County Assembly Rooms
COUNTY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 76, BAILGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388454
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- County Assembly Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 76, BAILGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388454
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- County Assembly Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 76, BAILGATE
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.
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:
- COUNTY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 76, BAILGATE
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 97671 71980
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE BAILGATE
1941-1/9/32 (East side)
08/10/53 No.76
County Assembly Rooms
(Formerly Listed as:
BAILGATE
(East side)
No.76
Masonic Temple)
GV II*
County Assembly Rooms, now in part a Masonic Temple. 1744,
with front addition and vestibule 1908 by William Watkins of
Lincoln. Brick and ashlar with stone dressings and hipped
pantile and slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: front, Baroque Revival style, has first floor band,
string course, moulded dentilled pediment and eaves,
rusticated quoins, parapet and ball finials. Central
rusticated square porch with cornice. Doorway with enriched
keystone and pair of wrought-iron gates, under a segmental
pediment containing a wreathed roundel. On either side, a
round-headed window in a moulded surround, with frieze and
segmental pediment. Above, a central Venetian window with
glazing bars. C18 hall has cogged eaves.
INTERIOR: C18 ballroom has full height Ionic pilasters,
modillion cornice and panelled plaster ceiling. In each bay, a
window with entablature, and above it, a smaller window with a
coved architrave. All the windows have glazing bars. West end
has a central pedimented doorcase, and the east end 2 similar
smaller doorcases, all with fielded panelled doors. South side
has a central fireplace with entablature and pedimented
overmantel, fronted by a life-size female figure. Opposite is
a semicircular recess with a round arch and keystone.
Adjoining service room to east has an elliptical arched
plaster vault. Other C18 rooms have friezes, modillion
cornices, C19 fireplaces and fielded panelled doors.
1908 addition has an elliptical vestibule with a saucer dome
on pendentives. Scrolled datestone over east door. Hall has
Ionic pilasters, enriched cross beamed ceiling and domed oval
skylight with enriched borders. Doorcases have bracketed
friezes.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 516; Curl JS: The Victorian Facade (W Watkins &
Son, Architects, Lincoln): Lincoln: 1990-: 46).
Listing NGR: SK9767171980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 516
Curl, J S, The Victorian Facade (W Watkins & Son, Architect, Lincoln), (1990), 46
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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