Wig And Mitre Public House (Number 29)

LINCOLN

SK9771NE STEEP HILL 1941-1/9/353 (West side) 02/10/69 Nos.28, 29 AND 30 Wig and Mitre Public House (No.29)

GV II

Three 2-bay tenements, one with an open hall, now a restaurant and 2 shops. Early and late C14, remodelled C17 and altered and refronted C18 and C19. Restored late C20. Timber framed, with brick fronts and plain tile and pantile roofs. 2 storeys plus attics, 6 bays. L-plan. Slightly off-centre wooden shopfront with cornice, C19, with splayed doorway flanked by single windows. To left, a plainer shopfront with a glazing bar window, and to its left a wooden doorcase with pilasters. To right, a larger shopfront with off-centre margin-glazed door and 3 windows under a cornice. Above, to left, 2 early C19 shallow bow windows. To right, 2 segment headed plain sashes, C19. Above again, 2 segment headed dormers with a casement and a sliding sash. INTERIOR has considerable remains of the timber structure including in the front range a complete partition wall between Nos 29 and 30 with gypsum plaster nogging, several bay posts and 2 crown-post-and-collar-purlin roof trusses. Between the front range of No.29 and the former open hall, an incomplete stud wall with a curved brace. The former open hall at the rear of No.29 has a south wall partly rebuilt in coursed rubble, early C17, retaining a close studded section with reed and plaster nogging. North wall rebuilt in brick C19. Central brick stack, early C17. North of the stack, an arch brace to a tie beam. Single clasp purlin roof, largely of reused timber, replacing a collar purlin roof, with reused joists for an inserted floor. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 518; Jones SR: Four Minster Houses: Lincoln: 1974-: 42-52).

Listing NGR: SK9762071767