The Witch and the Wardrobe Public House and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1973. Public house.
The Witch and the Wardrobe Public House and Attached Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- sheer-chancel-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Witch and the Wardrobe Public House and Attached Outbuildings, 21, Waterside North
- OS grid reference
- SK 976 711
- Coordinates
- 53.22846, -0.53791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Witch and the Wardrobe Public House is a building that dates back to the early 16th century, with additions from the 17th century and alterations made in the early and mid-19th century. It underwent restoration in the late 20th century. The structure is built from coursed rubble and features close studded timber framing with plastered nogging, a stucco front, and roofs that are hipped and gabled with plain tiles. It has two gable stacks, a single ridge stack, and side wall stacks.
The building has two storeys and three bays, arranged in an L-plan. The south front features a central 19th-century Tudor arched doorway with an overlight, flanked by two 5-light windows that have stone mullions and transoms. Above the doorway, there is a central bow window flanked by single glazing bar sashes, all dating from the early 19th century. The west side has various blocked openings and a jettied first floor to the right.
To the left of the public house are the attached outbuildings, which have two blocked arches and a blocked ventilator. There is also a reset quatrefoil vent above, to the left. The jettied east gable displays exposed timber framing.
Inside, the building retains the close-studded gable from the 16th century, an oak winder stair, and a stud wall with rendered nogging. The ground floor rooms feature 19th-century vine trail plaster borders on the ceilings.
Local climate
The Witch and the Wardrobe Public House and Attached Outbuildings 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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