Lincoln Constitutional Club

LINCOLN

SK9771SE SILVER STREET 1941-1/12/334 (South side) 08/07/91 No.18 Lincoln Constitutional Club

GV II

Constitutional club. 1895. Designed by William Watkins and built by Otter & Co of Lincoln. Brick with terracotta dressings and slate roofs. Flemish Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: sill bands, enriched first and second floor cornices, eaves band, shaped coped gables. 2 storeys plus basement and attics. First floor windows are mainly glazing bar sashes. Ground floor and attic windows are mainly casements with mullions and transoms. Front to Silver Street, 6 bays, has a projecting entrance bay to left, with a door and a flanking window, both with round heads. Above, an angled oriel window, 2 storeys, with 2 storeys, and above it, a 4-light window. Bowed north-east corner, to left, has 3 windows, cornice and balustrade. Above, a hexagonal stair tower with moulded cornice and 3 sashes. Ramped coped parapet with 3 oval windows. Above again, a set back pargeted drum topped with a leaded dome. To the right, a 2 storey range, 4 bays, with coped parapet and gables, and a frieze of national crests between the windows. 4 ground floor windows, and 3 above. To the right, a round headed doorway with a window above it. East front, to Broadgate, 3 bays, has a basement with a square headed door and 4 iron framed windows. Above, a central 3-light mullioned window flanked by single oval lights. Beyond, 2 round headed windows. Above, a canted central bay with pediment, flanked by single gabled wings, each with 2 sashes. Above again, each wing has a 5-light window. INTERIOR has an elaborate cantilever stone spiral stair with landings, cast-iron balustrade and ramped and scrolled handrail. First floor ballroom has a ribbed semicircular vault. Ground floor billiard room has original fitted benches and tables. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 521; Curl JS: The Victorian Facade (W Watkins & Son, Architects, Lincoln): Lincoln: 1990-: 42).

Listing NGR: SK9778571364