Tower and Sections of Close Wall Bordering Grounds of Number 5 Pottergate
TOWER AND SECTIONS OF CLOSE WALL BORDERING GROUNDS OF NUMBER 5 POTTERGATE, WINNOWSTY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388831
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Tower and Sections of Close Wall Bordering Grounds of Number 5 Pottergate
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER AND SECTIONS OF CLOSE WALL BORDERING GROUNDS OF NUMBER 5 POTTERGATE, WINNOWSTY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388831
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tower and Sections of Close Wall Bordering Grounds of Number 5 Pottergate
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER AND SECTIONS OF CLOSE WALL BORDERING GROUNDS OF NUMBER 5 POTTERGATE, WINNOWSTY LANE
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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.
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:
- TOWER AND SECTIONS OF CLOSE WALL BORDERING GROUNDS OF NUMBER 5 POTTERGATE, WINNOWSTY LANE
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 98075 71830
Details
LINCOLN
SK9871NW WINNOWSTY LANE
1941-1/10/401 (South West side)
08/10/53 Tower and sections of Close wall
bordering grounds of No.5 Pottergate
(Formerly Listed as:
MINSTER YARD
(East side)
Close wall tower and section of
adjoining wall to south and west)
GV I
Tower and adjoining sections of the Close wall. 1285-1327.
Coursed squared stone and ashlar, with a gabled tile coping to
the west section. Multangular tower, approx. 5.5m high, with a
crenellated parapet and a crosslet in each side. To
south-east, a wall approx. 15m long, with a crenellated
parapet and one crosslet. To west, a wall approx. 25m long
with, to left, a board door under a stone lintel. Timber
samples from the tower have an estimated felling date range
from 1249 to 1284.
Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No.114.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 484; Report and overall assessment of listable
quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in Lincoln
Minster Close: London: 1987-; Nottingham University Tree-Ring
Dating Laboratory: Initial Report: 02/03/90).
Listing NGR: SK9807571830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486292
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 484
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Other
Nottingham University Tree Ring Dating Laboratory: Initial Report 02/03/90, (1990)
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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