The Cafe and Lodge the Arboretum

THE CAFE AND LODGE THE ARBORETUM, MONKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388698
Date first listed:
14-May-1997
List Entry Name:
The Cafe and Lodge the Arboretum
Statutory Address:
THE CAFE AND LODGE THE ARBORETUM, MONKS ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388698
Date first listed:
14-May-1997
List Entry Name:
The Cafe and Lodge the Arboretum
Statutory Address 1:
THE CAFE AND LODGE THE ARBORETUM, MONKS ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
THE CAFE AND LODGE THE ARBORETUM, MONKS ROAD

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 98330 71440

Details

LINCOLN

SK983714SW MONKS ROAD
1941-1/13/463 The Cafe and Lodge, The Arboretum
14/05/97

GV II

Gate lodge and refreshment room. 1872. Probably designed by
Edward Milner.
MATERIALS: dressed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and red
brick rendered and timber-framed. Welsh slate roof. Ashlar
plinth and quoins.
EXTERIOR: lodge. 2 storey with 3 ashlar stacks. Ashlar gabled
porch to right, gives access to both buildings, with pointed
arch entrance supported on single columns with carved
stiff-leaf capitals. Inner doorway has 4-panel part glazed
door. Abouve and behind single 3-light casement. To left
4-light chamfered mullion window with moulded hood and 4 plain
sashes with horns. Above decorative timber-framing with
central triangular headed plain sash window and gable with
decorative bafge borarding and tall finial. West front has
projecting gabled wing with central doorway flanked by 2
single light windows in chamfered surrounds, above
timber-framing with projecting square section by wooden eaves
brackets. South front has very large central window with
pointed top, 3-light with deep chamfered ashlar mullions and
transoms, lower lights have plain sashes with horns.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This building was built to serve the Arboretum which was laid
out between 1869 and 1972, to the designs of the improtant
Victorian garden designer Edward Milner.

Listing NGR: SK9833071440

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
486159
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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