18, Eastgate

LINCOLN

SK9771NE EASTGATE 1941-1/9/101 (North side) 08/10/53 No.18

GV II

House. Mid C18, with early C19 alterations and rear addition. Brick with stone dressings and plain tile, pantile and hipped slate roofs with various brick stacks. EXTERIOR: rendered plinth, chamfered quoins, moulded eaves cornice, coped parapet and gables. 2 storeys plus attics; 3 window range. Double range plan. Central Doric portico covering a 6-panel door, the top 4 glazed, flanked by single Venetian windows with glazing bars. Above, a central round headed glazing bar sash, flanked by single Venetian windows, all with glazing bars and keystones. Above again, 3 segment headed dormers. Garden front, asymmetrical, in grey brick with wooden eaves cornice on brackets. To left, two 15-pane full height sashes, and to right a French window with sidelights. Above, to left, two similar 15-pane sashes with balconies and wrought-iron railings. To right, a smaller 16-pane sash with a blank panel above it. All these openings have brick flat arches. Beyond, on either side, a ramped coped wall with a round arched doorway. Behind these, 2 storey red brick side wings. INTERIOR has central hallway leading to spinal corridor, with 3 moulded elliptical arches with keystones. Ground floor has to right a dining room with moulded cornice and mid C19 marble fireplace. Kitchen, to left, refitted late C20. Both rooms have fielded 6-panel doors with moulded surrounds. Cellar has brick elliptical vault and stone wine bins and winder stairs. Drawing room and adjoining sitting room, at rear, have fielded 6-panel doors, moulded cornices and ceiling bosses. Drawing room has 2 large sashes with shutters and a Classical style wooden fireplace. Sitting room has a C19 painted slate fireplace. Wooden dogleg staircase, 4 flights, has an ornamented string, turned newel, 2 vase and stem balusters per tread, and a hardwood handrail. Panelled dado. First floor landing has fielded 6-panel doors in moulded surrounds, and a coved oval skylight under a glazed cupola. Ballroom, at rear, has a moulded cornice and an oval ceiling panel in Adamesque style. 2 large windows with shutters. Mid C19 marble fireplace. Bedrooms have fielded 6-panel doors. Attics have C18 plank and panelled doors. Clasp purlin roof with collars, largely renewed mid C20.

(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 515).

Listing NGR: SK9795171932