3 AND 3A, POTTERGATE

3 AND 3A, POTTERGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1388735
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1953
Statutory Address:
3 AND 3A, POTTERGATE
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Date:
2005-12-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1388735
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1953
Statutory Address 1:
3 AND 3A, POTTERGATE

Location

Statutory Address:
3 AND 3A, POTTERGATE

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 98000 71732

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE POTTERGATE
1941-1/9/308 (East side)
08/10/53 Nos.3 AND 3A

GV II*

House, now 2 houses. C17, incorporating medieval walling,
remodelled early C18, with late C18 and C19 alterations.
Coursed rubble and brick, with plain tile roofs and 2 gable
and single ridge stacks.
First floor band, wooden eaves cornice, brick and stone coped
gables. 2 storeys plus attics, 6 bays. L-plan.
South front has a near central half-glazed door, C19, with
moulded surround, flanked on either side by 2 glazing bar
sashes with segmental heads. To right, a half-glazed door with
overlight, C19. Above, 2 glazing bar sashes, C19, with iron
Gothic balconies. To their right, 4 smaller glazing bar
sashes. Above again, 3 gabled dormers with 2-light casements.
West front has a central square bay window, 2 storeys, with
cornice, with a tripartite glazing bar sash on each floor.
Above to the left, a casement, C19.
INTERIOR has a room with full height fielded panelling,
enriched cornice, and fireplace with fluted Ionic piers and
panelled overmantel. Dogleg stair with shaped string, ramped
and scrolled handrail, and 3 vase and stem balusters per
tread.
George Boole, mathematician, lived here in the early 1840s.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Lincoln: 1984-: 96-101; Report and overall assessment
of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in
Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).




Listing NGR: SK9800071732

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
486196
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 491
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (1st fascicule), (1984), 96-101

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