Deloraine Court East and Deloraine Court West
DELORAINE COURT EAST AND DELORAINE COURT WEST, 4, 5 AND 6, JAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388609
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Deloraine Court East and Deloraine Court West
- Statutory Address:
- DELORAINE COURT EAST AND DELORAINE COURT WEST, 4, 5 AND 6, JAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388609
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Deloraine Court East and Deloraine Court West
- Statutory Address 1:
- DELORAINE COURT EAST AND DELORAINE COURT WEST, 4, 5 AND 6, JAMES 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:
- DELORAINE COURT EAST AND DELORAINE COURT WEST, 4, 5 AND 6, JAMES 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 97724 71949
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE JAMES STREET
1941-1/9/184 (West side)
08/10/53 Nos.4, 5 AND 6
Deloraine Court East (No.5) and
Deloraine Court West (No.6)
(Formerly Listed as:
JAMES STREET
(West side)
Nos.4 AND 5
Deloraine Court)
GV II*
House, now 3 houses. c1300, incorporating a C12 undercroft.
Remodelled early C17 and c1660, with C18 additions and early
C19 alterations. Dressed stone, with ashlar dressings and
plain tile and pantile roofs with various stacks.
EXTERIOR: south range, C18, 2 storeys plus basement and
attics, 5 bays, has plinth and single ridge and 2 gable brick
stacks. East front has to left a wooden doorcase with pediment
and hanging lamp, and a 6-panel door with 2 glazed panels. To
its right, four 12-pane sashes, and above, 5 similar smaller
sashes, the right one with an iron balcony. Above again, 2
segment headed dormers. Basement has a large central sliding
sash, flanked to left by a plain sash and to right by a plain
doorcase with a 6-panel door.
Former great hall, 2 storeys, 4 bays, has brick rear wall and
ridge stacks, and a first floor band. In the centre, two large
15-pane sashes, flanked to left by a fielded 6-panel door in a
plain surround. Above, two through-eaves dormers with coped
gables, each with a 16-pane sash. The left dormer has 2 reset
heads. Beyond, on either side, a single bay projection with
coped gable, 2 storeys, that to left with a 12-pane sash, that
to right with a half-glazed panelled door and a 16-pane sash
above it.
East wing has a rebuilt brick side wall stack and coped south
gable.
East side has an off-centre doorway flanked to right by a
3-light casement, and to left by a larger 3-light casement
with glazing bars. Beyond, a smaller glazing bar sash. Above
the door, a 3-light casement with wooden mullions and leaded
glazing. To its left, 2 segment headed 12-pane sashes. Gables
have irregular fenestration.
INTERIOR has in the west wing an undercroft with three C12
piers with scallop capitals, and a first floor panelled room
dated 1602, with a C12 chimney and late C15 arched fireplace.
C15 queen post truss roof with wind braces. In the south-west
range, a C14 sculptured reredos. Former great hall, ceiled in
c1663, has a collared rafter roof c1300, and at the west end,
remains of a balustraded gallery, early C17. On the ground
floor, an apsidal ended dining room c1800. East wing, reroofed
c1660, has on the ground floor a kitchen fireplace c1400, and
on the first floor, a room with rearranged panelling and
overmantel, early C17.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 512-513; The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Jones S: Lincoln: 1990-: 67-85).
Listing NGR: SK9772471949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486054
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 512-513
Jones, S, The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln, (1990), 67-85
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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