Description

LINCOLN

SK9771NE POTTERGATE
1941-1/9/310 (East side)
08/10/53 No.5
St Mary's School

GV I

House, now a school. C14 and C15, remodelled c1760, raised and
extended early C19, with rear addition c1910. Dressed stone
and brick, with stone dressings and gabled and hipped slate
roofs. 4 brick side wall stacks, plus a medieval round side
wall stack.
EXTERIOR: chamfered string course to main block, chamfered
plinth to south end, single coped gable.
Main block, 3 storeys, 5 bays, double range plan, has 2-storey
wings. Slightly projecting off-centre bay with a chamfered
stone doorcase, 6-panel door and overlight. To its left, 2
plain sashes, and beyond, 2 larger glazing bar sashes. To the
right, a glazing bar sash. Above the door, and to its right,
single margin light sashes. To the left, a smaller sash, and
beyond, 2 larger sashes with glazing bars. All these windows
have splayed lintels. Above again, 3 glazing bar sashes, and
an off-centre blank panel.
Left wing, c1820, single bay, has parapet. Single glazing bar
sash, and above it, a 2-light casement.
Right wing has parapet, and 2 glazing bar sashes with joggled
lintels on each floor. In the parapet, 2 blank panels. Above
again, an off-centre gabled dormer, late C19.
INTERIOR has an outstanding and rare Palmyrene plaster
ceiling, mid C18, probably by Sir William Chambers. Panelled
entrance hall with mid C18 cantilever wooden dogleg stair with
landings, vase and stem balusters (3 per tread), and ramped
scrolled handrail. The landing is carried on a moulded beam
and Doric piers. Segmental vaulted cellar, C15, with chamfered
ribs.
From c1400 till c1726. this building formed a single property
with No.4 Pottergate (qv).
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 491-492; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses
in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1984-: 74-95; Report and overall
assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular
properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK9798371758

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526739

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