Lincoln Prison Entrance Buildings And Walls

The listed buildings comprise the entrance buildings and walls to Lincoln Prison, constructed between 1869 and 1872. The work was carried out by Frederick Peck of London, in a crenellated Gothic Revival style. The buildings are primarily brick with stone dressings and slate roofs.

The gate lodge is a single-storey barbican with a chamfered and moulded central archway containing a dummy portcullis, flanked by octagonal towers with slits and cross windows. A moulded recess in the gable above contains the Royal Arms. To the right of the gate lodge is the former Governor's house, a two- and three-storey L-plan structure. A square tower rises from the south-west corner, with a moulded arched doorway on the ground floor, a single lancet window above, and a three-light window above that. A crenellated canted bay window with four lights and further two-light windows on each floor are also present. A set-back wing extends to the left, and another single-storey corridor features a barred lancet window flanked by cross windows. The former gatekeeper’s house, to the left of the gate lodge, is a two-storey L-plan structure with a porch, a pointed arched doorway with hoodmould and a projecting wing with two-light windows. A single-storey corridor features a lancet window flanked by cross windows. The former Chief Warder’s house is a T-plan design with an off-centre wing, a set-back porch, a pointed arched doorway with hoodmould, a single lancet above, and a set-back left wing, each with a lancet window on each floor.

The buildings are surrounded by 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 and encloses a parallelogram-shaped area with rounded corners.