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LINCOLN SK9771SE WATERSIDE SOUTH 1941-1/12/396 Doughty's Oil Mill and attached 02/10/69 gatehouse and grain store II Former oil mill, attached gatehouse and grain store, now an engineering works. Dated 1863, and late C19, with C20 alterations. Gault brick, with brick and stone dressings and slate roof. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: channelled rusticated ground floor, eaves cornices, coped parapets, pedimented gables. Windows are iron glazing bar casements, those to the ground floor round headed, the remainder segment headed. Oil mill, 4 storeys, 5 bays, has a recessed centre rising above the remainder, flanked by 2-bay wings, all defined by pilasters. Central segment headed archway with quadrant jambs and spandrel panels inscribed "Doughty's Oil Mill". Above, a corniced projection with a datestone, 1863. Above again, a narrow vertical recess with a window on each floor. Flanking the archway, 2 windows to the right, and a pair of panelled doors with fanlight and a window to the left. Above, on either side, 2 windows on each floor. Gatehouse, to the left, has a pedimented centre with angle pilasters and a panelled parapet. In the centre, a pair of double doors. Above and in front, cutting through the pediment, a corrugated iron hoist enclosure, mid C20. Grain store, to left again, 6 storeys, 3 bays, has rusticated pilasters, deep cornices to the 2 topmost floors, and a higher pedimented gable with scroll brackets. Ground floor has 3 windows. Above, a full height central recess with round head and multiple keystones. On 3 floors, hoist doors, and above them, a round opening with multiple keystones. Above again, an altered window. To the right, a single window on each floor. To the left, the windows are blocked, and a full-height grain elevator is attached. INTERIOR not inspected. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 523). Listing NGR: SK9784971100

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