Former Headmasters House and Dormitory Block at St Josephs School
FORMER HEADMASTERS HOUSE AND DORMITORY BLOCK AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL, UPPER LINDUM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388820
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Headmasters House and Dormitory Block at St Josephs School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER HEADMASTERS HOUSE AND DORMITORY BLOCK AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL, UPPER LINDUM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388820
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Headmasters House and Dormitory Block at St Josephs School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER HEADMASTERS HOUSE AND DORMITORY BLOCK AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL, UPPER LINDUM STREET
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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:
- FORMER HEADMASTERS HOUSE AND DORMITORY BLOCK AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL, UPPER LINDUM 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 98166 71728
Details
LINCOLN
SK9871NW UPPER LINDUM STREET
1941-1/10/390 (East side)
08/07/91 Former Headmaster's house and
dormitory block at St Joseph's
School
II
Former headmaster's house and dormitory block. Dated 1861. Red
brick, with yellow brick and stone dressings and hipped slate
roofs, some of them patterned. 3 side wall, single ridge and
single gable stacks. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, diaper work and bands, cogged
eaves. 2 and 3 storeys, 3 bays. L-plan.
South front has an off-centre projection with a canted bay
window with traceried lights and parapet. Above it, a 3-light
window with stone mullions. In the return angle, to right, a
square tower, 3 storeys, with an angle buttress and square
spire with finial. Segmental pointed doorcase with hoodmould
and shafts, and above it, a window. Above again, an inscribed
datestone, 1861, with hoodmould. Beyond, to right, a flat
headed 3-light window with pointed arched lights, and above
it, a 2-light mullioned window.
West front has a central wing with a canted bay window.
East side has buttresses and three 2-light pointed arched
windows, the central one altered to form a door. Above, 3
mullioned windows, and above again, a central 2-light pointed
arched window under a bargeboarded gable. On either side, a
single mullioned window. In the return angle to right, a
polygonal stair turret with a pointed arched doorway and slit
lights, topped with an octagonal spire.
Dormitory block, 3 bays, has buttresses. 2-light pointed
arched windows below, and mullioned windows on each floor
above.
INTERIOR has an open well stair with landings and foliage
wrought-iron balustrade. Dormitory block has an open well
cantilever spiral staircase with stick balusters and ramped
handrail.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 521).
Listing NGR: SK9816671728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486281
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 521
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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