WIG AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE (NUMBER 29)

WIG AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE (NUMBER 29), 28, 29 AND 30, STEEP HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388783
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: WIG AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE (NUMBER 29)
Statutory Address:: WIG AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE (NUMBER 29), 28, 29 AND 30, STEEP HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388783
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: WIG AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE (NUMBER 29)
Statutory Address 1:: WIG AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE (NUMBER 29), 28, 29 AND 30, STEEP HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WIG AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE (NUMBER 29), 28, 29 AND 30, STEEP HILL

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 97620 71767

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE STEEP HILL 1941-1/9/353 (West side) 02/10/69 Nos.28, 29 AND 30 Wig and Mitre Public House (No.29)

GV II

Three 2-bay tenements, one with an open hall, now a restaurant and 2 shops. Early and late C14, remodelled C17 and altered and refronted C18 and C19. Restored late C20. Timber framed, with brick fronts and plain tile and pantile roofs. 2 storeys plus attics, 6 bays. L-plan. Slightly off-centre wooden shopfront with cornice, C19, with splayed doorway flanked by single windows. To left, a plainer shopfront with a glazing bar window, and to its left a wooden doorcase with pilasters. To right, a larger shopfront with off-centre margin-glazed door and 3 windows under a cornice. Above, to left, 2 early C19 shallow bow windows. To right, 2 segment headed plain sashes, C19. Above again, 2 segment headed dormers with a casement and a sliding sash. INTERIOR has considerable remains of the timber structure including in the front range a complete partition wall between Nos 29 and 30 with gypsum plaster nogging, several bay posts and 2 crown-post-and-collar-purlin roof trusses. Between the front range of No.29 and the former open hall, an incomplete stud wall with a curved brace. The former open hall at the rear of No.29 has a south wall partly rebuilt in coursed rubble, early C17, retaining a close studded section with reed and plaster nogging. North wall rebuilt in brick C19. Central brick stack, early C17. North of the stack, an arch brace to a tie beam. Single clasp purlin roof, largely of reused timber, replacing a collar purlin roof, with reused joists for an inserted floor. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 518; Jones SR: Four Minster Houses: Lincoln: 1974-: 42-52).

Listing NGR: SK9762071767

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Legacy System number:: 486244
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jones, S R , Four Minster Houses: Lincoln, (1974), 45-52
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 518

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.