Description

LINCOLN

SK9771NE EASTGATE
1941-1/9/101 (North side)
08/10/53 No.18

GV II

House. Mid C18, with early C19 alterations and rear addition.
Brick with stone dressings and plain tile, pantile and hipped
slate roofs with various brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: rendered plinth, chamfered quoins, moulded eaves
cornice, coped parapet and gables. 2 storeys plus attics; 3
window range. Double range plan. Central Doric portico
covering a 6-panel door, the top 4 glazed, flanked by single
Venetian windows with glazing bars. Above, a central round
headed glazing bar sash, flanked by single Venetian windows,
all with glazing bars and keystones. Above again, 3 segment
headed dormers.
Garden front, asymmetrical, in grey brick with wooden eaves
cornice on brackets. To left, two 15-pane full height sashes,
and to right a French window with sidelights. Above, to left,
two similar 15-pane sashes with balconies and wrought-iron
railings. To right, a smaller 16-pane sash with a blank panel
above it. All these openings have brick flat arches. Beyond,
on either side, a ramped coped wall with a round arched
doorway. Behind these, 2 storey red brick side wings.
INTERIOR has central hallway leading to spinal corridor, with
3 moulded elliptical arches with keystones. Ground floor has
to right a dining room with moulded cornice and mid C19 marble
fireplace. Kitchen, to left, refitted late C20. Both rooms
have fielded 6-panel doors with moulded surrounds. Cellar has
brick elliptical vault and stone wine bins and winder stairs.
Drawing room and adjoining sitting room, at rear, have fielded
6-panel doors, moulded cornices and ceiling bosses.
Drawing room has 2 large sashes with shutters and a Classical
style wooden fireplace. Sitting room has a C19 painted slate
fireplace.
Wooden dogleg staircase, 4 flights, has an ornamented string,
turned newel, 2 vase and stem balusters per tread, and a
hardwood handrail. Panelled dado.
First floor landing has fielded 6-panel doors in moulded
surrounds, and a coved oval skylight under a glazed cupola.
Ballroom, at rear, has a moulded cornice and an oval ceiling
panel in Adamesque style. 2 large windows with shutters. Mid
C19 marble fireplace. Bedrooms have fielded 6-panel doors.
Attics have C18 plank and panelled doors. Clasp purlin roof
with collars, largely renewed mid C20.

(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 515).

Listing NGR: SK9795171932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668046

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)