46 AND 47, STEEP HILL (See details for further address information)

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SK9771NE CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE 1941-1/9/365 (North side) 08/10/53 No.1

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SK9771NE STEEP HILL 1941-1/9/365 (East side) 08/10/53 Nos.46 AND 47

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Formerly known as: Aaron the Jew's House STEEP HILL. Includes: No.1 CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE. Also known as: Norman House STEEP HILL. House, now a house and 2 shops. c1170, with late C18 and C19 alterations. Restored 1878 and C20. Dressed stone and brick, with pantile roof and single brick gable and valley stacks. Brick coped gables, gable band, wooden gutter on iron brackets. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus basement and garrets, 4 bays. Double range plan. Front has an off-centre round headed doorway with single shafts and crocket capitals, and a truncated gabled hood on mask corbels. To the left, a part-glazed panelled door in a moulded frame, C18, and to its left a shallow bow window with shutters. Beyond, a small casement, partly blocked. To right, a shop window, C19, with pilaster surround and cornice. Above the door, and to its left, a glazing bar sash with a wooden lintel. Beyond, to right, a keel moulded recess with hoodmould, containing a mainly renewed double round headed window with enriched sill band. Beyond, to left, a 2-light sliding sash with wooden lintel. South front, to Christ Hospital Terrace, has 2 gables. To left, a pair of doors with wooden lintel. To right, a plain C18 wooden doorcase with a 6-panel door, and a single glazing bar sash. Above, to left, a glazing bar sash with a wooden lintel in an altered opening. To right, a smaller glazing bar sash. Above again, a glazing bar sash to left, in an altered opening with wooden lintel, and to right, 2 similar windows. In each gable peak, a segment headed blocked window. INTERIOR has a C12 chamfered doorway and tunnel vaulted basement. Dogleg stair with winder, fielded panelled doors and hob grate, C18. This building is particularly important as an example of C12 domestic architecture: Lincolnshire has most of the surviving examples. Although it was formerly known as Aaron the Jew's house, its connection with him is erroneous. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 518).

Listing NGR: SK9764371732