Description

LINCOLN

SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/242 (South side (off))
08/10/53 Vicars' Court, Nos.4 and 4A, and
attached wall to south
(Formerly Listed as:
MINSTER YARD
(South side)
4 Vicars' Court and attached wall to
south)

GV I

West lodging range of the college of Vicars Choral, now 2
houses. Early C14, altered later C14 and C15, restored C17.
Altered 1875 by the Revd GT Harvey for his own use. Coursed
rubble and brick, with stone dressings and hipped and gabled
plain tile roofs, with single gable and ridge stacks, and 2
side wall stacks. First floor band at north end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, 7 bays, L-plan. Windows are
mainly casements with mullions and transoms.
East front has an off-centre square bay window, 2 storeys,
with 4-light window on each floor and a crest in the gable. To
left, a single casement, and beyond, a 3-light window. To the
right, 2 Tudor arched doorways with hoodmoulds. Between them,
2 single windows and a 3-light window. Beyond, to right, a
similar doorway to an entry. Above, single and 2-light
windows. To the right, two 2-light pointed arched windows,
C19. Above again, a gabled dormer.
Attached wall, to left, the remains of the west range, has a
string course, 3 corbels, and an incomplete stone coping.
Remains of 2 blocked windows, C14, and C19 close boarded door.
Above, a single lancet to left, and remains of 3 openings.
INTERIOR has a lancet opening with a carved drain in its sill.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 489-491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses
in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 40-62; Report and overall
assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular
properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK9783471716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526730

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