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Latitude: 53.2298 / 53°13'47"N
Longitude: -0.5371 / 0°32'13"W
OS Eastings: 497749
OS Northings: 371303
OS Grid: SK977713
Mapcode National: GBR FMQ.H0R
Mapcode Global: WHGJ5.Q2FT
Plus Code: 9C5X6FH7+W5
Entry Name: Former Drill Hall and Adjoining House
Listing Date: 15 August 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1388471
English Heritage Legacy ID: 485916
ID on this website: 101388471
Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2
County: Lincolnshire
District: Lincoln
Electoral Ward/Division: Abbey
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lincoln
Traditional County: Lincolnshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire
Church of England Parish: Lincoln St Swithin
Church of England Diocese: Lincoln
Tagged with: Drill hall Music venue
LINCOLN
SK9771SE BROADGATE
1941-1/12/50 (West side)
15/08/73 Former Drill Hall and adjoining
house
II
Former drill hall and adjoining house, now club premises and
house. Dated 1890. Possibly by William Watkins. Paid for by
Joseph Ruston. Red brick with stone dressings. Roof not
visible. Crenellated Gothic style. Battered plinth, moulded
sill band, machicolations, crenellated parapet. 3 storey
central tower with round corner turrets, flanked by set back
wings, 2 storeys, 3 bays, with square corner turrets. Central
Tudor arched doorway with hoodmould and cross beamed doors.
Above it, a canted stone oriel window, 3 lights with transoms,
with the Royal arms and regimental badges. Above again, 2
pointed windows flanked by crosslets in the turrets. Each wing
has a range of pointed windows with cast-iron octagonal
glazing bars.
INTERIOR: hall has piers with zigzag capitals, and segmental
pointed arches all round. Good arch braced rolled steel roof
with traceried spandrels containing the City arms. Arch at
west end contains a wreathed and corniced war memorial tablet,
c1920. Dogleg stone stair with ringed iron balusters.
Datestone, 1890.
Listing NGR: SK9774971303
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
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