Vicars Court is a Grade I listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1953. Houses. 5 related planning applications.
Vicars Court
- WRENN ID
- noble-cloister-rye
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1953
- Type
- Houses
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vicars' Court, now comprising three houses, served as the former lodgings for the Vicars Choral. The building largely dates to the mid-14th century, with a significant reroofing in around 1670, and further alterations in the 18th century, the mid-19th century, and the 20th century. Constructed from ashlar and dressed stone with ashlar dressings, it has a plain tile roof.
The exterior presents a stepped, chamfered string course and consists of a main range in blocks of four and six bays, with a single-bay addition of the 19th century at the south end. Fenestration is largely 19th century. The northern block features a central 14th-century doorway with a hoodmould and mask stops, flanked to the left by a four-centred arched window also with a hoodmould, and a small pointed arched casement to the right. Two flat-headed mullioned windows with hoodmoulds are also present. Above, two segmental pointed casements are found to the left, and two flat-headed mullioned windows to the right, all with hoodmoulds. Further above, two gabled dormers have been restored.
The southern range includes a central flat-headed doorway with a keystone and a shield above it, along with a glazing bar sash window and a plain sash. A flat-headed window with three pointed arched lights and a moulded doorway are also present, alongside a single gabled buttress. Renewed glazing bar casements occupy the upper level, along with a large gabled dormer to the left and two smaller dormers to the right. The 19th-century addition features two 2-light windows with flat heads, pointed arched lights, and hoodmoulds, and above, a central canted wooden oriel window on a shaped bracket.
The rear elevation exhibits four brick and stone external buttressed stacks, and a garderobe tower with a late 19th-century hipped oversailing top stage. Internally, several original garderobes remain, primarily on the ground floor. A medieval ground floor ceiling is present at the north end, characterized by transverse chamfered beams resting on double corbels. The lobby between houses 2A and 2 preserves its stone side walls. Roofs were renewed in approximately 1670. The building represents a notable early example of collegiate lodgings.
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Nearby listed buildings
- 1, Greestone Place
- 2, Greestone Place
- Gatehouse and Gateway Tower to Vicars' Court
- 15, Minster Yard
- Outer East Gateway to Bishops Palace
- Vicars Court and Priests Vicars Houses
- Vicars Court and Attached Wall to South
- Cantilupe Chantry South
- Former Tithe Barn to Vicar's Court
- Inner East Gateway to Bishops Palace