268, HIGH STREET
268, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388582
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 268, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 268, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388582
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 268, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 268, HIGH STREET
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486027
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 519-520
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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