Greenstone House and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railing is a Grade II listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1953. House, college. 2 related planning applications.
Greenstone House and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railing
- WRENN ID
- mired-cloister-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1953
- Type
- House, college
- Address
- Greenstone House and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railing, 4, Greestone Place, LN2 1PP
- OS grid reference
- SK 979 716
- Coordinates
- 53.23302, -0.5341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greestone House, now a college of Further Education, along with its attached forecourt wall and railing, dates primarily from the early 18th century, incorporating elements of a late 13th-century building and featuring additions and alterations around 1860. The construction is of coursed and squared rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs are covered in plain tiles, with three side wall and two gable stacks. One coped gable has kneelers.
The house is arranged as a two-storey plus attic, five-bay by four-bay L-plan. The main south front features a Doric doorcase with a pediment and overlight, flanked to the left by three 12-pane sashes and to the right by a 19th-century triple sash window. Above, there are four 12-pane sashes to the left and a single sash to the right. A triple sash is positioned between the floors. The single sashes have keystones, and the triple sashes have wooden lintels. The west front has four 12-pane sashes on each floor, along with four segment-headed dormers in the attic. The south gable has irregular 19th-century window openings. The interior remains uninspected.
Attached to the house is a forecourt wall built of brick with an ashlar coping. It is topped with an 18th-century wrought-iron spearhead railing, including a segment-headed gateway and a grotesque mask in the overthrow. The railing is believed to have been sourced from the dismantled Church of St Peter at Arches around 1936.
Local climate
Greenstone House and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railing 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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