Description

LINCOLN

SK9771NE STEEP HILL
1941-1/9/353 (West side)
02/10/69 Nos.28, 29 AND 30
Wig and Mitre Public House (No.29)

GV II

Three 2-bay tenements, one with an open hall, now a restaurant
and 2 shops. Early and late C14, remodelled C17 and altered
and refronted C18 and C19. Restored late C20. Timber framed,
with brick fronts and plain tile and pantile roofs.
2 storeys plus attics, 6 bays. L-plan. Slightly off-centre
wooden shopfront with cornice, C19, with splayed doorway
flanked by single windows. To left, a plainer shopfront with a
glazing bar window, and to its left a wooden doorcase with
pilasters.
To right, a larger shopfront with off-centre margin-glazed
door and 3 windows under a cornice. Above, to left, 2 early
C19 shallow bow windows. To right, 2 segment headed plain
sashes, C19. Above again, 2 segment headed dormers with a
casement and a sliding sash.
INTERIOR has considerable remains of the timber structure
including in the front range a complete partition wall between
Nos 29 and 30 with gypsum plaster nogging, several bay posts
and 2 crown-post-and-collar-purlin roof trusses.
Between the front range of No.29 and the former open hall, an
incomplete stud wall with a curved brace.
The former open hall at the rear of No.29 has a south wall
partly rebuilt in coursed rubble, early C17, retaining a close
studded section with reed and plaster nogging. North wall
rebuilt in brick C19. Central brick stack, early C17. North of
the stack, an arch brace to a tie beam. Single clasp purlin
roof, largely of reused timber, replacing a collar purlin
roof, with reused joists for an inserted floor.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 518; Jones SR: Four Minster Houses: Lincoln:
1974-: 42-52).

Listing NGR: SK9762071767

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668247

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