Cathedral School Boarding House
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE, 18, JAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388613
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral School Boarding House
- Statutory Address:
- CATHEDRAL SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE, 18, JAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388613
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral School Boarding House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHEDRAL SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE, 18, JAMES STREET
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:
- CATHEDRAL SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE, 18, JAMES 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 97766 71976
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE JAMES STREET
1941-1/9/188 (East side)
08/10/53 No.18
Cathedral School Boarding House
(Formerly Listed as:
JAMES STREET
(East side)
No.8
Cathedral school boarding house)
GV II
Formerly known as: Greystones JAMES STREET.
House, formerly part of a larger complex including Nos 12 and
13 Eastgate, qv, now a school boarding house. C13 and C17,
with C18 and C19 alterations. Restored c1980. Coursed rubble
and brick, with plain tile roofs with 2 gable and 2 ridge
stacks. 2 storeys plus attics, 6 bays. L-plan. West front, to
James Street, has to left a panelled door in a moulded
surround with hood on brackets. To its right, two 3-light
casements with wooden lintels. Above, a sliding sash, and to
its right, 4 early C20 casements. To right again, a restored
timber framed gatehouse with rendered nogging. Plain opening,
and above it, a 3-light casement. Rear wing, 6 bays, has to
south an off-centre chamfered arched doorway and above it, a
C13 pointed arched doorway, now a window. To the left, a C18
door and beyond, a C17 window with wooden mullions, then a
cross casement. Above them, similar windows. To the right, 2
bays with late C20 fenestration.
INTERIOR: rear wing has C13 strutted crown post roof with
spine beam and collars. North wall has a medieval fireplace
hood on brackets, with joggled lintel. To its left, a single
blocked lancet.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 514; The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln:
Jones S: Lincoln: 1990-: 105-118).
Listing NGR: SK9776671976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486058
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 514
Jones, S, The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln, (1990), 105-118
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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