Graveley Place and Adjoining Garden Wall
GRAVELEY PLACE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALL, 12, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388657
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Graveley Place and Adjoining Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- GRAVELEY PLACE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALL, 12, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388657
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Graveley Place and Adjoining Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAVELEY PLACE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALL, 12, MINSTER YARD
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:
- GRAVELEY PLACE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALL, 12, MINSTER YARD
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 97967 71777
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/234 (East side)
08/10/53 No.12
Graveley Place and adjoining garden
wall
GV II*
House and adjoining garden wall. Early C14, late C17 and late
C19. Coursed and squared rubble and brick, with stone
dressings and plain tile roof. External front wall stone stack
with 2 square brick flues set diagonally, and cruciform brick
ridge stack. Plinth and quoins.
2 storeys plus attics, 3 bays. L-plan. C19 fenestration. Front
has a slightly off-centre moulded wood doorcase with cornice
and part-glazed 6-panel door, set in a former carriage
entrance with a wooden lintel and two C14 mask corbels. To its
left, a blocked doorway, C14. Beyond, on either side, a stone
mullioned window, 3 lights. Above, two cusped stone mullioned
windows, 3 lights, and to right, a similar window, 2 lights.
Above again, 2 gabled dormers with 2-light casements.
INTERIOR has dogleg stair with square newels and stick
balusters, with a winder stair on the second floor. Double
purlin principal rafter roof with wind braces.
Outside, at the rear, north garden wall, c1300, formerly part
of the north range. Coursed squared stone with pantile coping.
Approx. 2m high and 15m long.
The building is named after John Graveley, who lived there
1466-1473.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 492; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Lincoln: 1984-: 66-73).
Listing NGR: SK9796771777
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486118
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 492
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (1st fascicule), (1984), 66-73
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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