Vicars Court And Attached Wall To South

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SK9771NE MINSTER YARD 1941-1/9/242 (South side (off)) 08/10/53 Vicars' Court, Nos.4 and 4A, and attached wall to south (Formerly Listed as: MINSTER YARD (South side) 4 Vicars' Court and attached wall to south)

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West lodging range of the college of Vicars Choral, now 2 houses. Early C14, altered later C14 and C15, restored C17. Altered 1875 by the Revd GT Harvey for his own use. Coursed rubble and brick, with stone dressings and hipped and gabled plain tile roofs, with single gable and ridge stacks, and 2 side wall stacks. First floor band at north end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, 7 bays, L-plan. Windows are mainly casements with mullions and transoms. East front has an off-centre square bay window, 2 storeys, with 4-light window on each floor and a crest in the gable. To left, a single casement, and beyond, a 3-light window. To the right, 2 Tudor arched doorways with hoodmoulds. Between them, 2 single windows and a 3-light window. Beyond, to right, a similar doorway to an entry. Above, single and 2-light windows. To the right, two 2-light pointed arched windows, C19. Above again, a gabled dormer. Attached wall, to left, the remains of the west range, has a string course, 3 corbels, and an incomplete stone coping. Remains of 2 blocked windows, C14, and C19 close boarded door. Above, a single lancet to left, and remains of 3 openings. INTERIOR has a lancet opening with a carved drain in its sill. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 489-491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 40-62; Report and overall assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK9783471716