268, HIGH STREET

268, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1388582
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1953
Statutory Address:
268, HIGH STREET
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Date:
2004-10-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1388582
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1999
Statutory Address 1:
268, HIGH STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
268, 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 97600 71482

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771SE HIGH STREET
1941-1/12/162 (East side)
08/10/53 No.268
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(East side)
No.268
Halifax Building society)

GV II*

Formerly known as: The Cardinal's Hatte HIGH STREET.
Public house, now offices. Late C15, restored 1952. Close
studded timber framing with dressed stone and C20 brick
underbuild, rendered nogging, plain tile and pantile roofs.
2 jettied floors, the upper one with a billeted bressumer,
moulded angle shafts, diagonal braces and coved eaves. High
Street front has a central recessed glazed door flanked by
single glazing bar windows, all C20. Above, a continuous range
of cusped leaded lights and a central square oriel window, 4
lights. Above again, 2 projecting leaded windows, 4 lights,
and a replica wrought-iron sign bracket.
South side, to Grantham Street, has a framed gable to the left
with a central leaded casement on each floor. To the right, a
stone rear wing, 3 bays, with C19 and C20 fenestration and a
C19 doorcase to the right.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This building was formerly the Cardinal's Hat Inn, and had a
courtyard layout.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 519-520).



Listing NGR: SK9760071482

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486027
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 519-520

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