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LINCOLN SK9771NE GREESTONE PLACE 1941-1/9/128 (East side) 08/10/53 No.4 Greestone House and attached forecourt wall and railing GV II House, now a college of Further Education, and attached forecourt wall and railing. Early C17 and late C18, incorporating part of a late C13 house. Additions and alterations c1860. Coursed and squared rubble with stone dressings and plain tile roofs with 3 side wall and 2 gable stacks. Single coped gable with kneelers. 2 storeys plus attics, 5 x 4 bays. L-plan. Main south front has a Doric doorcase with pediment and overlight, flanked to left by three 12-pane sashes and to right by a C19 triple sash. Above, four 12-pane sashes to left, and a further sash to right. Below it, between floors, a triple sash. The single sashes have keystones, the triple sashes wooden lintels. West front has four 12-pane sashes on each floor and above, 4 segment headed dormers. South gable has irregular C19 fenestration. INTERIOR not inspected. Attached forecourt wall, brick with ashlar coping, is topped with C18 wrought-iron spearhead railing with a segment headed gateway and a grotesque mask in the overthrow. The railing is said to have come from the Church of St Peter at Arches, dismantled c1936. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 24-27). Listing NGR: SK9794471665

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