Lincoln Constitutional Club
LINCOLN CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 18, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388763
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Constitutional Club
- Statutory Address:
- LINCOLN CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 18, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388763
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Constitutional Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- LINCOLN CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 18, SILVER STREET
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:
- LINCOLN CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 18, SILVER STREET
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 97785 71364
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771SE SILVER STREET
1941-1/12/334 (South side)
08/07/91 No.18
Lincoln Constitutional Club
GV II
Constitutional club. 1895. Designed by William Watkins and
built by Otter & Co of Lincoln. Brick with terracotta
dressings and slate roofs. Flemish Renaissance Revival style.
EXTERIOR: sill bands, enriched first and second floor
cornices, eaves band, shaped coped gables. 2 storeys plus
basement and attics. First floor windows are mainly glazing
bar sashes. Ground floor and attic windows are mainly
casements with mullions and transoms.
Front to Silver Street, 6 bays, has a projecting entrance bay
to left, with a door and a flanking window, both with round
heads. Above, an angled oriel window, 2 storeys, with 2
storeys, and above it, a 4-light window.
Bowed north-east corner, to left, has 3 windows, cornice and
balustrade. Above, a hexagonal stair tower with moulded
cornice and 3 sashes. Ramped coped parapet with 3 oval
windows. Above again, a set back pargeted drum topped with a
leaded dome.
To the right, a 2 storey range, 4 bays, with coped parapet and
gables, and a frieze of national crests between the windows. 4
ground floor windows, and 3 above. To the right, a round
headed doorway with a window above it.
East front, to Broadgate, 3 bays, has a basement with a square
headed door and 4 iron framed windows. Above, a central
3-light mullioned window flanked by single oval lights.
Beyond, 2 round headed windows. Above, a canted central bay
with pediment, flanked by single gabled wings, each with 2
sashes. Above again, each wing has a 5-light window.
INTERIOR has an elaborate cantilever stone spiral stair with
landings, cast-iron balustrade and ramped and scrolled
handrail. First floor ballroom has a ribbed semicircular
vault. Ground floor billiard room has original fitted benches
and tables.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 521; Curl JS: The Victorian Facade (W Watkins &
Son, Architects, Lincoln): Lincoln: 1990-: 42).
Listing NGR: SK9778571364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486224
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 521
Curl, J S, The Victorian Facade (W Watkins & Son, Architect, Lincoln), (1990), 42
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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