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LINCOLN SK9771SE BROADGATE 1941-1/12/50 (West side) 15/08/73 Former Drill Hall and adjoining house II Former drill hall and adjoining house, now club premises and house. Dated 1890. Possibly by William Watkins. Paid for by Joseph Ruston. Red brick with stone dressings. Roof not visible. Crenellated Gothic style. Battered plinth, moulded sill band, machicolations, crenellated parapet. 3 storey central tower with round corner turrets, flanked by set back wings, 2 storeys, 3 bays, with square corner turrets. Central Tudor arched doorway with hoodmould and cross beamed doors. Above it, a canted stone oriel window, 3 lights with transoms, with the Royal arms and regimental badges. Above again, 2 pointed windows flanked by crosslets in the turrets. Each wing has a range of pointed windows with cast-iron octagonal glazing bars. INTERIOR: hall has piers with zigzag capitals, and segmental pointed arches all round. Good arch braced rolled steel roof with traceried spandrels containing the City arms. Arch at west end contains a wreathed and corniced war memorial tablet, c1920. Dogleg stone stair with ringed iron balusters. Datestone, 1890. Listing NGR: SK9774971303

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