Listed Building: TOWER AND SECTIONS OF CLOSE WALL BORDERING GROUNDS OF NUMBER 5 POTTERGATE (1388831)

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Grade I
Authority Department of Culture, Media and Sport
Date assigned 08 October 1953
Date last amended

Description

LINCOLN SK9871NW WINNOWSTY LANE 1941-1/10/401 (South West side) 08/10/53 Tower and sections of Close wall bordering grounds of No.5 Pottergate (Formerly Listed as: MINSTER YARD (East side) Close wall tower and section of adjoining wall to south and west) GV I Tower and adjoining sections of the Close wall. 1285-1327. Coursed squared stone and ashlar, with a gabled tile coping to the west section. Multangular tower, approx. 5.5m high, with a crenellated parapet and a crosslet in each side. To south-east, a wall approx. 15m long, with a crenellated parapet and one crosslet. To west, a wall approx. 25m long with, to left, a board door under a stone lintel. Timber samples from the tower have an estimated felling date range from 1249 to 1284. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No.114. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 484; Report and overall assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-; Nottingham University Tree-Ring Dating Laboratory: Initial Report: 02/03/90). Listing NGR: SK9807571830

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Grid reference SK 98075 71830 (point)
Map sheet SK97SE
District LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Sep 17 2009 4:50PM

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