Lincolnshire Motor Company Showrooms is a Grade II listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 2000. Showroom.
Lincolnshire Motor Company Showrooms
- WRENN ID
- old-pillar-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 2000
- Type
- Showroom
- Address
- Lincolnshire Motor Company Showrooms, Lucy Tower Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 972 712
- Coordinates
- 53.2293, -0.54501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lincolnshire Motor Company Showrooms, located on Lucy Tower Street and Brayford Wharf North in Lincoln, were designed in 1958 and built in 1959 by architect Sam Scorer, with engineering by Dr. K Hajnal Konyi. Originally serving as motor showrooms and a garage, the building features a reinforced concrete construction for the main garage area, while the circular corner block has a steel frame and concrete floors, with a curtain wall facing Lucy Tower Street and a flat roof.
The rear section, now a bookstore, retains its reinforced concrete hyperbolic paraboloid shell roof, which is supported by columns to create a clear, unobstructed space. This area consists of four units, each measuring 50 feet square and 2.5 inches thick, with thickened edges forming the supporting framework. The lower points of the shell are supported by reinforced concrete columns, and the high points at each corner are stabilized against wind by steel columns.
The building is organized into three main parts: the rear garage, which has seen little alteration and is now a bookstore, and the former showroom facing Lucy Tower Street, which includes a circular front showroom and office, now functioning as a branch library. The Lincolnshire Motor Company Showrooms are noted for being a good example of an elegant hyperbolic paraboloid shell concrete building, with its structure largely intact, and it has adapted well to its current use.
Local climate
Lincolnshire Motor Company Showrooms receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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