Vicars Court and Attached Wall to South
VICARS COURT AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH, 4 AND 4A, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388686
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Vicars Court and Attached Wall to South
- Statutory Address:
- VICARS COURT AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH, 4 AND 4A, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388686
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Vicars Court and Attached Wall to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICARS COURT AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH, 4 AND 4A, 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:
- VICARS COURT AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH, 4 AND 4A, 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 97834 71716
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/242 (South side (off))
08/10/53 Vicars' Court, Nos.4 and 4A, and
attached wall to south
(Formerly Listed as:
MINSTER YARD
(South side)
4 Vicars' Court and attached wall to
south)
GV I
West lodging range of the college of Vicars Choral, now 2
houses. Early C14, altered later C14 and C15, restored C17.
Altered 1875 by the Revd GT Harvey for his own use. Coursed
rubble and brick, with stone dressings and hipped and gabled
plain tile roofs, with single gable and ridge stacks, and 2
side wall stacks. First floor band at north end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, 7 bays, L-plan. Windows are
mainly casements with mullions and transoms.
East front has an off-centre square bay window, 2 storeys,
with 4-light window on each floor and a crest in the gable. To
left, a single casement, and beyond, a 3-light window. To the
right, 2 Tudor arched doorways with hoodmoulds. Between them,
2 single windows and a 3-light window. Beyond, to right, a
similar doorway to an entry. Above, single and 2-light
windows. To the right, two 2-light pointed arched windows,
C19. Above again, a gabled dormer.
Attached wall, to left, the remains of the west range, has a
string course, 3 corbels, and an incomplete stone coping.
Remains of 2 blocked windows, C14, and C19 close boarded door.
Above, a single lancet to left, and remains of 3 openings.
INTERIOR has a lancet opening with a carved drain in its sill.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 489-491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses
in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 40-62; Report and overall
assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular
properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK9783471716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 489-491
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (2nd fascicule), (1987), 40-62
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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