Judges Lodging and Attached Railing is a Grade II* listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1953. Lodging. 5 related planning applications.
Judges Lodging and Attached Railing
- WRENN ID
- night-pediment-crag
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1953
- Type
- Lodging
- Address
- Judges Lodging and Attached Railing, 5, Castle Hill, LN1 3AA
- OS grid reference
- SK 976 718
- Coordinates
- 53.23457, -0.53912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Judges' lodging, built around 1810 by William Hayward, is a notable building located on Castle Hill in Lincoln. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with stone dressings and features a hipped slate roof. The exterior includes a plinth, eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The building is two storeys high and has nine bays, with a projecting pedimented center that consists of three bays. This central section features a stone doorcase with an entablature and two Tuscan columns in antis, along with fielded panelled double doors and a fanlight above. Flanking the door are round-headed niches, and the pediment displays the Royal arms in Coade stone.
The wings of the building each have three glazing bar sashes on both floors, topped with brick flat arches. Inside, the central entrance hall rises to full height and contains a cantilevered wooden open well staircase, which has two stick balusters per tread and a ramped scrolled handrail. The ground floor features a dentilled cornice and a moulded elliptical arched doorway at the rear, leading to double doors with shaped glass panels.
To the right, the dining room includes a chair rail, frieze, moulded cornice, a mid-19th century marble fireplace, and shutters. It also has an elliptical arched recess with a moulded surround and a blank fanlight. The drawing room on the left mirrors this design, featuring panelled wainscot and walls, along with a painted slate fireplace and overmantel mirror. The first-floor landing and bedrooms have moulded cornices and six-panel doors, with the right bedroom showcasing a mid-19th century marble fireplace.
Outside, there is an attached iron railing that has a stepped stone plinth, curved ends, and a central double gate.
Local climate
Judges Lodging and Attached Railing 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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