Nip In Cottage And Eastfield

SE 9600-9700 REDBOURNE HIGH STREET (east side)

21/62 Nip In Cottage and Eastfield 6.11.67 (formerly listed as Pair of Cottages opposite Manor Cottages)

GV II

Pair of houses. Mid-late C18 with later alterations. Probably for Carter Estate. Late C19 additions to left and rear of no special interest. Squared limestone with limestone ashlar dressings and red brick stacks. Pantile roof. Classical style. T-shaped on plan: each house has 2 rooms and entrance hall to front and single room to rear wing. Section to left (Eastfield) incorporated in C19 house and shop. 2 storeys, 6 bays; symmetrical. 2 central pedimented bays break forward; entrances to second and fifth bays flanked by single windows. To right (Nip In Cottage): C20 half-glazed door and 2-light casements. To left: panelled door and 4-pane sashes, that to left in blocked C19 opening with timber lintel. Ashlar first-floor band. First floor: blind window panels above entrances; similar casements to right, sashes to left. All openings (except ground floor left) are original, with flat arches; projecting sills to windows. All openings to Eastfield boarded-up at time of resurvey. Raised eaves band and coved ashlar cornice. Blind lunette with sill in tympanum. Roof hipped to left. Central axial stack, ridge end stack to left, C19-C20 end stack to right. Perhaps originally almshouses. Drawing by C Nattes, 1795, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.

Listing NGR: SE9728500044