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SK9771NE
1941-1/9/378
08/10/53 LINCOLN
STEEP HILL
(West Side)
No 1
GV
I
SK9771NE
1941-1/9/378
08/10/53 LINCOLN
THE STRAIT
(West Side)
No 15
Jew's house GV
I Includes: No.1 STEEP HILL.
House, originally with a first floor hall and shops below, now
a restaurant and salon. c1170, with C18 and C19 alterations.
Dressed stone and brick, with pantile roof and two C18 brick
gable stacks.
EXTERIOR: moulded sill band and enriched impost band to first
floor. 2 storeys plus attics, 3 bays. Off-centre doorway, C12,
with interlace ornament and stiff-leaf capitals to missing
shafts. Above it, a shallow chimney breast to the hall. To
left, a wooden shopfront, early C19, in an altered opening,
with central half-glazed door flanked by single glazing bar
bay windows with shutters, under a moulded cornice. To right,
a half-glazed door, C19, with overlight, flanked to right by a
glazing bar shop window with hood, all set in an altered
opening. Above, two altered C12 2-light windows with heavily
moulded heads, that to left with the remains of shafts. Each
now has a C18 glazing bar sash. In the centre, a similar sash.
Above again, to right, a segment headed dormer with a C20
casement.
INTERIOR has in the rear wall a C12 chamfered doorway with
imposts. In the north wall, a restored chamfered segment
headed recess on each floor.
This building is an exceptionally important example of C12
domestic architecture: Lincolnshire has most of the surviving
examples.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 519). Listing NGR: SK9763371566
Legacy
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Legacy System number:
486271
Legacy System:
LBS
Sources
Books and journals Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 519
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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