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LINCOLN
SK9771NE STEEP HILL
1941-1/9/378 (West side)
08/10/53 No.1
GV I
LINCOLN
SK9771NE THE STRAIT
1941-1/9/378 (West side)
08/10/53 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 | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1150 - 1190 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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