15, MINSTER YARD
15, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388661
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 15, MINSTER YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 15, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388661
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 15, MINSTER YARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, 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:
- 15, 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 97880 71730
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/238 (South side)
08/10/53 No.15
GV II*
House. c1811, incorporating fragments of a medieval building
in the south wall and east gable. Built by William Willson,
joiner. Ashlar, with stone dressings and plain tile roof with
2 rendered gable stacks.
EXTERIOR: plinth, modillion eaves, keystone lintels. Moulded
string course to east gable. 2 storeys plus attics, 3 bays.
North front has a pedimented wooden doorcase with a
part-glazed panelled door and overlight, flanked by single
glazing bar sashes. Above the door, a smaller sash with a
shield above it with the arms of Buckingham. To the left, a
larger sash. To right, a canted wooden oriel window on a stone
bracket, with a dentilled cornice. Above again, to the left, a
hipped dormer with a 2-light casement. East gable has a shield
above, inscribed with a cross.
INTERIOR has a central entrance hall with open well stair with
winders, turned newel, ramped and scrolled handrail, and 2
stick balusters per tread. Main ground floor rooms have
moulded cornices, later C19 wooden fireplaces, and 6-panel
doors. Corresponding first floor rooms have similar cornices
and doors. The right room has a semicircular shell niche with
moulded round arch and shaped shelf, and a mid C19 marble
fireplace. C19 single purlin roof with collars. Stone lined
cellar has early C19 wine bins and reused timber joists.
(Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln: Lincoln:
1987-: 36-39; Report and overall assessment of listable
quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in Lincoln
Minster Close: London: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK9788071730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486122
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (2nd fascicule), (1987), 36-39
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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