GARMSTON HOUSE

GARMSTON HOUSE, 262 AND 262A, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388579
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: GARMSTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GARMSTON HOUSE, 262 AND 262A, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388579
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: GARMSTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GARMSTON HOUSE, 262 AND 262A, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GARMSTON HOUSE, 262 AND 262A, 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 97572 71472

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771SE HIGH STREET 1941-1/12/158 (West side) 15/08/73 Nos.262 AND 262A Garmston House

II

House, now a shop with offices above. Late C17, incorporating part of a late C12 building. Refronted and extended c1772, converted to a theatre and cinema c1911, restored and reconverted 1991. Coursed rubble and brick, with stucco front and slate roofs with 2 side wall stacks. EXTERIOR: chamfered quoins, projecting pedimented centre, modillion cornice, parapet with balustrade panels. 2 storeys; 3 window range with renewed glazing. Full width wooden shopfront, 1991, in a pastiche C19 style, with central panelled double door and fanlight flanked by turned double columns. On either side, a segment arched shop window flanked on the outer side by a single column. Above, a central round arched window with Ionic flanking pilasters with entablatures, moulded head and keystone. On either side, a Venetian window of similar design, with corbelled sill. INTERIOR is known to contain in the north wall a late C12 twinned recess with shallow pointed arches and joggled voussoirs. Fragments remain of a C17 roof, altered c1765. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 520; Jones SR: Lincoln Civic Trust Annual Report 1985 & 1991).

Listing NGR: SK9757271472

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Legacy System number:: 486024
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 520
Other
Jones, SR , Annual Report, (1985)
Jones, SR , Annual Report, 1991,

Legal

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