Doughtys Oil Mill and Attached Gatehouse and Grain Store

DOUGHTYS OIL MILL AND ATTACHED GATEHOUSE AND GRAIN STORE, WATERSIDE SOUTH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388826
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Doughtys Oil Mill and Attached Gatehouse and Grain Store
Statutory Address:
DOUGHTYS OIL MILL AND ATTACHED GATEHOUSE AND GRAIN STORE, WATERSIDE SOUTH
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388826
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Doughtys Oil Mill and Attached Gatehouse and Grain Store
Statutory Address 1:
DOUGHTYS OIL MILL AND ATTACHED GATEHOUSE AND GRAIN STORE, WATERSIDE SOUTH

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DOUGHTYS OIL MILL AND ATTACHED GATEHOUSE AND GRAIN STORE, WATERSIDE SOUTH

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 97849 71100

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771SE WATERSIDE SOUTH
1941-1/12/396 Doughty's Oil Mill and attached
02/10/69 gatehouse and grain store

II

Former oil mill, attached gatehouse and grain store, now an
engineering works. Dated 1863, and late C19, with C20
alterations. Gault brick, with brick and stone dressings and
slate roof. Baroque Revival style.
EXTERIOR: channelled rusticated ground floor, eaves cornices,
coped parapets, pedimented gables. Windows are iron glazing
bar casements, those to the ground floor round headed, the
remainder segment headed.
Oil mill, 4 storeys, 5 bays, has a recessed centre rising
above the remainder, flanked by 2-bay wings, all defined by
pilasters. Central segment headed archway with quadrant jambs
and spandrel panels inscribed "Doughty's Oil Mill". Above, a
corniced projection with a datestone, 1863. Above again, a
narrow vertical recess with a window on each floor.
Flanking the archway, 2 windows to the right, and a pair of
panelled doors with fanlight and a window to the left. Above,
on either side, 2 windows on each floor.
Gatehouse, to the left, has a pedimented centre with angle
pilasters and a panelled parapet. In the centre, a pair of
double doors. Above and in front, cutting through the
pediment, a corrugated iron hoist enclosure, mid C20.
Grain store, to left again, 6 storeys, 3 bays, has rusticated
pilasters, deep cornices to the 2 topmost floors, and a higher
pedimented gable with scroll brackets. Ground floor has 3
windows. Above, a full height central recess with round head
and multiple keystones. On 3 floors, hoist doors, and above
them, a round opening with multiple keystones. Above again, an
altered window. To the right, a single window on each floor.
To the left, the windows are blocked, and a full-height grain
elevator is attached.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 523).



Listing NGR: SK9784971100

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
486287
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 523

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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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