Nip In Cottage And Eastfield

Nip In Cottage and Eastfield is a pair of houses dating from the mid to late 18th century, with some later alterations. They were likely built for the Carter Estate. The left and rear sections were extended in the late 19th century, but these additions are not of special interest. The buildings are constructed of squared limestone with limestone ashlar dressings and feature red brick stacks, topped with a pantile roof.

The design is classical in style and T-shaped in plan, with each house having two rooms and an entrance hall at the front, along with a single room in the rear wing. The structure has two storeys and six bays, arranged symmetrically. The two central bays, which are pedimented, project forward. The entrances are located in the second and fifth bays, each flanked by a single window.

On the right, Nip In Cottage features a 20th-century half-glazed door and two-light casements. On the left, Eastfield has a panelled door and four-pane sash windows, with the left window in a blocked 19th-century opening that has a timber lintel. An ashlar band runs along the first floor, which also has blind window panels above the entrances. The first floor windows include similar casements on the right and sashes on the left. Most openings, except for the ground floor left window, are original and have flat arches with projecting sills. At the time of resurvey, all openings to Eastfield were boarded up.

The building features a raised eaves band and a coved ashlar cornice, along with a blind lunette with a sill in the tympanum. The roof is hipped to the left, with a central axial stack, a ridge end stack to the left, and a 19th to 20th-century end stack to the right. It is suggested that the buildings may have originally served as almshouses. A drawing by C Nattes from 1795 is part of the Banks Collection at Lincoln City Library.