Wig And Mitre Public House (Number 29)

The Wig and Mitre Public House, located at number 29 Steep Hill in Lincoln, is a historic building consisting of three two-bay tenements. Originally constructed in the early and late 14th century, it underwent remodeling in the 17th century and further alterations and refronting in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building was restored in the late 20th century. It features a timber frame with brick fronts and roofs made of plain tiles and pantiles.

The structure is two storeys tall with attics and has an L-plan layout with six bays. The wooden shopfront, dating from the 19th century, is slightly off-centre and includes a cornice, a splayed doorway, and single windows on either side. To the left is a simpler shopfront with a glazing bar window and a wooden doorcase with pilasters. To the right, a larger shopfront features an off-centre margin-glazed door and three windows under a cornice. Above this, there are two early 19th-century shallow bow windows on the left and two segment-headed plain sash windows on the right. The upper section also includes two segment-headed dormers, one with a casement and the other with a sliding sash.

Inside, the building retains significant elements of its timber structure, including a complete partition wall between numbers 29 and 30, which features gypsum plaster nogging, several bay posts, and two crown-post-and-collar-purlin roof trusses. There is an incomplete stud wall with a curved brace between the front range of number 29 and the former open hall. The open hall at the rear has a south wall that is partly rebuilt in coursed rubble from the early 17th century, retaining a close-studded section with reed and plaster nogging. The north wall was rebuilt in brick during the 19th century, and there is a central brick stack from the early 17th century. North of the stack, an arch brace supports a tie beam. The roof features a single clasp purlin design, largely made of reused timber, which replaced an earlier collar purlin roof, and includes reused joists for an inserted floor.