Arboretum Lodge, Monks Road, Lincoln
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Arboretum Lodge, Monks Road, Lincoln
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 12 Nov 2010
Grade II Listed gate lodge. With a datestone marked “W HARRISON MAYOR 1872” it was probably designed by Edward Milner and was built by Robert Barker of Sincil Street, Lincoln. It appears to have been the Arboretum Superintendents house until about 1913 when Gentle Smith, gardener appears in directories. It was extended to the rear in 1906. It was restored and extended north to house the Abbey Access Centre (to offer affordable meals and training for local people) by the City Council in 2003-04 as part of a £3m restoration of the arboretum. The arboretum land was given to the abbey of St Mary at York after the Conquest and then acquired by the city after the dissolution of St Marys Abbey in the 1530s. Some sold as building land, Lincoln Corporation purchased 15 acres/6.3877 hectares in 1870 for the laying-out of the Arboretum (extended 1894 now 22 acres). Designed by Edward Milner (1819-1884) it opened on 26th August 1872 at a cost of £4,500 but I’m not clear if that included the lodges.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.230816
Longitude
-0.52839