20, MINSTER YARD
20, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388670
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MINSTER YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 20, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388670
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MINSTER YARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, 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:
- 20, 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 97692 71831
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/256 (West side)
08/10/53 No.20
GV II*
House, now 4 flats. Mid C18, refronted early C19. Brick with
stone and stucco dressings, and plain tile roof with cruciform
ridge stack and single gable stack.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, eaves cornice, coped parapet,
single coped gable. Single bay to right has a first floor
band. 2 storeys plus attics, 4 bays. Symmetrical front, 3
bays, has a wooden doorcase with pilasters and cornice,
6-panel door and fanlight, and above it, a glazing bar sash
with pilaster surround. On either side, a bow window, 2
storeys, with 3 glazing bar sashes on each floor. Single bay,
to right, has a central glazing bar sash on each floor, and a
segment headed close boarded door to right. Above again, 3
segment headed dormers with 2-light casements.
INTERIOR: has a central 5-flight dogleg stair with cut string,
turned newels, ramped and scrolled handrail and 3 vase and
stem balusters per tread. Fielded panelled dado. Early C19
service stair with winders and stick balusters. Winder stair
to attic. Doors have mainly 6 fielded panels. Several C18
2-panel cupboard doors. Right ground floor room has early C19
marble fireplace with pilasters and paterae, and moulded
cornice. Corresponding first floor room has similar cornice
and fireplace. Single purlin roof with collars.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 495; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 103; Report and overall assessment of
listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in
Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK9769271831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486131
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 495
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (2nd fascicule), (1987)
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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