style. This building is the only surviving example in England of a medieval bridge carrying shops and houses. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No.26. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 523; Curl JS: The Victorian Facade (W Watkins & Son, Architects, Lincoln): Lincoln: 1990-: 43-44).

Listing NGR: SK9750571160

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Legacy System number:: 486019
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curl, J S , The Victorian Facade (W Watkins & Son, Architect, Lincoln), (1990), 43-44
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 523

Legal

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