Description

LINCOLN

SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/247 (South side)
08/10/53 No.16
Cantilupe Chantry South

GV I

Former house of the priests serving the chantry established by
Nicholas, third Lord Cantilupe, now a house. 1355, extended
1366. Restored and remodelled c1843-1845. Ashlar, with hipped
and gabled slate and pantile roofs with gable, ridge and side
wall stacks. Coped north gable with finial, crenellated
parapet to south.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, 3 bays.
East front has to right a traceried panelled door, C19, in a
C14 surround with hoodmould and mask stops, resited from the
north gable. To its left, two 2-light flat headed windows with
ogee headed lights. Above, 3 similar windows. Above again, two
raking dormers, C19, with 2-light pointed arched windows.
North gable has a hipped stone oriel window on C14 figured
corbels, with C19 tracery. On either side, shields with the
arms of Cantilupe and Zouch. Above, a moulded niche with a
seated figure.
South side has a brick plinth and a corbelled-out truncated
stack. To left, 3 glazing bar sashes on each floor. To right,
2 blocked lancets, and above, a 2-light window with flat head
and ogee headed lights.
INTERIOR remodelled with Gothick style joinery c1845, and
later C19. Main rooms on each floor have flat headed doorcases
with cusped pointed arched panels and quatrefoil paterae, and
doors with 2 cusped pointed arched panels. Ground floor rooms
have moulded plaster cornices and plain friezes. Study has
stone fireplace, and adjoining dining room has Classical style
wooden fireplace, both C19. First floor drawing room has a
frieze of trefoils and pendants, a flat headed recess flanked
by round columns with foliage capitals, and a C19 Classical
style wooden fireplace. Adjoining bedroom has a similar
frieze. Rear stairwell has an arch braced matchboarded roof
with skylights, and a dogleg stair with square newels and
turned balusters, c1870. Cellar under south range has C14
spine beam carried on posts, and C19 wine bins at the east
end.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 489; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 65-73; Report and overall assessment
of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in

Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK9784371738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526671

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)