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Atherstone Place, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Location
(53°14′6″N, 0°32′15″W)
Lincoln
SK 977 719
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Lincolnshire
now Lincolnshire
  • Thomas E. Russo
  • Thomas E. Russo
13 July 1996

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Feature Sets
Description

Atherstone Place is a medieval hall-house, now 12 Eastgate, Lincoln. It was formerly the hall of a larger building. It originally dates from the 13thc but includes a reset 12thc doorway, on the ground floor of the front facade, and it was altered in the early 16thc., and a floor inserted and the ground floor completely remodelled in the 17thc. In the 19thc the roof was raised and the W gable rebuilt.

History

The medieval hall-house was renovated in the early sixteenth century by Dean Heneage. There are some reused Gothic elements in the front facade as well as somenineteenth-century Gothic revival forms.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

The doorway is clearly not in its original form. It is unclear whether it ever had a tympanum. but if not, the proportions are unusuallt tall and thin for the date of the carving, which must be no earlier than the 1170s to judge by the waterleaf capital and the form of the imposts. A point-to-point label is rather unusual and it may well be that the voussoirs came from another arch order.

Bibliography

Historic England Listed Building. English Heritage Legacy ID: 485964

  1. N. Pevsner and J. Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1964, 156.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Harmondsworth 1990, 514.