23, MINSTER YARD
23, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388673
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 23, MINSTER YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 23, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388673
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 23, MINSTER YARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, 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:
- 23, 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 97713 71854
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/259 (West side)
08/10/53 No.23
GV II*
House. Early C18, with mid C19 alterations. Brick, with stone
and stucco dressings and plain tile roof with 2 gable stacks.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, first floor band, eaves cornice,
coped gable and parapet, rendered angle pilaster, tumbled
north-east gable. 2 storeys plus attics, 4 bays.
Off-centre porch, C19, with cornice. Moulded wooden doorcase
with cornice on brackets, and part-glazed panelled door. To
right, a flat roofed square bay window with 2 plain sashes. To
left, 2 sashes, and above, 4 sashes, all with glazing bars and
splayed keystone lintels. Above, 2 segment headed dormers with
2-light casements.
INTERIOR has a central dogleg staircase, mid C18, 4 flights,
with cut string, turned newels, ramped and scrolled handrail,
and 2 vase and stem balusters per tread. Ground floor front
room to left has full height panelling, C18, with dado and
dentilled cornice. Matching overmantel to replica Classical
fireplace, flanked by elliptical arched niches with pilasters.
Corresponding room to right has slate fireplace with stone
corbels, mid C19. First floor room, to left, has 2 walls with
reused framed panelling, C17, and marble fireplace, mid C19,
flanked by elliptical arches. Moulded cornice. Several
panelled doors, mid C18 and early C19.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 495; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 107; Report and overall assessment of
listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in
Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK9771371854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486134
- 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), 107
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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