Police Station and Gaol and Adjoining House
2, MONKS ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388629
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station and Gaol and Adjoining House
- Statutory Address:
- 2, MONKS ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2005-03-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/12458/14
- Rights:
- © Mr David Brown. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388629
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station and Gaol and Adjoining House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, MONKS ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- POLICE STATION AND GAOL AND ADJOINING HOUSE, LINDUM ROAD
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:
- 2, MONKS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE STATION AND GAOL AND ADJOINING HOUSE, LINDUM ROAD
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 97867 71456
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771SE LINDUM ROAD
1941-1/12/209 (East side)
08/10/53 Police station and gaol and
adjoining house
(Formerly Listed as:
LINDUM ROAD & MONKS'ROAD
(East side)
Former Police station and gaol and
adjoining No.2 Monks' Road)
GV II
Formerly known as: Police Station LINDUM ROAD & MONKS' ROAD.
Includes: No.2 MONKS' ROAD.
Former police station and gaol, and adjoining house, possibly
a Police Superintendent's house, now offices and laboratories.
1805, by William Hayward. Mid C19 additions. Brick with stone
dressings and hipped slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys plus basement, 13 bays.
East side has a 3 bay centre with stone bands to each floor
and to eaves, pedimented gables, and 2 side wall and 2 gable
stacks. Ground floor has a single storey semicircular
projection with parapet and 7 iron framed casements. Above, 3
glazing bar sashes with segmental heads, and above again, 3
similar sashes with fanlights. On either side, hipped wings, 2
storeys, 5 bays, with ranges of segment headed windows, those
above being smaller.
South end, to Monks' Road, has a near-central porch with
parapet and a heavily rusticated round headed stone doorcase
with multiple keystone and half-glazed door. To its left, 2
sashes. Above and behind, 2 large round headed iron glazing
bar casements.
To the right, adjoining house, 2 storeys, with first floor
band and bracketed eaves. To left, a canted bay window, 2
storeys, with 3 glazing bar sashes on each floor. To the
right, a single sash on each floor. In the return angle, a
panelled door flanked by single sashes and above, 2 sashes.
All the ground floor sashes have hoods on brackets.
INTERIOR has central stairwell with cantilevered stone stair,
brick vaulted corridors, and cells with segment headed doors.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 520).
LINCOLN
SK9771SE MONKS' ROAD
1941-1/12/209 (North side)
08/10/53 No.2
GV II
Listing NGR: SK9786771456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486074
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 08-Jun-2026 at 05:03:43.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.