Lincoln Prison Entrance Buildings And Walls

LINCOLN

SK97SE GREETWELL ROAD 1941-1/2/133 (North side) 15/08/73 Lincoln Prison entrance buildings and walls (Formerly Listed as: GREETWELL GATE (North side) Gate Lodge, attached Governor's, Gatekeeper's......Lincoln Prison)

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Prison gate lodge, and 3 attached staff houses, now officers' quarters and welfare department, garden and boundary walls. 1869-72, with later alterations. By Frederick Peck of London. Brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. Crenellated Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: moulded plinth, first floor band, dentilled eaves band, crenellated parapets, moulded coped gables. Windows have mainly lancet lights with transoms. Gate lodge, single storey, in the form of a barbican, has a chamfered and moulded central archway with a dummy portcullis, flanked by single octagonal towers with slits and crosslets. Above, a moulded recess in the gable with the Royal Arms. Former Governor's house, to right, 2 and 3 storeys, L-plan, has a higher square tower, 3 stages, at the south-west corner, with a moulded arched doorway. Above it, a single lancet, and above again, a 3-light window. To right, a crenellated canted bay window with 4 lights. Above it, a 2-light window on each floor, the upper ones smaller. To left, a set back wing with a 3-light window on each floor. To left again, a single storey corridor with a barred lancet window flanked by single crosslets. Former gatekeeper's house, to left of the gate lodge, 2 storeys, L-plan, has in the return angle a porch with parapet and moulded pointed arched doorway with hoodmould. To right, a projecting wing, with a 2-light window on each floor. To the right, a single storey corridor with a single lancet flanked by crosslets. Former Chief Warder's house, to left again, T-plan, has an off-centre wing with a 2-light window on each floor. To the right, a set back porch, 2 storeys, with a moulded pointed doorway and hoodmould, and above it, a single lancet. Set back left wing has a single lancet on each floor. The buildings flanking the gate lodge have attached curved garden walls with moulded stone coping and capped square piers.

The main boundary wall has a blue brick top section with a ramped half-round coping. The wall encloses a parallelogram-shaped area with rounded corners. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 507-508).

Listing NGR: SK9914771978