268, High Street

LINCOLN

SK9771SE HIGH STREET 1941-1/12/162 (East side) 08/10/53 No.268 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) No.268 Halifax Building society)

GV II*

Formerly known as: The Cardinal's Hatte HIGH STREET. Public house, now offices. Late C15, restored 1952. Close studded timber framing with dressed stone and C20 brick underbuild, rendered nogging, plain tile and pantile roofs. 2 jettied floors, the upper one with a billeted bressumer, moulded angle shafts, diagonal braces and coved eaves. High Street front has a central recessed glazed door flanked by single glazing bar windows, all C20. Above, a continuous range of cusped leaded lights and a central square oriel window, 4 lights. Above again, 2 projecting leaded windows, 4 lights, and a replica wrought-iron sign bracket. South side, to Grantham Street, has a framed gable to the left with a central leaded casement on each floor. To the right, a stone rear wing, 3 bays, with C19 and C20 fenestration and a C19 doorcase to the right. INTERIOR not inspected. This building was formerly the Cardinal's Hat Inn, and had a courtyard layout. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 519-520).

Listing NGR: SK9760071482