Police Station and Gaol and Adjoining House is a Grade II listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1953. Police station, gaol, house.

Police Station and Gaol and Adjoining House

WRENN ID
tenth-paling-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lincoln
Constituency
Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1953
Type
Police station, gaol, house
OS grid reference
SK 978 714
Coordinates
53.23116, -0.53532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former police station and gaol, along with the adjoining house, possibly used as a Police Superintendent's residence, is located on Lindum Road in Lincoln. Built in 1805 by William Hayward, with mid-19th century additions, the building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features hipped slate roofs.

The structure has two and three storeys, plus a basement, and consists of 13 bays. The east side showcases a three-bay central section with stone bands at each floor level and at the eaves, along with pedimented gables and two side wall stacks and two gable stacks. The ground floor includes a single-storey semicircular projection with a parapet and seven iron-framed casements. Above this, there are three glazing bar sashes with segmental heads, followed by three similar sashes with fanlights. Flanking the central section are hipped wings that rise two storeys and contain five bays, featuring ranges of segment-headed windows, with the upper windows being smaller.

On the south end facing Monks' Road, there is a near-central porch with a parapet and a heavily rusticated round-headed stone doorcase, which includes a multiple keystone and a half-glazed door. To the left of the porch are two sashes, and above and behind are two large round-headed iron glazing bar casements. The adjoining house to the right is two storeys high, featuring a first-floor band and bracketed eaves. It has a canted bay window on the left with three glazing bar sashes on each floor, and to the right, there is a single sash on each floor. In the return angle, there is a panelled door flanked by single sashes, with two sashes above. All ground floor sashes are topped with hoods on brackets.

Inside, the building features a central stairwell with a cantilevered stone stair, brick vaulted corridors, and cells with segment-headed doors.

Local climate

Police Station and Gaol and Adjoining House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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