Lincoln Central Station And Footbridge And Platform Building And Yard Walls

Lincoln Central Station, a railway station built in 1848, with later 19th and 20th century alterations, was likely designed by Joseph Cubitt or JH Taylor of London for the Great Northern Railway Company. The station is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and slate roofs, incorporating six ridge and eight side wall stacks, and displays a Tudor revival style.

The exterior features a chamfered plinth and quoins, shouldered coped gables, a coped parapet to the north front. Windows are mainly casements with stone mullions, transoms, and hoodmoulds. The main block is two storeys and six bays, with a tower to the east, a three-stage tower, and a single-storey range to the west. The north front has a four-bay centre with Tudor arched doorways flanked by single windows, all beneath a hipped glazed canopy. Above these are four windows. Gabled wings flank the centre; one has a 20th-century doorway and a canted oriel window above, while the other has a four-light and three-light window above. The south side, facing the platform, has a full-width valanced canopy dating to the 20th century, with regular fenestration, square headed doors, and eight glazing bar sashes above.

The tower has two buttresses to the east, a chamfered string course, and a projecting crenellated parapet with square corner turrets. A steep-pitched pyramidal roof is topped with raking louvred dormers on each side. Four-centred arched openings are present on the south and east sides, with the opening on the south side blocked. Above this is a cross casement to the south, and above that, single lancets on three sides and two to the south. The single-storey range to the west has a hipped louvred roof ventilator. On the north side is an off-centre segmental pointed carriage opening with gates, flanked by three-light windows; to the right is a double-gabled range with two plain sashes in each gable.

A single arched lattice girder footbridge, constructed of wrought iron, connects the platforms, with stairs at each end. The southern platform building also features a valanced canopy.

External features include a cast-iron railing on a yellow brick and ashlar plinth, approximately 45 meters long, to the west. A yard wall, approximately 35 meters long, with slab coping and three gateways with square piers runs to the north-east. A curved wall with concrete coping, extending approximately 100 meters eastwards along St Mary's Road, terminates in steps flanked by similar walls and copings.