2, Exchequergate

LINCOLN

SK9771NE EXCHEQUERGATE 1941-1/9/117 (South side) 02/10/69 No.2

GV II*

House, now a shop and offices, incorporating a late C15 timber framed partition and stone south wall. Late C15, rebuilt 1834-48. Brick and coursed rubble with stucco front, and gabled and hipped slate and pantile roofs with a gable stack. Plinth and first floor band. 3 storeys, 2 bays. L-plan. To left, a renewed mid C19 wooden shopfront with a central doorway flanked by single windows, all under a fascia and cornice. Beyond, to left, a C20 half-glazed door. To right, a C19 shop window flanked by single doorways with keystones, that to left altered to form a showcase. Above, 2 canted wooden oriel windows with plain sashes. Above again, 3 plain sashes. INTERIOR has a close studded partition wall with an arch brace to the end post. Late C15 moulded wall plate and spine beam. This building incorporates significant remains of a range of shop units forming the south side of the Exchequergate barbican in medieval times. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 484; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 92-101).

Listing NGR: SK9765771801