Description

LINCOLN

SK97SE GREETWELL ROAD
1941-1/2/133 (North side)
15/08/73 Lincoln Prison entrance buildings
and walls
(Formerly Listed as:
GREETWELL GATE
(North side)
Gate Lodge, attached Governor's,
Gatekeeper's......Lincoln Prison)

II

Prison gate lodge, and 3 attached staff houses, now officers'
quarters and welfare department, garden and boundary walls.
1869-72, with later alterations. By Frederick Peck of London.
Brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. Crenellated Gothic
Revival style.
EXTERIOR: moulded plinth, first floor band, dentilled eaves
band, crenellated parapets, moulded coped gables. Windows have
mainly lancet lights with transoms. Gate lodge, single storey,
in the form of a barbican, has a chamfered and moulded central
archway with a dummy portcullis, flanked by single octagonal
towers with slits and crosslets. Above, a moulded recess in
the gable with the Royal Arms.
Former Governor's house, to right, 2 and 3 storeys, L-plan,
has a higher square tower, 3 stages, at the south-west corner,
with a moulded arched doorway. Above it, a single lancet, and
above again, a 3-light window. To right, a crenellated canted
bay window with 4 lights. Above it, a 2-light window on each
floor, the upper ones smaller. To left, a set back wing with a
3-light window on each floor. To left again, a single storey
corridor with a barred lancet window flanked by single
crosslets. Former gatekeeper's house, to left of the gate
lodge, 2 storeys, L-plan, has in the return angle a porch with
parapet and moulded pointed arched doorway with hoodmould. To
right, a projecting wing, with a 2-light window on each floor.
To the right, a single storey corridor with a single lancet
flanked by crosslets.
Former Chief Warder's house, to left again, T-plan, has an
off-centre wing with a 2-light window on each floor. To the
right, a set back porch, 2 storeys, with a moulded pointed
doorway and hoodmould, and above it, a single lancet. Set back
left wing has a single lancet on each floor.
The buildings flanking the gate lodge have attached curved
garden walls with moulded stone coping and capped square
piers.

The main boundary wall has a blue brick top section with a
ramped half-round coping. The wall encloses a
parallelogram-shaped area with rounded corners.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 507-508).

Listing NGR: SK9914771978

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668070

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version