Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/226 (East side)
08/10/53 No.2
The Priory and attached section of
Close wall
GV I
Hall house, incorporating a tower and part of the Close wall.
C13, C14, remodelled 1664-1670, altered and refenestrated late
C19. Coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings and
plain tile and pantile roofs with an octagonal stone gable
stack, panelled brick ridge stack, and external brick gable
stack to east. Quoins.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, 3 bays. Windows are mainly
C19 casements with wooden mullions and transoms.
West front, double gabled, has a central 3-light window
flanked to left by a cross casement and beyond, a hexagonal
glazed wooden porch. To its left, a chamfered doorway with
hoodmould, C14, now a leaded window. In the return angle, a
doorway, C14. To the right, a 5-light window.
Above, a central window, 3 lights, flanked by single windows,
4 lights. All these have wooden hoodmoulds.
Above again, in each gable, a 3-light window.
South side has two windows, 4 lights, and above, two windows,
3 lights. East side has irregular C19 fenestration.
INTERIOR has in the screens passage a restored traceried
buffet, C14, with quatrefoil lintel, flanked by single
chamfered doorways. Remodelled C17 stair.
Outside, to west, an attached portion of the Close wall,
approx. 5m high and 30m long, with pantile and concrete
coping. Off-centre blocked opening and 3 reset corbels. This
building was used as the residence of major Cathedral
officials.
Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No.114.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 494-495; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses
in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1984-: 23-31).
Listing NGR: SK9795071892
