Lincoln Central Station and Footbridge and Platform Building and Yard Walls
LINCOLN CENTRAL STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE AND PLATFORM BUILDING AND YARD WALLS, ST MARYS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388752
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Central Station and Footbridge and Platform Building and Yard Walls
- Statutory Address:
- LINCOLN CENTRAL STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE AND PLATFORM BUILDING AND YARD WALLS, ST MARYS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388752
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Central Station and Footbridge and Platform Building and Yard Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- LINCOLN CENTRAL STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE AND PLATFORM BUILDING AND YARD WALLS, ST MARYS 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:
- LINCOLN CENTRAL STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE AND PLATFORM BUILDING AND YARD WALLS, ST MARYS 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 97571 70879
Details
LINCOLN
SK97SE ST MARY'S STREET
1941-1/2/322 (South side)
15/08/73 Lincoln Central Station, footbridge,
platform building, and yard walls
II
Railway station with attached footbridge, platform building,
yard walls and railing. 1848, with later C19 and C20
alterations. Possibly by Joseph Cubitt or JH Taylor of London
for the Great Northern Railway Co. Yellow brick, with stone
dressings and slate roofs, with 6 ridge and 8 side wall
stacks. Tudor revival style.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and quoins, shouldered coped
gables, coped parapet to north front. Window are mainly
casements with stone mullions and transoms and hoodmoulds.
Main block, 2 storeys, 6 bays, has a tower to east, 3 stages,
and a single storey range to west. North front has a 4 bay
centre with 2 Tudor arched doorways flanked by single windows,
all beneath a hipped glazed canopy, 4 bays. Above, 4 windows.
On either side, a gabled wing, that to left with a C20
doorway, and above, a canted oriel window. That to right has a
4-light window, and a 3-light window above.
South side, towards the platform, has a full width valanced
canopy, C20. Regular fenestration and square headed doors.
Above, 8 glazing bar sashes.
Tower has 2 buttresses to east, chamfered string course, and
projecting crenellated parapet with square corner turrets.
Steep pitched pyramidal roof with a raking louvred dormer on
each side. South and east sides have four-centred arched
openings, that to south blocked. Above, a cross casement to
south. Above again, a single lancet on 3 sides, and 2 to
south.
Single storey range, to west, has a hipped louvred roof
ventilator. North side has an off-centre segmental pointed
carriage opening with gates, flanked by 3-light windows. To
the right, a double gabled range with 2 plain sashes in each
gable.
Single arched lattice girder footbridge, wrought-iron, has
stairs at each end. Southern platform building has a valanced
canopy.
Outside, to west, a cast-iron railing on a yellow brick and
ashlar plinth, approx. 45m long. To north-east, a yard wall
with slab coping and 3 gateways with square piers, approx. 35m
long. To east, a curved wall with concrete coping, running
eastwards along St Mary's Road approx. 100m, ending in a
flight of steps flanked by similar walls and copings.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 511-512).
Listing NGR: SK9757170879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 511-512
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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